TSN's look at Canada's six NHL teams...is rubbish

We all love to hear about our favourite NHL team, regardless of the time of year. So, I was intrigued to see TSN's "summer six-pack, an online synopsis with all the reports on where your favourite Canadian team is going this season." Intrigued, that is, until I read the article.

Summer six-pack? I'd take issue with TSN's bullshit Poochie-The-Dog-esque jargon if I didn't know that deep down, many hockey fans were actually impressed that they equated the number of Canadian NHL teams with the number of beers in a case. Brutal.

All the reports on where my favourite NHL team is going this season: those are their words, not mine. The report that followed was no more than a recap of the offseason moves by the Leafs. In short, there was no information at all about where the team is going . Not a stab at where they'd finish, not even analysis of what they still need to upgrade. Nothing.

The only opinion that the article offered was on goaltending; that Andrew Raycroft is the #1 goaltender until he loses the job to Vesa Toskala. The fact is that there is no goaltending controversy in Toronto. Vesa Toskala is the #1 goaltender. He took the starting goaltender position from Andrew Raycroft the day he was acquired from San Jose. No general manager, not even John Ferguson Hooknose, trades away three draft choices (including a 13th overall pick) to acquire a back-up, or even platoon goaltender, especially not when there was an abundance of potential first string goalies to be had (ie. Manny Fernandez, Ilya Bryzgalov).

An intelligent sports fan should be wary of anything written by TSN. After all, TSN's job is to report the sports news, not to create sports news. At tsn.ca, however, they are all too willing to forget their role and pretend they are The Hockey News. The article that I am shitting on today wasn't written by any of TSN's "hockey experts", rather just by "tsn.ca Staff". It'd be interesting to know which part of tsn.ca staff wrote the article - was it, say, Bob McKenzie, or the guy that mops the floors in the washroom after Gino Reda drops a deuce? Judging by the content in the article - and at tsn.ca as a whole - I'd guess the latter.