I have this love-hate relationship with The Hockey News. At times their reporting seems to be a best of collection of beat writers and rehashed stories, and yet having all of the hockey beat writers appear in one regular publication isn’t a bad thing. Their coverage of college, major junior, women’s and international hockey is thin, but it’s better than what you get anywhere else — what my grandmother would call “gornischt” (not zero, but not measurable in any reasonable fashion).
Last month (Oct 21 issue) THN picked Princeton to repeat as ECAC champions. Strong words, considering that they had no eye of the Tiger last year. With the ECAC season about one-third done (already??!!) Princeton is indeed atop the standings, two points ahead of Cornell (but with one more game played). Aside from an opening ECAC weekend loss to the Big Red, Princeton has done a great job with six other ECAC teams. Goalie Zane Kalemba has a sick 1.00 GAA and a save percentage of 0.957 — he falls down less frequently than your cable service on a Tuesday night.
Maybe The Hockey News is looking around the corner?
