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There's a thread for TV/streaming options, figure we should have one for written coverage as well.

Souring big-time on The Athletic. Charging regular subscribers $70-plus per year and NOW we have ads on top of it. I threatened to unsubscribe and they offered a dirt-cheap price, so I'll go with it one more year. Still not happy though--the whole goddamned point of a subscription is to avoid ads.

The really annoying thing is that there's a very serious splintering of news coverage in the sport. A lot of fired scribes from The Athletic and newspapers are striking it out on their own with "Hockey Now" and Substack newsletters. Unfortunately the Hockey Now guy in Denver is Adrian Dater, who lost his press credential after a dumb exchange with Nathan MacKinnon over a year ago. He sends other guys out there to cover the games and what not, but he also spews out hot takes on Twitter that get disproven pretty quick. I feel for the guy a bit because of his past personal struggles, but that doesn't excuse shitty coverage.

The blog sites like Bleacher Report and Fansided don't usually do much except regurgitate (but sometimes they do analyze it well) content that's already out there. DNVR has a decent podcast when the guys involved with it are sober, but I decided to end my subscription with them for now. If things with The Athletic continue, I may switch.

Denver Post is also subscription based and I sure as fuck will never pay to read Mark Kizsla's inflammatory garbage. Sean Keeler seems a'ight though.

Anyway, what do you read to keep up on your team?

The Athletic hockey coverage is getting stale, but I stick around for their baseball coverage.

Jfresh and Jack Han on Twitter are my stats guys. Capfriendly has the transactions.

Montreal's most handsome journalist will still be Liveblogging the Habs for the Montreal Gazette this season, and it won't be paywalled, so fans of rival teams are always welcome to lurk.

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IMO, while great for some of the writers, consolidating journalists and hockey news behind a paywall wasn't good for the fans.

While I only subscribed to the Atlantic the first year.....its ironic that the cost is now astronomical with ads.

Gone are the days of free Puckdaddy (Wyshynski is semi-hidden behind ESPN+ paywall now) and I just never valued individual talking heads opinion enough to pay for it.

I find mainstream, matchsticks and gasoline and stanley cup of chowder (SB Nation), listening online and game viewing to be enough for me now. Of course the veteran minds of hockey around here are also a plus!

Maybe I will watch In the Crease now since I am on with ESPN+ but as for written coverage there isn't any need for me to pay for it when there are plenty of other free methods that deliver the same info.

So really the best/easiest place I have found to see schedules and standings is ESPN....

https://www.espn.com/nhl/schedule

Capfriendly for obvious reasons

https://www.capfriendly.com/

I also like

http://www.naturalstattrick.com/

https://www.matchsticksandgasoline.com/ is a good site for the Flames
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/ for the B's

The Score IMO is the best sports app out there and the comments section is a downright entertaining cesspool of humanity (think faceoff).

Their website is trash though so stick to the app

https://www.thescore.com/

If you are into mixing societal issues with your hockey news sportsnet or tsn will always do you right and they are always good to glance at.

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