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by Paul on 02/28/07 at 08:05 AM ET
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from Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star,
While TSN was reporting that Buffalo goaltender Martin Biron had been traded, the cast of dozens at Rogers Sportsnet were showing viewers live shots of some game-show eye candy getting their makeup, the Hanson brothers performing their 30-year-old shtick and the back of blogger Eklund’s head as he provided the first in a series of often obvious and even more often erroneous rumours....
In fact, the most entertaining part of Sportsnet’s ``deadline bash” wasn’t the balloons, the Hansons or the table hockey games. It was Eklund, who fell just short of naming every NHL player in trade rumours…
1:04 p.m. Eklund reports more rumours, this time citing ``really, really good sources.”
2:08 p.m. Eklund reports that Edmonton has signed Ryan Smyth to a long-term deal.
3 p.m. Eklund reports that L.A. has dealt Mattias Norstrom to Anaheim, ``but I may be wrong on that.” He was.
3:15 p.m. Eklund says rumour has Leafs trading Matt Stajan. They don’t.
more...The MSM is finally getting the picture that many of us have known all along…
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People love to talk about winners and losers on NHL trade deadline day. The real loser was Eklund, and unfortunately bloggers in general get a bad name from this guy.
Eklund came off as so amateurish, so wannabe-ish, so inaccurate, so fabricated and so obviously a complete nobody in the world of hockey. He was an embarrassment. SportsNet didn’t come off much better.
Its just too bad that he ruined the term blogger to newcomers and to mainstreamers.
Joe Pelletier
http://www.legendsofhockey.blogspot.com
Posted by Joe Pelletier from British Columbia on 02/28/07 at 11:19 AM ET
By the way, I should have prefaced my previous comments by telling you I have never had any previous thoughts on the guy one way or the other. This was my introduction to him. It was not a good one.
Joe Pelletier
http://www.legendsofhockey.blogspot.com
Posted by Joe Pelletier from British Columbia on 02/28/07 at 11:21 AM ET
Why is so much time devoted/wasted on Eklund? He has no more insight than anyone else who trolls the internet looking for news and is often inaccurate in his rush to get a scoop. Big deal.
Anyone who follows the NHL internet understands what they are getting and from whom, so it doesn’t make any other noteworthy bloggers less legit. Read him for free for pure entertainment value and he may even get it right once in a while. If you want to pay for his stuff you also believe professional wrestling is real and its your money. No need to hate the guy or even thinkk he matters.
This will be my only post ever on the subject, since I am already constradicting myself by stating its not worth the time or effort.
Posted by hockey1919 from Montreal on 02/28/07 at 12:25 PM ET
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He was a like an ECHL player making his debut in the Stanley Cup Finals, attempting to break stories that were either fabrications or based on completely flawed information and liberally stealing from other media sources. I give him credit for reportadly mentioning the Newsday blog as a source in “breaking” the Ryan Smith deal—it shows growth as a professional he didn’t have earlier this week when he stole a typo from USA Today without attribution and later had to admit that, no, Alexei Kovalev was indeed never placed on waivers. A simple call to his agent confirmed that for other sites.
Again, no dancing on the grave here. His performance makes all online hockey media look bad. His treatment as a sideshow reinforces my impression that he’s the Rush Limbaugh of bloggers—someone who can cover his many mistakes by simply claiming to be an outlet for entertainment. And I have equal amounts of respect for both of them as businessmen and reliable sources of misinformation.
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from DC on 02/28/07 at 08:49 AM ET