it seemed a little odd that so many “people” would come to his side and defend him staunchly like that. As always, the fraud continues to spill out sewage.

Posted by Zetterberg40rule on 02/08/07 at 03:40 PM ET

I can’t help but get the bad feeling that as this spirals further and further down the toilet, the fact that he was the one that “represented” bloggers will be scrutinized by the “real” media as an example of why not to trust anyone outside of people with credentials or who work for an actual organization like the AP or a local newspaper.

Posted by Michael Turner from Columbus, OH on 02/08/07 at 03:40 PM ET

You tried to handle it for 10 months? No offense but I would’ve outed the fraud a heckuva lot sooner, I’m sure he did a lot of this early on, trying to build himself a reputation. Now that he’s already got his legion of mindless drones shelling out a monthly fee I’m not sure how much this can hurt him.

Posted by Jeff on 02/08/07 at 03:41 PM ET

Many people who were affiliated with that site, are no longer.
Some of the people who are affiliated with that site, don’t know what Dwayne has done in the past.
Will they change their tune now?, that is their decision.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 03:43 PM ET

Michael, you are exactly right.  Too many bloggers have worked too hard to be thrown into this stereotype that may come about.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 03:44 PM ET

I would love to have his IP for BAN reasons.  After all it’s stolen right?

Posted by Tony from Mid-Michigan on 02/08/07 at 03:47 PM ET

When I also asked him about working for two NHL teams and other stuff he put on his online “About Me”, he had no answer.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 03:55 PM ET

Who really cares who he is….?

I will never understand all of this animosity torwards the guy.  Take him at face value and move on…there are bigger things to worry about in life.

Posted by Anonymous on 02/08/07 at 03:56 PM ET

I agree.  Just ignore the idiot, Paul.  You are making yourself look petty.

Posted by Rachel from San Jose on 02/08/07 at 04:11 PM ET

Eklund was also probably posing as Taylor Code and when they were both slinging you know what back and forth it was probably one guy doing it all.
I have never and will ever pay for rumors and visits to his site are as rare as a UFO sighting for me.

Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 02/08/07 at 04:15 PM ET

Rachel, I understand your concern and that is why I tried to handle this beheind the scenes.
It needed to get out, for my sake and for the hockey bloggers who have put in an honest effort.
It won’t go any further than this unless the lies continue.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 04:15 PM ET

Paul, you really need to let it go. Its unprofessional to continually attack someone on your blog.

I don’t read eklund’s web page, heck, I haven’t visited it in a year or so, but its disturbing that the only times I hear about him is on this site.

Posted by bcrt on 02/08/07 at 04:28 PM ET

BCRT, I fully understand your position.  I know you have stated this in the past.
But you must understand there are numerous issues behind the scenes that continue to flare up.
As I have stated, I attempted to handle this outside of KK, but more lies were tossed my way.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 04:32 PM ET

I read tons of blog and websites everyday.  I see this Eklund’s name appearing all over the place.  A good healthy dose of truth never hurt anyone, with the exception of the one that is lying.  Misleading someone is the same as a bald face lie, trying to pass yourself off as something your not is just as bad.  I for one think it’s about time this Eklund get whats coming to him and thats an all out bashing.

After all many, many Americans have died so I could have the right to speak my peace.  If Eklund is legit, then why is he hiding and not coming to his own defense.  I want to hear it from his mouth, not a bunch of fake names.  sorry </end rant>

Posted by Tony from Mid-Michigan on 02/08/07 at 05:05 PM ET

To view Paul or any of the legit, good, honest bloggers that are outting Eklund and “bashing” him as petty or unfair is petty and unfair in and of itself.

You need to view it from the perspective of a respectable hockey blogger. By scamming people the way he is, both fans and people in the league, he is making it harder for legit bloggers to be accepted by the NHL and its fans, and get their due opportunity to report on the league.

They have every right to be upset and want to out him publicly. Paul deserves a medal for even trying to do this behind the scenes. That’s mercy.

Posted by Nathan on 02/08/07 at 05:29 PM ET

Keep up the good fight Paul. You are the honest one here. You built this site and this network yourself on the same terms as that turd did (during the lockout), however you did it honestly and truthfully, to the profit of your readers alone.

