Like the NHL, the NBA, NFL, and the college conferences have their beat writers/reporters and try to tell people what is going on. In my opinion the NHL has the best reporters in all of the major sports leagues combined. Why? The community of hockey reporters is not that big, but they are very passionate about their work. For example, Darren Dregger, and Bob Mckenzie have their own twitter feeds and update them regularly. Their stories and their reports are usually spot on and never tell a false story or steal any other writer's stories. Another example of why these people are the best is that they have great relationships with the players and can get interviews with the players very easily. With NHL trade deadline coming up, the panel of TSN analysts (basically the ESPN of Canada) have a show starting at 8am the day of the deadline and is broadcasted all over the US and Canada and report trades as soon as they fall through. The players around the league even watch it because it lets players know if their teammates or even themselves have been traded. The hockey coverage of Canada is way better then in the US because not many people down here in the US want to cover hockey. People these days want to talk about the NBA or the NFL. There have not been really any stories of corrupt reporters in the hockey world, but in all other sports, they are out there. There aren't many bad reporters in the hockey world, but the coverage of hockey from one certain network is bad. ESPN. Why? Because its not that the reporters are bad, they are not really well known and have just been writing articles and never go on Sports Center. They pretty much get no public outlook on what they say because they are not well known if you don't go on ESPN.com. I mostly get my news from the TSN guys or NHL.com because they get the news right away, while ESPN.com does not write about it until a few hours later. Hopefully as hockey grows around the US, the community of hockey reporters will grow also.
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