Prompt 1

Honestly? I don’t really love any hockey media I consume—part of it is hate reading due to certain notable names like Dom Luszczyszyn and Greg Wyshynski who have absolute hate boners for Columbus (if you want to try to argue about Dom, go ahead, but Wysh is irredeemable for his stupid takes and flagrant hatred of my team). It also doesn’t help that I don’t have cable access, so I’m unable to watch or listen to coverage of the league. Plus, coverage of the NHL isn’t great in the U.S. When I have had access to like TSN, they’re okay, other than paying notable snake oil salesman Doug Maclean for his bad takes. I read a lot of the Athletic to try to keep up on news, but even Columbus’ own beat writer—Aaron Portzline—and I have a complicated relationship back to his days at the Columbus Dishrag… err “Dispatch.” Still, he’s not as bad as he once was now that he’s sticking mostly to reporting the news and cut the insider rumors stuff his later Dispatch years were infamously bad for. Beyond Portzy, there’s not really many other people in The Athletic who stick out to me for good or bad (other than Dom, who again, for some reason consistently doesn’t like my team!)