Heard of this guy @HockeyyInsiderr? Me neither until someone who was interested by his L.A. Kings tweets pointed him out to me. I looked at the tweets he writes. He has over 20,000 followers. He claims his qualifications as:
Worked for 4 NHL teams. Many contacts within the league. Collaborateur sur Vestiaire.ca Remain anonymous. Trade breaker. Hockeyy_Insiderr@hotmail.com
I know what you’re thinking. What the hell is Vestiaire.ca? It’s some hockey site where they write in French and my bad French isn’t good enough to understand their French. Oh, that’s not what you were thinking? You were thinking what kind of authority on anything has a hotmail.com account? Well, there is no arguing that. Right there, this cat loses massive credibility.
I took about 20 minutes to look at his tweets. What I see is this: He takes common knowledge about certain players that are being shopped or need to be moved by their team, looks at other teams that may fit the bill and then tweets about how team 1 has talked with team 2 about player 3. For example, how long have people talked about Jonathan Bernier being moved? Especially after the Quick contract, right? So he takes that, claims Edmonton has made an offer, throws in Toronto, adds a Shane Doan angle for good measure and off it goes. Here are his Tweets:
Interesting? Sure. If you and I were standing at a bar, I walked by you and whispered, “Jonathan Bernier, Oilers, Shane Doan to Kings” and kept walking, you would follow me and say, “hey, you handsome devil, what are you talking about?” Right? Take out the handsome part, replace it with a Men In Black profile and a question mark and you have this.
Guess, repackage, guess some more, claim breaking news as your own minutes after someone from TSN, etc. breaks it. Oh and over hype the whole thing when one of your guesses hits. No way that could work, right? Some make a pretty decent living perpetuating this bullshit.
But I am not writing this article to call out this guy or gal or collective circle jerks trying to emulate Eklund’s business model. What I am interested in is to see if this guy actually has the balls to come on our site, comment and tell us why any L.A. Kings fan should read a word he says and why we should believe any of the L.A. Kings related rumors. Hey, we just won the Stanley Cup. We are the Kings of hockey. If there is one fan base that should be at the top of everyone’s list of guys and gals to impress and win over, it’s us. We aren’t just the flavor of the month. We are the whole damn ice cream store at the moment.
Look, I know he couldn’t have fucked up the Parise and Suter signings any more if he tried. I went back and read those and, well, I laughed. But this isn’t about those two losers. This is about Jonathan Bernier and our Kings. This is about Doan coming here or not, the offers to him, the things we care about the most.
If he doesn’t come, and I will send this to his Twitter account, he will confirm himself as what I believe him to be. Another Eklund but even worse. Eklund was a bit of an innovator in the industry. We are all familiar with garbage collectors but Eklund actually managed to make money delivering the garbage. This HockeyyInsiderr guy, outside of the extra y and r, is picking up your neighbor’s trash and selling it door to door.
Or are you? Are you legit? There is your challenge. This very popular L.A. Kings blog thinks you are full of shit. Come here and tell us why we are wrong.
Categories: L.A. Kings News
Tags: @hockeyyinsiderr twitter account, Jonathan Bernier, LA Kings, Shane Doan
There’s one other thing to prove his lack of credibility: back in the Carter/Johnson swap, it came out that CBJ didn’t think too highly of Bernier, partly because he wasn’t tested enough at the NHL level. That hasn’t changed. And now that they surrendered three draft picks for Bobrovsky, why would they have ANY interest in Bernier? It makes zero sense even if LA were shopping Bernier, which they aren’t. It makes zero sense if they were interested in Nash, which I’m almost certain they aren’t.
He’s just trying to appease the rumor mongers. But his Bernier/Nash rumor pretty much proves that he has zero sources. Heck, I don’t have any sources whatsoever and I know that CBJ doesn’t want Bernier, and that’s why LA went for Carter instead of Nash.
Munches popcorn…
Surely, there can’t be THAT many guys contributing to that place that match his pedigree.
This all looks like delusions of grandeur. Inposters sometime grow to the point that it becomes a ponzi scheme. So we caught a Berni Madoff of hockey. Lock him up and throw away the key.
You must have missed this:
http://downgoesavery.blogspot.com/2012/07/sources-say-you-just-got-scammed.html?spref=tw&m=1
I am starting to think you might be hockeyyinsiderr. Your spelling isn’t very good and you like to talk shit
Content really suffers around here in the off season. =/
Oh well, who gives a shit. We have the fuckin’ cup!