Posted by Clancy on 02/08/07 at 06:05 PM ET

To be Honest the only reason why i defend Eklund is because the positive experince i had with him when i ment him in person and over at the flyers message board.

Its kinda sad and petty you people are acting like children over this subject. it’s amazing how other bloggers have so much hate towards this guy. atleast “Dywane” has actual people who actually around the sport everyday blogging instead of other blog sites inwhich the blogger has no life.

i really do question Paul’s job as a “hockey blogger”.

Here is my agrmuent, basically on this “blog” you have NHL news clippings and NHL magnagment kiss ass news clipings.

I thought it was job of a blogger to hold managament of this league and their teams under fire but this site has turned into Gary Bettman kiss ass site and puts out the garbage from the league’s Press Department.

atleast eklund actually has a blogger who rips the league apart.

After adding chuck gromley (who cant get his facts straight most of the time) to this site has basically turned into hockeybuzz.com lite.

Posted by FlyersFan on 02/08/07 at 06:18 PM ET

Sorry you feel that way FlyersFan and I know you have defended Dwayne in the past.
Why don’t you ask him why he did what he did?  Then report back if you’d like too.
Regarding KK, I must say I try to maintain a fair and balanced view of the NHL and let the readers make a decision.
Addressing your garbage PR stuff from the NHL, well, this is the NHL we are discussing.  Tell me where else can you read some of the information I post?
I don’t like the old term, if you don’t like it, don’t read it, but you do have that choice.
Again, ask Dwayne why he did what he did and report back.  I would be interested in it.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 06:25 PM ET

Here’s the thing FlyersFan.  This site is all about hockey.  The games and the people behind the games.  It’s a place where I can come and read all of the hockey stories that I’d normally have to got to a hundred different sites to read.  Most importantly, the person who runs this site does not misrepresent who he is and where he’s from and what he’s done.  I could care less who Eklund really is.  But this fact that he continually misrepresents who people think he is and who he’s worked for and and who his friends are.  I think he could have done his thing and people really wouldn’t have cared if he had gone about it with integrity.  However, when people become lying sacks of sh*t, then they have to suffer the consequences!

Posted by Mac from Canada on 02/08/07 at 06:34 PM ET

Hey, I understand that this whole debate has degenerated into mudslinging every now and then but I have to side with Paul on this one. Why? Well, integrity is the only way any new medium gets accepted. In this format, that comes with honesty.

First off, I’m not so self-enamored that I believe that our hockey blogging community is anywhere near as important as, say, global warming or people dying in Iraq.  But in every segment of the media, no matter how specific, integrity should come into play. For bloggers, that’s for anyone trying to claim facts and information (opinions, on the other hand, I don’t care if you go bonkers over).

I’m sure Dwayne/Eklund/Whoever has contacts in the NHL by now. But I’m also sure that he pulls stuff out of his ass and says he got it from a GM who “just called him”—there have been countless threads on message boards about completely nonsensical things, usually involving players who are currently doing well and have a no-trade clause.

I believe that this damages the integrity of any hockey blogger out there because the MSM likes to paint with really large brushes out there. If the site that gets the most traffic is producing poorly written rumors that sound like they came out of the schoolyard, it will be hard for anyone—the league, the players, the MSM—to accept blogging as more than just fanboys putting up something for fun.

Sure, going by a psuedonym may be part of his schtick. And writing in his weird middle-school grammatical style may all just be part of his schtick too. All I’m saying is that for an objective observer to come in and wonder if any of this blogging stuff that the kids are all crazy about is legit…well, I’m sure they’d be scoffing away at what they see. And that doesn’t really help anyone in the long term.

Posted by Mike Chen on 02/08/07 at 08:38 PM ET

I suppose I should start off with a disclaimer because if I don’t someone will point it out as if I’m hiding something: I do Eklund’s website development. That said…

Let’s talk about reality…

The only thing that the Anti-Eklund Crusade has on him is some inconsistencies in his background story. 

I’ve read them myself and I understand why they bother some people.  I had those concerns addressed for myself a while ago and now it’s a non-issue for me… and if I had the slightest feeling that Eklund was the ‘fraud’ that the Anti-Eklund Crusade claim he is, I wouldn’t be working for him.  I work for him and I defend him against the irrational jealousy that is often spouted off by bloggers because I know… not I think… I KNOW that he’s not a fraud.

