When there's so little money to be made on it I'm doubtful anyone spends time on any kind of oversight and it's not like someone from Sports Illustrated is gonna see it and be like "holy crap who is that?" and suddenly you get a gig that pays well. Writing about the team you love is indeed a lot of fun but when you love the game beyond your team it's torturous. I wanna wake up and have the freedom to write about "Where can Gallant make his biggest impact?" and after that about a player who is just in the shits after starting off his career rather well like Duchene or Gostisbhere and later follow that up with something about a team no one really thinks of. I can't think of anything more dull than writing about the Lightning right now. Unless we are facing the Stars or Jackets it's gonna basically be us beating the hell out of some hapless club.
Combine it with ground rules and it's just not gonna mesh with my degree of motivation.
edit: oh yeah and I break the 4th wall way too much.
The format makes it weird this year.
So ridiculous thing to compare it to, but look at the Athletic. I am not really a fan of Joe Smith as a writer and I wish there was more game/team content over personal interest stuff, but the one thing he can do is take access and turn it into content. If you don't have access, you need to have another way to generate content. That comes from either deep dives or hot takes. Deep dives is real work and requires an understanding of the game but also an understanding of how to communicate the information. Hot takes are lazy and uninteresting to me.
I don't think churning out 1500 words three times a week on what happened in a 5-1 game is interesting content generally, but it probably needs to be *part* of it. But the rest of it needs something else, and it doesn't look like RC is in a position to actually do that.
