Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Dyche.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest on this episode, but if you are in the hockey world, it is someone you are quite familiar with.

Chris Johnston is an NHL insider for the

athletic, my colleague there, also does work for TSN and has his own podcast, the Chris Johnston

show, for SDPN. Julian McKenzie, also part of the athletic, is a big part of that. I would say,

interestingly enough, as someone who, you know, is an American but now lives in Canada,

it's given me great perspective on Chris Johnson's reputation in the country I now live in.

And if you want the equivalent, because most of the people obviously listen to this podcast,

of course, are living in the United States, you know, in his world, he is the

equivalent of the Adam Schaefters and Adrian Wojernowski's and Jeff Passens and just

insiders who provide a ton of valuable information when it comes to his sport. And with that,

for a hockey preview, I bring in Chris Johnson. Chris, welcome. Good to be here, Richard. Thanks for the

nice introduction. You got it. All right. So I'm going to go, well, let's start very, very broad.

You know, this is a media podcast, Chris. I'm not going to ask you about the third line of the San Jose

sharks. Thank goodness. Yeah. It's like when I go to a cocktail party, I love when I meet someone and the first thing to say is, I don't really know that much about hockey and I'm like, that's great. I mean, I don't need to get into the minutia

with you here. Chris, I need London night's information immediately. All right. Here we go. So, in your

opinion, like, where is hockey right now as's a whopper out of the gate.

I mean, it's for me, I can measure it.

I'm roughly 20 years into my career, uh, doing this.

And so, and before that, obviously I was a big hockey fan.

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