He is self loathing in trying to seem like he doesn't have a Devils bias. It really gets annoying when he is still making Brodeur fat jokes. They are so annoying now because no one else does it anymore because they know its old. Those are as fresh as Sean Avery's NHL career is still viable
The funny thing is, because he mentions living in DC so often, now he gets accused of having a Caps bias. He can't win.
I guess some schmuck at ESPN did see that the Devils board on here is one of the most active and they thought they can generate a nice amount of clicks by trolling us.
At this point there is only one way to deal with the hockey coverage of BSPN. Ignore it. Or print it and use it as toilet paper.
I find that Yahoo is consistently the best, followed by TSN. Yahoo might be a bit amateurish, and Wyshynski seems to be a self-loathing Devils fan, but they generally treat us fairly and have coherent and relevant analysis on the hockey stories of the day.
Wysh definitely has a persecution complex about being a Devils fan, which is understandable, but their articles are still around the quality written by fans on sites like SBNation. The whole "zombie motif" for their playoff series analysis and predictions is laughably bad. If Yahoo is as good as it gets for US hockey coverage, I might as well just not read anything except boxscores.
Many of the American teams have Canadian print media. Also, TV folks get votes too, and again, many of the American teams have Canadian television folks. So it's not just hockey cities that have voters, online media and periodicals often get votes too, like notable bloggers, Sports Illustrated, Hockey Night in Canada, ESPN, Yahoo, TSN, etc....
Anyway, my guess is that RHN wins it, even though he shouldnt. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
everyone needs to start realizing that ESPN is a total joke. I only watch game broadcasts. their reporting is ridiculous and extremely bias and their hockey coverage is so minimal and their writers just blow
everyone needs to start realizing that ESPN is a total joke. I only watch game broadcasts. their reporting is ridiculous and extremely bias and their hockey coverage is so minimal and their writers just blow
The weird thing is, their web coverage used to be pretty decent, even as hockey was routinely derided and treated as a joke on Sports Centre. Now even their web coverage is bad.
Didn't Barry Melrose, the ESPN hockey analyst, do a segment on the NHL Network talking about the Calder candidates and mention Henrique 2nd?
ESPN has a short bus just like any other media outlet. Some ride, some point and laugh.
If Melrose said that, I missed it. I can understand if people pick RNH or more likely Landeskog ahead of Henrique, but to leave him out of the conversation entirely, like LeBrun, shows complete ignorance or bias.
everyone needs to start realizing that ESPN is a total joke. I only watch game broadcasts. their reporting is ridiculous and extremely bias and their hockey coverage is so minimal and their writers just blow
With Burnside, it's intentional.
He's picked against the Devils in the playoffs for years.
He's picked the Devils to miss the playoffs even though he was wrong year after year, until last season.
He picked the Devils to not make the playoffs this season as well.
Burnside picks the Panthers in 7 "against all logic" by his own admission, LeBrun drops the Devils 4 spots in the power rankings during a winning streak, and now there is no acknowledgement of Henrique being an impact player for the Devils. Clearly ESPN disdains the Devils.
Shouldn't have beaten their team in 03. Them and ABC were all over the Ducks, I'm still disgusted about that Conn Smythe decision.
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I guess some schmuck at ESPN did see that the Devils board on here is one of the most active and they thought they can generate a nice amount of clicks by trolling us.
At this point there is only one way to deal with the hockey coverage of BSPN. Ignore it. Or print it and use it as toilet paper.
Couturier is going to be matched up head to head with Malkin for that series so he has to be on there. I can see why people would be upset about Read being ranked first but he is much more than a third liner. He gets tons of PK and PP time as well and did lead all rookies in goals.
If Melrose said that, I missed it. I can understand if people pick RNH or more likely Landeskog ahead of Henrique, but to leave him out of the conversation entirely, like LeBrun, shows complete ignorance or bias.
He did, RG is right. LeBrun and Hradek also mention him often.
Many of the American teams have Canadian print media. Also, TV folks get votes too, and again, many of the American teams have Canadian television folks. So it's not just hockey cities that have voters, online media and periodicals often get votes too, like notable bloggers, Sports Illustrated, Hockey Night in Canada, ESPN, Yahoo, TSN, etc....
Anyway, my guess is that RHN wins it, even though he shouldnt. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I don't see a motive regardless of your dubious assumptions
Voynov and Shaw above Henrique? 
