Hitting the buzzer on Hockey Buzz

One of the sites we have linked to is 'Hockey Buzz' (see left). It's a site run by 'Eklund', a guy who claims to have insider contacts throughout the league that feed him a variety of rumours and innuendo that he then classifies with his own rating system. Eklund's reputation was built during the lockout when he seemed to have lots of info (mostly reliable) on what was going on - especially in the players camp.

But now? He's something of a joke.

Here's a look at his predictions for just one guy - Mats Sundin, as compiled by David Johnson at 'Hockey Analysis' (a site I link to immediately after Hockey Buzz).

The post is quite lengthy, in part because Eklund has reported so voluminously on Sundin, and spared no effort in fielding any and all of his speculations.

One of his commenters (James Goneaux) summarized it as follows;

"Let’s just add up the teams he says Sundin may be going to:

1 Colorado
2 NY Rangers
3 Montreal
4 Vancouver
5 Philly
6 Chicago
7 St. Louis
8 Toronto
9 Washington
10 Entire “Central Division”
11 Buffalo
12 Detroit
13 Ottawa
14 Calgary

So, that’s half the league."

So not only is Eklund running an eyesore of a sight drenched in ads and unecessary video that starts to play immediately upon loading and rife with 2nd rate writers and gossip mongers, he fails even the most basic smell test when it comes to making predictions.

Here's a prediction, I predict I won't be taking anything I read on his site without ingesting a industrial barrel full of NACL first. Book it.