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Workrate Hockey - July 22, 2025

The Athletic's hockey announcer ratings are out. Plus, a question for the subscribers.

Tom Edwards

22 Jul 2025 — 4 min read

Mike's going to kill me.

Broadcast News

The Athletic posted its yearly ranking of NHL broadcast teams, as rated by fans both within the market and outside. The methodology is obviously unscientific, left to the whims of opinionated local fans who care enough to rate a broadcast and the hardcore sickos that watch enough of another team's broadcast to form an opinion on it.

Workrate Hockey - July 31, 2025

Carolina loves Russians, writers play the hits, and Don Waddell spills the tea about Adam Fox.

Workrate Hockey - July 29, 2025

We talk about some minor signings, some terminology, and a dead wrestler. It's slow.

Workrate Hockey - July 25, 2025

Guys, I'm beginning to think that Jackson Blake is sticking around.

A History of Recent NHL Expansion (aka Making It Up As We Go Along)

The NHL expanded three times in three years in the early 90s. They had no idea how to do it.