Remember the Sports section?

Let's begin with a little unknown fact about the audio Central Division Hockey - The Podcasts. They are scripted. One thing maddening about it was the free transcription the podcast host site I was using, well, let's say it was so bad, I simply figured out how to turn it off.

This blogger page was to be used as a complimentary piece to the podcast and I also didn't want it to be the audio podcast transcriptions posted either. It's funny you know how counter to the local media based or the big corporate network coverage all in all that you want to have something counter to it - but let's be clear - I believe it still needs that paid journalistic approach to it. 

While we can lament for example, hockey's most read blog: Eliotte Friedman's 32 Thoughts becoming - well less thoughts - our smart phones and sites full of fancy stats at our fingertips - you forgot how you use to have to read the sports section to keep up on your favorite team.

Even as I complete a podcast on the 8 teams that make up the NHL's Central Division; the content is outdated by a puck dropping just hours later. Keeping up on all 8 could be a full- time gig except no one wants the NHL covered this way. 

It's local market driven or nationally so spread out - the nuisances of the middle are lost. You therefore have really good local scribes - who know their home team - but very little about the league around them or national guys who simply don't see anyone near enough to know what makes a specific team's pulse click.

I'm a hockey outsider, because I'm not getting to interview coaches or players, or have an agent try and drum up the trade market for his player using my small platform. What I can tell you is who the best national NHL media sources are, who for the Central Division teams are the best local ones and levitate in a state of where no one really thinks my opinions are "reputable" because I'm not hired by say The Athletic for you to assume they are.

I don't want to just watch one NHL team or covered just one. I don't think you could even with a paid full-time league cover all 32 with out so many blind spots appearing. I don't watch all 32, in fact, I avoid teams I don't want to watch. There are just too many teams. In fact; eight of them is too many when it's just your unpaid spare time.

I like doing things that haven't been done. Blogs aren't new but covering a specific NHL division of hockey was and I feel like writing more so as long as it isn't just repeating what was in the audio pods that what I am going to try and do. 

It will be published and exist and that means it's available to be read, I've done my part.