The debate over the value of hockey rumour sites rages on blogs all over the net. My own personal views on anonymous rumour bloggers and other speculation-driven sites aside, I think that's important that we address where the Puckjunkie Blog fits.
Rarely will we ever report a "unique" rumour. That's not our job. Most times what you'll hear from us when it comes to trade/signing speculation will be the fantasy impacts of these rumours. The best example of this would be the two-part entry we did on d-men (July 15th and 20th). None of the rumours in there were new...they have been bandied about on a number of sites for quite a while. What we wanted to do was talk about what could happen to the players' fantasy value if they actually DID happen or, possibly speculate on other homes for these guys based not on what media folks bandy amongst themselves in the dog days of summer, but on team needs, cap space and a small dose of logic.
And that's really where we see our role in this era of the overly speculative bloggers. We have an obligation to our readers to let you know the potential impacts from all these "what-ifs". But that doesn't mean that we'll comment on every crazy rumour out there...and believe me there have been so many wacky ones of late, it's hard to keep up.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kinney, President
Puckjunkie.com
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