How competitive is the NHL beat? Featuring The Athletic and TSN NHL insider Pierre LeBrun

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Episode 339 of the Sports Media Podcast features Pierre LeBrun, a senior NHL columnist for The Athletic and an NHL Insider for TSN Canada. In this podcast LeBrun discusses the biggest story in the NHL in 2023-24; the most under-covered story in the league; why he is picking a Toronto-Edmonton Stanley Cup Final; how competitive the space is for an NHL insider; his fondness for wire service reporting; how much news he gets from agents versus front offices versus players; his experience working at ESPN; why so many Canadian sports media people see working in the United States as more of a destination than Canada and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.8	hey everybody this is richard i'm welcome to the sports media podcast my My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest this week, it is focused on the NHL because the NHL starts this week and I wanted to get some NHL content on this podcast. Pierre LeBron has been a senior NHL columnist for the Athletics since 2017. He's an NHL insider for TSN and has been so since 2011, was a hockey
1:31.7	night in Canada panelists for a long time, and of course worked as a writer and an insider
1:37.6	for ESPN. So someone with experience on both sides of the border, we had a great conversation
1:43.2	just on the biggest stories of the year in the NHL, why Pierre likes the Oilers and the Maple Leafs in the Stanley
1:48.8	Cup final. We talk about being a hockey insider versus being, let's say, an NFL or an NBA
1:53.7	insider, talked a little bit about just the reporting process when it comes to hockey.
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