I don't know why, but everything saad writes annoys me.
Like why the f*** are you adding middle names and making the post longer for no good reason?
Does twitter have some kind of minimum character limit?
I had to think about this for a second, because I feel the same way but it's not like he did anything horrible in that tweet. I think it's because he doesn't seem as dedicated to being a beat writer as some of the other people that have come through here. I get the impression he's just passing through on his way to whatever the next sport he wants to actually cover is.
I think we're relatively spoiled because, while I don't think Shapiro was the king of analysis or anything, the guy was dedicated to covering this team 100%, and put out coverage like crazy, included these big projects during the summer that broke down video of some guys and analyzed players and the team with more depth.
Mostly, I'm disappointed that someone who is not being paid by the Stars to cover the Stars isn't more critical of a team that so clearly deserves it. We already have a Razor and a Heika, we don't need more neutral rhetoric for a team that has been anything but over the last few years.
TLDR; We're paying for a subscription for a specialist hockey beat writer, but they hired a generalist sports guy instead who isn't filling any niche that the rest of our crap coverage isn't giving us.
