Just a little annoyed so I thought I’d drop this here. The Athletic does an annual ranking of NHL teams’ prospect pools written by Scott Wheeler. He drags the whole thing out over 32 days. One team per day. Today he drops his Red Wings review after 31 days and it’s literally 90% copy and pasted from last years’ article (and the year before and the year before). Word for word. I get in the comments and say what a rip off it is (I wasn’t the only one) and of course the writer, who was all over the other comments, doesn’t respond and half the subscribers are like “if you don’t like it why don’t you cancel”. When I signed up it was $10 bucks a month and now it’s $2, so I canceled and signed up again at the lower rate. I’d suggest you do the same if you’re tired of paying for bad sports journalism.

I submitted a comment in their “feedback” section of the site and immediately got an email soliciting “Premium Advertising” opportunities. Nothing at all in response to my complaint.

Im posting this in case 1) anyone is paying at the old (higher) rate, or 2) is thinking about subscribing for the hockey coverage. Don’t pay full price if you’re just going to get the same regurgitated articles. There’s a reason they keep losing money. They treat subscribers like they’re disposable and their editorial standards are awful. Buyer beware.