I know you’re not going to just take my word for it regarding his background story.  I don’t expect you to.  I’ve actually tried to talk Eklund into telling ‘The Story of Eklund’ many times but he’s not ready.  I personally don’t agree with that decision, but that’s his call, not mine.

But like I said…. his background story is ALL that you guys have.  So, let’s play a game for a second… let’s pretend that he never gave a background story…  then what bothers you about Eklund?

He charges for rumors?

No, he doesn’t.  He charges for access to certain features on his website…. entries to fantasy games… access to the chat room… access to certain forums.  None of his blogs require payment or even login to read them.  Shockingly, running and developing a website costs money.  One of the ways that we chose to generate revenue is by reserving certain features of the site for paying members… a practice done by almost every website on the internet.  And this make Eklund the devil?

He makes up rumors?

Because you say so?  Eklund has said himself many times that it’s not his job to decide whether or not a rumor makes sense.  He passes along what he hears without prejudice… as he should.  He has also admitted many times that 3% of what he hears actually comes to fruition.  But, to suggest that he makes them up when his track record includes nailing such things as the Forsberg signing in Philly and the Heatley/Hossa trade is absurd.  His overall track record is about the same as every other rumor reporter in the world…. and they’re all bad…. which is expected by anyone who understands the concept of a rumor.

What else does the Anti-Eklund Crusade have?  Seriously?

Please, enlighten us Paul.

Posted by Chris DeGrot on 02/08/07 at 10:12 PM ET

What story are you reading Chris?
My focus on this is the comments made in bold in the post I point to.
If people want to go the Dwayne’s site, go, and pay if too if they want to.
You really should re-read my post Chris.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 10:17 PM ET

Oh, I read what you wrote. 

Unfortunately for you, the track record for bloggers trying to take Eklund down is worse than what they claim Eklund’s track record is. 

And you personally have made comments on other blogs that have made it obvious that you will do anything to turn people against Eklund.  So, I’m sorry to tell you that you’re just not the most trustworthy source for this information because you clearly have an agenda.

And really, I just don’t get you Paul.  You’ve got your gig on NHL.com and you’re busy wasting your time on a guy who you think is a fraud and doesn’t get to write on a media website.  Why are you willing to make yourself look… as many people have commented on this very page… petty for him? Shouldn’t you be above that?

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/08/07 at 10:26 PM ET

Chris, I am not going to get in an online wrestling match with you.
Feel free to email me like about 40 others have today, you just may be surprised.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 10:30 PM ET

Paul… it’s not about an “internet wrestling match”... it’s about the fact that the way you present yourself is extremely unprofessional for someone who clearly wants to make a name for themselves in this industry.  As I posted on the AJC blog, there’s a reason why you don’t see “real” journalists acting this way.  And this “internet wresting match” that you have with Eklund is exactly the type of thing that makes the league and their teams reluctant to credential bloggers.  That said, you’ve got my email address.  If you’ve got something you want to share with me feel free to send it.  However, the more professional thing would be to attempt to work these things out with the person that you have an issue with.

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/08/07 at 10:37 PM ET

I’ve had my own personal experiences with this odd Eklund behavior on my old blog (Vancouver Canucks Op Ed) which supports Paul’s situation.  I also tracked the same IP addresses there, long before I started working at KK.

Personally I don’t much care what Eklund does—if people want to pay him, be my guest. My only issue is that he has misrepresented himself to me, and to many readers of hockey sites I care about. That’s not only seems a bit crazy, it’s also appears fraudulent, imo.

Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 02/08/07 at 10:37 PM ET

Chris, before you continue on, did you read I tried to work this out but just got more lies.?
Have you asked Dwayne about this, maybe like in the last hour?
More lies…

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/08/07 at 10:54 PM ET

How convenient for you.  You get to claim that everything he says to you is a lie so you can continue on your crusade.  Again, your agenda makes you hard to trust. 

Paul… with all due respect… I think you need to realize something.  Eklund doesn’t need you to like him or to support him.  His website does just fine with the majority of the blogging community out to get him.  He simply has no reason to do what you are claiming he did because there is no gain in it for him.

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/08/07 at 11:28 PM ET

Blah. Everybody cool it.

