Alumni in the pros 25-26

[stereax]

Malinski still out

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Malinski still out

Despite not playing, Malinski and the Avs advance to the WCF after coming back from an 0-3 deficit to win 4-3 in OT.

[Chris '03]

Rough night for Ottawa alumnae. Jenner missed an empty net with about ninety seconds to go. Montreal tied it with two seconds left. And won it in ot after a Guilday turnover.

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Malinski still out

Despite not playing, Malinski and the Avs advance to the WCF after coming back from an 0-3 deficit to win 4-3 in OT.

They'll be facing the Golden Knights!

[ACM]

Not quite "alumni" or "pros", but it's on the ECAC's Instagram, so it's gotta be correct, right?

Great Britain in the IIHF World Championships.

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McNally's final article for the Sun.

[scoop85]

McNally's final article for the Sun.

Terrific, as expected.

[Chris H82]

McNally's final article for the Sun.

As expected, a solid piece and a tearjerker to boot!

When, not if, Jane goes to work somewhere as a paid writer on hockey, I vote that we note her articles in future "Alumni in the pros" threads. She'll be an alumni, and a professional writer, and a damn good one.

[Trotsky]

McNally's final article for the Sun.

It's an awful piece, but she is entitled to one stinker.

The best thing about McNally is she has never written a piece like this before and never will again.  While mawkish blowhards  and talentless typists like Dan Shaughnessy and Mitch Albom reel them out weekly over 40-year careers, McNally never takes the easy way or the cheap derpy angle when she writes a real column.  She's a great analyst and a compelling writer, and she is worth reading.

Hopefully she'll keep doing that, and there will be a market for it.  1% of sportswriting is worth more than monitor toilet paper, and her work is in that category over half the time.  I cannot think of another sportswriter, ever, who fits this description. 

She's allowed her victory lap; it probably felt icky writing it but the pigs expect, and monetize, their slop.  Now, go out into the world and make sports journalism more than just the lazy, cliche mixture of sports marketing and overheated soap opera it has been for a century.

[BearLover]

You all realize Jane writes for the school paper, right? She's a college student. Pretty sure she doesn't want nor need this level of praise or criticism.

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You all realize Jane writes for the school paper, right? She's a college student. Pretty sure she doesn't want nor need this level of praise or criticism.

Counterpoint: have you read any of the slop the Devils' "beat reporters" put out? Novozinsky, Nichols, and Amoia the chief offenders.

Compared to that...

[scoop85]

McNally's final article for the Sun.

It's an awful piece, but she is entitled to one stinker.

The best thing about McNally is she has never written a piece like this before and never will again.  While mawkish blowhards  and talentless typists like Dan Shaughnessy and Mitch Albom reel them out weekly over 40-year careers, McNally never takes the easy way or the cheap derpy angle when she writes a real column.  She's a great analyst and a compelling writer, and she is worth reading.

Hopefully she'll keep doing that, and there will be a market for it.  1% of sportswriting is worth more than monitor toilet paper, and her work is in that category over half the time.  I cannot think of another sportswriter, ever, who fits this description. 

She's allowed her victory lap; it probably felt icky writing it but the pigs expect, and monetize, their slop.  Now, go out into the world and make sports journalism more than just the lazy, cliche mixture of sports marketing and overheated soap opera it has been for a century.

Sorry, hard disagree from me.

[adamw]

McNally's final article for the Sun.

It's an awful piece, but she is entitled to one stinker.

The best thing about McNally is she has never written a piece like this before and never will again.  While mawkish blowhards  and talentless typists like Dan Shaughnessy and Mitch Albom reel them out weekly over 40-year careers, McNally never takes the easy way or the cheap derpy angle when she writes a real column.  She's a great analyst and a compelling writer, and she is worth reading.

Hopefully she'll keep doing that, and there will be a market for it.  1% of sportswriting is worth more than monitor toilet paper, and her work is in that category over half the time.  I cannot think of another sportswriter, ever, who fits this description. 

She's allowed her victory lap; it probably felt icky writing it but the pigs expect, and monetize, their slop.  Now, go out into the world and make sports journalism more than just the lazy, cliche mixture of sports marketing and overheated soap opera it has been for a century.

never change bro

[Weder]

This is beside the point, but the traditional "farewell column" at many college papers is a no-win situation. Either they come across as navel-gazing or you don't do one and everyone who expected to be thanked feels slighted.

[pfibiger]

You all realize Jane writes for the school paper, right? She's a college student. Pretty sure she doesn't want nor need this level of praise or criticism.

I have to ask —- do you feel like this doesn't apply to students who play for the college varsity hockey team?