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Originally Posted by dino7c
Not the first time
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And if that's what he wants, that's fine.
You can make a career in hockey out of knowing the right person in the league office or set of agents or friends/family of executives who will divulge this to you and allow you to fire out juicy rumors consistently (assuming you can monetize that knowledge).
Dreger has done it for how many years, as he knows someone in the league office (or did) that sees the faxes on trades (evidence exhibit a, the Jokinen 2.0 deal that was amended last minute to be put on hold until the next day, but Dreger reported it early), and was cousins with Dave Nonis. And, guys like Seravelli who act as microphones for agents and their clients.
Kevin Lowe and our former GM have no problem telling the press inside dirt to get them on their side, share some intimate details no one knows as a favour and makes the insider feel like an insider, and that favour is called in later when Lowe needs some dirt on a team or agent that doesn't open up to their people. It's definately a subculture with its own rules.
Rumors get clicks and more credibility gets those rumors more clicks, but dealing in rumors only gets you labelled pretty quick in NHL executive circles and you have to walk a fine line with all that or you lose your contacts (they go quiet), so discretion and playing the game is important.
Weekes I think is unaffiliated with anything network wise, after being on the NHL network and maybe NBC for a bit? So that tells you something. He's not getting paid to be the leaker of this info. So why is he doing it? To cause ####?
The team beat writers on every team know a lot more about things on the team than they could very share in a column or interview...under the natural threat of them no longer being a NHL team beat writer anymore, anywhere, if they did spill the beans.
And, guys like Dreger or that type do not have NHL GM aspirations (which could itself be a rumor Weekes has asked to have "reverse" floated out there by the people he gets his info from) like Weekes supposedly has.
