Ya Eklund is a joke but since he says he is just passing rumors on, the low accuracy rate isn’t as damning as it seems - he can just say it doesn’t mean the rumors weren’t out there.

I think an interesting analysis would be the number of actual trades that he has speculated on before they happen vs. the ones that go down with no mention from him.  Since he puts up so many rumors if there are a lot that he had no whiff of it is pretty good evidence that he’s a clown but I don’t know what the hurdle rate should be.  Any ideas?  50%?  33%?

Posted by smokey from CA on 02/13/09 at 05:03 PM ET

Smokey, he says he is just passing on the rumors, but he isn’t, he makes them up to attract site hits.

Ovechkin to Nashville should have made you realize that last year.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 02/13/09 at 05:07 PM ET

I believe that guy said the percentage was around 3%....

Posted by Tony F from Virginia Beach, VA on 02/13/09 at 05:14 PM ET

Dwayne Klessel is a joke.  3.4% accurate.  That’s awful.

Posted by HockeyJoe from Upstate New York on 02/13/09 at 05:41 PM ET

Agreed that he’s a joke. The fact that he link spams and now forces users to sign up for either a pay account or fork over their cellphone number in order to comment on blogs/stories was the last straw for me. Now i can’t even read the blogs by the few good bloggers they have on HockeyBuzz.

As for his accuracy though… i do wonder whgat the percentage is of offered trades go down. I bet there’s a lot of GMs trading emails and picking up phones saying “hey, what’ll you give me for X” or “what would i need to get Y from you”, especially during the offseason when you add talk between GMs and agents signing UFAs. I’d be willing to bet that only 3-5% of stuff that is offered/floated actually happens anyway.

Posted by pwnicholson from Nashville, TN on 02/13/09 at 08:54 PM ET

I think Ek tried to do something after http://www.crashthecrease.com wrote something about him..

Nothing happened though so i could be wrong

Posted by Ryan Jones on 02/13/09 at 09:02 PM ET

Actually thinking about it more I think he just made an email to that site or something like that and nothing happened at all..

I have never been to that hogwash site before today after seeing this link..

3% LMFAO

Posted by Ryan Jones on 02/13/09 at 09:04 PM ET

Ok, so the guy that steals info for a living (when he isn’t making it up) is upset that someone stole his idea......
What an a hole!

Posted by AvsRock on 02/13/09 at 09:08 PM ET

How can Eklund force that site to remove his “logo” because of copyright?

The “logo” as he calls it is a *#$%@& free font available here:

http://www.dafont.com/bulky-refuse.font

Posted by prodigy on 02/14/09 at 12:22 AM ET

The clowns at 104.5 used to worship this guy, and they made a big deal out of his appearance 2 years ago when they had the ticket telethon...McFarland went on and on about how this guy knows all the inside scoops..... Out of that 3.4% or whatever he gets right , Im willing to bet 50% of those are scoops that he read elsewhere and claimed for his own.....

Posted by Yzerman19 from Nashville on 02/14/09 at 10:31 AM ET

I don’t see the big deal.  The guy does hockey rumors.  Its just for fun and interesting to read sometimes, but there is no use to get so up in arms about it.  If the guy was giving stock tips then yeah be pissed, but to go after a guy for something as silly as hockey rumors is kind of overboard.

Posted by oliverconverge from Mufreesboro on 02/15/09 at 09:15 AM ET

When he is a liar that makes his money off of others, yes, there is a problem.

Posted by moore00 from the Ohio State University on 02/16/09 at 03:16 PM ET