Paul does a great job here and as such is entitled to represent the interests of the internet blogging community (which he does very well). As such, he is entitled to make a judgement on this shady character, whoever he is.

And thats that. Let’s refocus on more important things, like the Wings getting shut out for the first time in 175 straight games tonight. aw man.

Posted by underthechestnuttree from LaSalle, Ontario, Canada on 02/09/07 at 12:10 AM ET

Even more important…Why do the Wings hate Joey MacDonald so much?  He seems nice enough in his interviews.

Posted by Baroque on 02/09/07 at 07:18 AM ET

Chris,

Again, your agenda makes you hard to trust.

I couldn’t agree more about you. Dwayne is paying you. So who can trust you?

Posted by Nathan on 02/09/07 at 08:56 AM ET

That’s it?  No offense, Paul, but I was expecting a little bigger splash—like maybe the story of a two-bit musician who tried passing off lyrics written by another as work of his own.  Not that The Dwayne has necessarily ever done such a thing, mind you, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that he did.  That’s the kind of thing shysters do.

Sorry, but The Fraud resorting to sock puppetry in the comments section of your blog is neither surprising nor particularly noteworthy given his personal history.

Color me unimpressed.

Still enjoy your site, though.  Thanks for the effort.

Posted by O-Joe on 02/09/07 at 10:55 AM ET

Paul does a great job here and as such is entitled to represent the interests of the internet blogging community (which he does very well).

The only thing Paul is doing is making the ‘internet blogging community’ look extremely juvenile.

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/10/07 at 12:22 PM ET

I couldn’t agree more about you. Dwayne is paying you. So who can trust you?

Well, there’s nothing I can do to convince you or anyone else otherwise.  Like I said before, if he wasn’t legit I wouldn’t be spending evenings away from my family working on a side job.  And if he wasn’t legit I would be spending my time on projects that were more worthwhile.

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/10/07 at 12:24 PM ET

Chris, you are not one to arrogantly talk about making folks look juvenile. You are also not one to talk about lies and misrepresentations, when you yourself have spouted lies and misrepresentations.

The only difference that I see between you and one of Dwayne’s “legion” of mindless drones is that you can actually put a coherent sentence together.

Posted by The Acid Queen from Raleigh, NC on 02/12/07 at 06:10 PM ET

Once again, shouldn’t you be off trying to find someone to tell you that Eklund might not have been at the All-Star Game so you could write another obsessive blog stating that he wasn’t there even though the words directly from your source that you quoted in your blog weren’t definitive at all?

You are the Queen of Misrepresentation…

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/12/07 at 06:18 PM ET

I’m surprised you haven’t blasted Paul as “obviously mentally disturbed” yet, Chris—because clearly, anyone who takes issue with your boss has some sort of problem.

Give me a break, please. All that you’ve accomplished with your “defense” of the guy who signs your paycheque is made yourself look arrogant and made it very clear that you’re not at all interested in anything except belittling anything that conflicts with your worldview.

Come back when you’re actually willing to have a discussion.

Posted by The Acid Queen from Raleigh, NC on 02/12/07 at 06:38 PM ET

Are you actually trying to suggest that you showed up here to have a discussion?  Perhaps you should go back and read what you posted because nothing in it would lead me or anyone else to believe that a discussion was what you were interested in doing.  In fact, it’s quite clear that you were wanting to do nothing more than insult me.

What I have problems with are people like YOU who pass of questionable information as if it were fact.  That’s exactly what you did last summer and that appears to me what Paul is doing now (who, btw, despite having my email address has not sent me the so-called incriminating evidence that he claims to have).

Anything else you would like to discuss or are insults all you’re interested in?

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/12/07 at 06:48 PM ET

I’m sorry, did I hit a nerve?

Are you actually trying to suggest that you showed up here to have a discussion?

The same could be asked of you. Where, pray tell, have I insulted you?

That’s exactly what you did last summer and that appears to me what Paul is doing now (who, btw, despite having my email address has not sent me the so-called incriminating evidence that he claims to have).

I’m sorry, but I don’t believe your comment about Paul one bit. And as for last summer?  What I did was present what I had and render my opinions on the matter—and when ONE of the things I said was shown to be wrong, I retconned it. If you seriously believe that Dwayne Klessel’s “IP was stolen” and that he’s the innocent martyr that you’re making him out to be, then I’d like to interest you in a bridge and some swampland.

