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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Well there may be a convention in hockey. I know in politics any good politician knows that anything you say can be on the record. Even when you confirm that things are off the record they sometimes end up in stories as “senior cabinet ministers said” and anyone with half a brain can deduct who said it, so the reporters are not always fair in that regard. But hockey may have a different convention. In politics you will never see a politician shooting the #### about what they just announced at a presser after the mics are turned off. But it is a more formalized process with backgrounders, news releases etc. so whatever the politician wants to say is in those docs or said at the mic. But sports would be unique, at least vis-a-vis politics in that there may be an implied “off-the-record” that is never stated.
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In politics certainly they are careful about anything said
But what I describe is not unique to hockey
When taking to entities such as the police you always clarify if something is on the record. If you go to press with something that wasn’t on the record, even if unattributed, you will quickly be shut out of getting any more information.
On the record and off the record is certainly not unique to hockey.