Hey, hey, I thought my discussion with Shane Doan was mildly interesting.
Meh, not much you can do really when there aren’t even trade rumors to analyze for merits to the team or even potential trades to fantasize about. You can’t write “cup repeat” articles once a week for the rest of the summer either.
One thing I’d like to see, though, is some analysis of our prospects, including the ones at the end of their contract and where their going. Didn’t you have a contributor that was supposed to keep us apprised of Monarch happenings? Go crack the whip!
This is the first year in many I didn’t go to development camp. I’ve tried to think of things to write, but even the few issues there are (Bernier, Doan, 4th line left wing spot, prospects) just don’t sound too interesting to me right now. I only care about remembering and savoring the cup win, and to be perfectly honest, the cup run wiped me the fuck out, cleanly. I put a ton of stuff of life stuff on hold for nearly 2 months and about 2 weeks after we won the cup, I tried to think about the Kings and found myself with a blank expression parading around my face and a soid stream of drool congealing on the floor below the corner of my mouth.
So I do apologize to you and the rest of this site’s readers for the past few weeks of the doldrums around here. Know though that this cup hangover malaise can only last so long, and by the time training camp starts and there is real hockey to worry about again, the auantity and quality of articles will shoot right back up to and above the mean.
To be fair to myself though, I’ve tried to read some of the stuff that the rest of the Kings writers’ are putting up in an effort not to be quickly forgotten, and I find absolutely none of it appealing or interesting. Now I have this opinion in general of some, but this offseason is about one thing and one thing only, following the Cup. That’s the only thing I’ve cared the least bit about, seeing the players have their days with the Cup.
Why?
BECAUSE WE WON THE FUCKING THING!
Got some pics Pearson and Toffoli and the rest of the young guns at the development camp Sunday. No goals but the last 10 minutes of the scrimmage was pretty rowdy. Good way to start a season I suppose.
Even when the two of you suck, you’re still pretty damn good…
Surley. I’m with you. Stiil crying about winning the cup and don’t give a shit about summer rumor mills, camps, etc. You could write about the Kopi Cup videos. Apparently “boat” in Slovenian is “clitoris”. That’s worth a blog.
exsqueeze me? Says who? I can not, but would like to, confirm this. I know Serbians, they’re language is close, and I can say ‘cunt’ in Serbian, so I got that going for me.
I can say “cunt” in English.
This guy @HockeyyInsiderr . . .
amen nigga
I think Vesitaire means “like to take it in the bung” in French. The world really needs another Eklund! What a nightmare. At least with Ek, you have to have some small respect for the great scam he created for himself. Sometimes, I am drawn there for no explicable reason (although always disappointed or disgusted). Loudmouth Barry does come with some clever and funny shit from time to time.You guys rock. Loved the Doan thing.
Bernier to the Oil? Of course, he said that THEY had offered… ANY trade rumors involving
Kings/Oil or Kings/Blues pretty suspect. Phi. I might believe…
Hi this is Hockeyy Insiderr. I accept your challenge.
Vlasic
wolski
suter and parise
jagr
carle
salvador
garrison
schultz
prust+crosby+quick!
roy for ott
crosby
staal
schenn jvr
JJ Daigneault
penner
Therrien
Gauthier
List of some of the stories I broke… (over the last month).
^^^^^^^^^^^^ @HockeyyInsiderr just pwned you.
You do realize he is “breaking” news after it is already reported right? And covering his ass with incorrect reporting. No? Do some research.
Edit: Just realized you are a Canucks fan. Disregard comment. Proceed with myopia.
Yeah, I tweeted that Suter and Parise were both going to Minnesota on July 4th too. This fucking guy.
It’s Louis Jean.
#CONFIRMED
i’ll be honest, i think he’s a bit of a douche but he’s legit, or managed to BS a lot when he’s right. You’re going to just look like an idiot for writing this article… along with everyone else that has written something similar. Great example is his prediction that Nashville would match, and he said it a long time before the offer sheet came out that “NSH will match any offer sheet.” But with that said, I think he’ll lose his sources very quickly.
Great post, . I’m sure Pat is proud of you. I set a goal to blog way more this year. Now that I’ve got these templates in a listing, I don’t have to stress so much on switching up my style of posts. Thanks!