Posted by The Acid Queen from Raleigh, NC on 02/12/07 at 09:28 PM ET

1) IP spoofing is not a new concept.
2) Plenty of people dislike Eklund enough to do it.
3) Paul has an agenda.  Anything he says he has is questionable at best, but he knows that his mindless readers such as yourself will believe anything he says as long as it is anti-Eklund
4) Eklund does not benefit from doing what he is being accused of doing… in no way shape or form.

And…

I fully expect 10 months from now for Paul to mysteriously find a way to prove that I’m Eklund.

Posted by Chris DeGroat on 02/12/07 at 10:39 PM ET

Once again, shouldn’t you be off trying to find someone to tell you that Eklund might not have been at the All-Star Game so you could write another obsessive blog stating that he wasn’t there even though the words directly from your source that you quoted in your blog weren’t definitive at all?

Yikes…does anyone have a DeGroater ring?

Posted by Greg Wyshynski from DC on 02/13/07 at 12:36 AM ET

1) IP spoofing is not a new concept.

I am fully aware of that—I once worked in network administration, so I well know “all the tricks”. However, IP spoofing is pretty easy to recognize.

2) Plenty of people dislike Eklund enough to do it.

Really?  Who has the wherwithal to do that?

3) Paul has an agenda.  Anything he says he has is questionable at best, but he knows that his mindless readers such as yourself will believe anything he says as long as it is anti-Eklund

The same could be said for you and your boss—but at least Paul can actually produce something to back up what he says, whereas you have done nothing but drop one logical fallacy after another, one insult after another, and one lie after another.

4) Eklund does not benefit from doing what he is being accused of doing… in no way shape or form.

What he’s accused of doing is deceiving the public and acting like he’s a Sooper Sekrit Insider just because he’s drinking buddies with a guy from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Predators’ PA announcer—how does he not benefit from that?

Posted by The Acid Queen from Raleigh, NC on 02/13/07 at 02:15 AM ET

Just got off the phone and I have these 3 rumours to pass along:

1) Chris Degroat spends too much time on this website trying to convince people that there is some sort of “anti-Eklund” conspiracy going on (e3)

2) None of this would have happened if Dwayne wasn’t so stupid that he started posting under false pseudonyms trying to “support” himself thinking no one would catch on to the fact that “Susan”, “Flyguy31”, “Poulin”, “the truth” and “Hockey Mod” all had the same IP address (e4)

3) If I was this ugly, I’d hide my identity from the public too (e5)

Posted by Eklund Jr. on 02/17/07 at 12:15 AM ET

Eklund is a fraud, I’ve known this since the first day his “blog” dropped. If you don’t get fake made up rumors from him in his blog, he starts yakking on and on about his family. Why would people care about his family on a hockey blog/rumor site? My sources this, my sources that, this dude is full of shat.

The minute you even mention the name Dwayne Keith Klessel on his site you get a perma ban. I can’t believe people pay him money to get those “extras”, yeah…they are paying him to create a cheesey chart on who is interested in what player and enter a chat room, gimme a break. Then he puts his fake (e1-5) dung, along side it because everyone is supposed to believe his source, which is probably TSN’s Ice Chips and Sportsnet’s Hockey Hearsay, or whatever I have made up posting on his free forum to see if he’d use it, in some cases he actually did.

My sources say Radek Bonk to Detroit for Pavel Datsyuk. There, can I be a hockey blogger like Eklund and charge money for the services to now? Funny thing is Eklund is eating steak dinners off all these sheepish chump stains that frequent his site and have paid the 20 bucks to get bent over.

Enjoy it Dwayne, your run will end soon you scab.

Posted by thatleafsguy from Toronto on 02/19/07 at 03:43 PM ET

Now he is ripping of Adam Proteau’s blog from The Hockey News and not giving him credit.

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=5623

Adam’s blog entry.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/en/newsroom/news.asp?idNews=23502

Man this Eklund ass is a joke.

Posted by thatleafsguy from Toronto on 02/19/07 at 06:05 PM ET

From the Geurin to NYI thread:

Oooooooo, private e-mails were exchanged (or were they?) between the blogger warriors, one from Dwayne’s camp explaining his diametrically-opposed published backgrounds.

