Comments on: Often Wrong Rumor Mongerer

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:17:23 +0000

I saw a column on sportsnet.ca regarding the curious availability of Alex Auld. As a Ranger fan uncomfortable with Valiquette as a backup, I posted something on Rangerland stating my opinion that Auld would be an affordable alternative to Valliquette. Next day Eklund is reporting Auld to NYR.
I read Kukla, Spector, etc. and nobody else has even a whisper about Auld to NYR. My conclusion is that Eklund scours the net and floats anything reasonable he finds as a rumor.

By: OrderedChaos

OrderedChaos — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:31:30 +0000

Great article Eric, thanks for providing the link. I wonder how much money made it to those tsunami relief funds… :-/

By: Eric McErlain

Eric McErlain — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:12:14 +0000

I actually interviewed Eklund back in 2005. The experience was instructive.

By: E

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:14:15 +0000

as someone who only started reading hockey blogs after the lockout, i’ve always struggled to understand why eklund is so successful. his site seems to work on the principle that if you toss out every possibility that turns up anywhere, eventually some of them will turn out to be right. which isn’t exactly useful, but isn’t deeply offensive either. so i always found the controversy around him a bit mysterious. thanks for providing the much-needed backstory.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:50:32 +0000

Just curious, not flaming at all, but any reason you all didn’t cover the uni leaks?