Great story….very informative, this was first I time I had ever heard of the bloggers and am very interested/excited to see more now…..

Posted by SUE from Cole Harbour on 12/01/07 at 06:58 PM ET

Congrats to Paul and Bill as they were figured prominently in this HNiC piece. Getting singled out by Ron MacLean on CBC’s flagship sports telecast is huge!Well done to everyone.

Posted by Lyle Richardson from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 12/01/07 at 07:07 PM ET

It was a good piece, I thought - very well-balanced.  Anyone who didn’t see it would find it worthwhile to check it out when it’s available online.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 12/01/07 at 07:15 PM ET

Thanks for the mention, Paul.  We were glad to participate in the HNiC piece.  Any idea when it will be available online?  DirecTV turned off the feed between the 2pm and 7pm game.  We’ve received the pregame show other times, but of course, not when we really wanted to see it.

Posted by Gustafsson from Washington, DC on 12/01/07 at 08:33 PM ET

Wow… that was fast…

Ask and ye shall receive, eh?

Thanks!

Posted by Gustafsson from Washington, DC on 12/01/07 at 08:34 PM ET

And a shout-out to the Washington hockey bloggers, who with Ted Leonsis’ help are blazing a trail for the rest of us with their fine work.

Posted by Lyle Richardson from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 12/01/07 at 09:09 PM ET

Lyle,

Thanks for the shout-out.

We are VERY FORTUNATE to have Ted as the owner of our team.  We are amazed with the access we have just as much as everyone else is.

They’ve placed a lot of trust in the bloggers they’ve credentialed and I believe the responsibility has not been taken lightly by any of us.

We hope the model in place in Washington spreads to other cities as well (not really counting that Islander Blog Box stuff).

Posted by Gustafsson from Washington, DC on 12/01/07 at 10:02 PM ET

Very cool guys…the Capitals, Islanders and Flyers deserve a lot of praise for their efforts. Keep blurring those lines and bringing the information that others can’t.

Posted by Mike on 12/01/07 at 10:24 PM ET

It’s always so weird when you see what Internet people look like.  I always imagined Bill as a crusty old salt, possibly with a long beard.  Instead, he looks about but my age but is clearly much older based on his length of service in the navy.

Great stuff and pretty cool for everyone who got a little love from the Mother Corp.

Posted by mudcrutch79 on 12/01/07 at 10:44 PM ET

That was a great piece and I expected something else from the CBC.

It’s nice that there is an owner out there that is very forward thinking when it comes to the hockey blogs out there and it’s my hope that the rest of the league follows suit.

The cool part is there are faces with a couple of names now…

Posted by PB from Chandler, AZ on 12/01/07 at 11:08 PM ET

Thanks for highlighting this, Paul- it was fun to do and great to see the results.
I got a kick out of the part where they were trying to pronounce your name…

Posted by DC Sports Chick on 12/02/07 at 12:21 PM ET

Yeah, how do you pronounce your name, Paul?

Posted by Lyle Richardson from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 12/02/07 at 01:44 PM ET

Koo-Kla!

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 12/02/07 at 01:48 PM ET

Thought so.

Posted by Lyle Richardson from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 12/02/07 at 02:32 PM ET

This may be the longest conversation about sports blogging in the MSM without mention of either “pajamas” or “parents’ basement.”

Kudos to everyone who was mentioned. For those of us that have been part of the alt hockey media since it was a bunch of knuckleheads ranting on Geocities pages, pieces like the one on CBC and that Edmonton Journal piece a few days back are long overdue and hopefully a signal of a changing tide.

And it warms my heart to see Tom Benjamin get a mention; ironic, considering I’m pretty sure his froze over sometime during the lockout.

Posted by Greg Wyshynski from D.C. on 12/02/07 at 03:16 PM ET

Geez Greg, now you have gone and did it.  I will have the Homeland Security team following my every step here on KK..
Yes, it was a great piece and shouts go out to every blogger that was mentioned.
CBC did their homework on this, Ron pulling up some of the sites live was a great touch and thank god Alanah didn’t have one of her “Nude Hockey Players” stories up at the top!

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 12/02/07 at 03:21 PM ET

Great for you guys.  A job well done and a step in the right direction.

Posted by Tony from Mid-Michigan on 12/02/07 at 03:29 PM ET

I am new to the site. The piece on CBC caught my interest. What was the site Ron McLean was using to link to all the blogs?

Posted by Ken from London, ON on 12/02/07 at 04:39 PM ET

Ken, I believe it was The Puck Stops Here.

KK also has a blogroll that can be found here.  The link to that area is found on the left sidebar.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 12/02/07 at 04:43 PM ET

Thanks, Paul. Looks like there are a lot of them out there.

Posted by Ken from London, ON on 12/02/07 at 04:53 PM ET

I am a little late, but I knew congrats were in order.  Watching that live, I started to get pissed that they were ignoring the best blog out there.

Then when they closed the segment, featuring KK…well, all is well.

It may have restored a little faith in hockey broadcast features, and for once no highlights of ‘Sid the Kid’

Paul, come clean here, did you go out and purchase more bandwidth right after that segment?

Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 12/02/07 at 05:12 PM ET

I am new to the site. The piece on CBC caught my interest. What was the site Ron McLean was using to link to all the blogs?

Actually, I think McLean started from Tom Benjamin’s site (He said the two of them were kindred spirits with respect to officiating), and then highlighted the Puck Stops Here and others via Tom’s blogroll, but he said you could find hockey blogs using any search engine.

But pretty much any site with a blogroll will lead to some interesting other sites, and then some others from those, and you can get lost in the eighty bazillion hockey pages.  There are so many outlooks and viewpoints and attitudes, everything from statistical analysis to historical research to bad photoshops to blatant homerism, for one team or the NHL as a whole, or even college and European leagues, that there is a blog for everyone.  And if there isn’t one for you, you can always start one yourself.  They sprout up like weeds.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 12/02/07 at 07:16 PM ET

VERY COOL!

Congrats to all involved.  It was truly a great piece and very encouraging to see those folks speak on camera about the sites they talk of often off camera. The sites spoken of are widely read in the hockey world, but rarely discussed in the media.  You can see the walls starting to come down thanks to all the hard and tireless work of writers like Lyle, Eric, Paul, Greg and James.

And of course credit goes to the Ted, the Caps and Isles who have taken the taboo public and teams like Philly, Buffalo, San Jose, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Nashville, St, Louis who along with others have been allowing access to internet writers in the post-lockout NHL.

For you all to get recognized by HNIC is no small deal, but most overdue.

congrats and cheers,

Ek

Posted by eklund on 12/02/07 at 07:53 PM ET

Dwayne, the last email you sent me stated you and your attorney will thinking of starting a lawsuit against me.
Now you come here and take the approach you did, which I also happen to see is the same thing, word for word, written on Mirtle’s blog.
You first need to come clean about what you have done to the readers here at KK, then deal with the threats you have made against me.
Then, and only then, can the walls start to come down.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 12/02/07 at 08:18 PM ET

I am jealous and this issue is really starting to give me an inferiority complex. Why wasn’t I mentioned in that story? I get the idea that they pointed out the Canadian sites, but please.. I have been doing this for 5 years now. I started hockey blogging! Surely, I would have come up on the search somewhere that Ron MacLean did.

Thank you to Eliot Friedman for doing this story.

Posted by Michael Fedor from Pittsburgh, PA on 12/05/07 at 12:29 AM ET