If the discrepancy in Dwayne’s background is so easily explained, why doesn’t he or his flunkies just come out with story?

Oh, I know why.  Because then the “cool guys” with blogs wouldn’t have a secret to keep from the rest of us nerds.

Let us pheasants know when y’all graduate from junior high.

Posted by O-Joe on 02/24/07 at 11:20 AM ET

I tend to read KK and Spec first thing in the morning since both are reliable sources of legitimate hockey news. More often than not, one or the other will be amongst the first sites to post a breaking story and have an excellent track record of waiting to establish the legitimacy of the news before they put it out there. Paul goes the extra mile by finding interesting stories in various places that I’d never think to look.

As such, KK acts for me as a new-gathering service and pre-vets the story’s credibility for me. I still will read with a grain of salt (I wait for the NHL or NHLPA or TSN or CBC websites to publish something before my trust level reaches 100%) but I’m rarely—if ever—disappointed.

I also visit Eklund’s site every few days, but do so out of a mixture of morbid fascination and an interest in some of the other writers’ analysis of the news. The latter, being opinion pieces based on already-establish legitimate news stories, are “worthwhile” to me simply to get a broader perspective on what’s going on in my favourite sport. The former is for pure entertainment value; but I never trust anything I read there further than I could throw my old 21” IBM CRT monitor.

Anyway, my intent isn’t to bash Eklund. There are plenty of other people who can do so with far better proficiency than I can; and I secretly enjoy reading his stuff in much the same way I often furtively read a few pieces in the National Inquirer while waiting in the supermarket’s check-out line. I just treat it with exactly the same…er…reservations.

I am only responding here (first time ever to post a comment on this site, too) to offer some praise to Paul—and other bloggers like him, around the NHL—for being conscientious enough to maintain those credibility standards without anyone hovering over your shoulder and forcing you to do so. I, and probably countless silent others, really appreciate what you do and hope you keep up the good work!

Cheers!

Posted by Chris from T.O. on 08/01/07 at 10:27 AM ET

http://www.njdevs.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26000

Poor eklund, dwayne, fake hockey guy with a mop

Posted by ForeverFlyer16 from subs of philly on 10/25/07 at 04:22 PM ET

what is really funny is that without even knowing it was not allowed i posted the guys pic on his comments section and he banned me lol is this guy for real. if that is the kind of baby he is i dont want to see his site. all made up crap anyways.

Posted by buckshot from mtl on 01/31/08 at 01:43 PM ET

Eklund is…

Dwayne Keith Klessel

He was born on January 12, 1968

his wife is J&&& Klessel

and they live in Blue Bell, PA

I know, I ran with his wife in a local running club

Posted by Jon Fasulo from Ambler, PA on 02/14/08 at 07:49 PM ET

Paul from Motown said,  Many people who were affiliated with that site, are no longer.
Some of the people who are affiliated with that site, don’t know what Dwayne has done in the past.
Will they change their tune now?, that is their decision.

I’ve never heard of hockeybuzz.com before I read this article.  Now that this has come out, no way do I make a stop over there.

Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 02/14/08 at 08:00 PM ET

so what if I live in a townhouse in Highgate Drive in Blue Bell and my wife runs my life, so allow me to be the hockey guru I never was

Sincerely

Dwayne Keith Klessel

Eklund!

Posted by Dwayne Keith Klessel from Blue Bell, PA on 02/17/08 at 01:11 AM ET

Any credibility or respect he could have possibly had has slowly diminished as he has stupidly and stubbornly refused to come clean about who he actually is and his actual past.

If the guy had just said, “Okay, yeah, I invented a lot of details about my past to give me and my blog some credibility and I got in over my head… here’s who I am, I do have some resources now and would like to continue giving you hockey rumors,”  a lot of people, including the so called “eklund-haters” would have probably dropped it, and he would still probably have a decently visited site.

But the more he hides behind silly forum names and changes his story, the more he just pisses people off. 

So Flyguy31, Susan, Chris, Eklund, Dwayne - you can keep it up as long as you like, but you’re only driving people away.

Posted by Dan on 02/17/08 at 02:19 AM ET