GDT: Columbus @ Montreal | 7 PM EST

[koteka]

Brian Hedger assured me Elvis and Tarasov are becoming Swayman/Ullmark.

Is he going to tweet out that if you subtract off all the goals scored on them, Elvis and Tarasov have a lot of shutouts this season.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

How many times in league history have teams played better after a pull? It's not really remarkable by itself. I didn't mean to imply that the players played poorly because of Elvis, I don't think that's the case.

I didn't think you were. your thoughts seemed pretty objective but I think there are some people who instantly blame the goalie on every goal scored so its hard to read if he literally played like sh*t or if it was the team in front of him that did since I didn't see it.

I do think there are people here who think that however because they base their decisions on the past.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Elvis didn't played good but hard to win games if you don't score any goals.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Is it not Roslovic traded?

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Is it not Roslovic traded?

He is making a comparison to the roster from “a few days ago.”

 

[NotWendell]

Brian Hedger assured me Elvis and Tarasov are becoming Swayman/Ullmark.

LOL I believe Hedger as much as I believed Doug MacLean. Portzline, for everything we've ever said about him over the years, is 10x the beat writer as Hedger.

 

[cbjthrowaway]

LOL I believe Hedger as much as I believed Doug MacLean. Portzline, for everything we've ever said about him over the years, is 10x the beat writer as Hedger.

as far as local beat guys go, portzline is one of the better ones in the sport. he's also one of the best writers of all those guys. he's not above criticism, and he'd probably tell you that himself since he is an actual professional.

my only real complaints about him are:

1. he occasionally editorializes in pieces where he shouldn't
2. he tweets goals ahead of the actual TV feed, because he wants to be 'first' for some reason, and somehow still does not know how to thread tweets

but as far as editorializing + twitter etiquette go, hedger is a far worse offender on both counts, for completely different reasons, while having significantly less output and not measuring up as a reporter/writer on top of that.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

1. he tweets goals ahead of the actual TV feed, because he wants to be 'first' for some reason, and somehow still does not know how to thread tweets

In all fairness, time delay lag on internet streaming is wildly different and the team themselves have been guilty of this in the past.

I've even texted back and forth with a friend watching Bengals games where I have Directv Stream and I think he has Youtube TV and our streams differ by 30 seconds or more at times.

 

[majormajor]

as far as local beat guys go, portzline is one of the better ones in the sport. he's also one of the best writers of all those guys. he's not above criticism, and he'd probably tell you that himself since he is an actual professional.

my only real complaints about him are:

1. he occasionally editorializes in pieces where he shouldn't
2. he tweets goals ahead of the actual TV feed, because he wants to be 'first' for some reason, and somehow still does not know how to thread tweets

but as far as editorializing + twitter etiquette go, hedger is a far worse offender on both counts, for completely different reasons, while having significantly less output and not measuring up as a reporter/writer on top of that.

Porty probably has no idea about the time delay on the broadcast. He's not tech savvy, obviously.

Hell of a chronicler though. I can't think of a beat writer who can write long form as well as him. It's a lost art.