by Steven Dontigny

Created on: February 04, 2009

Hockeybuzz.com is a website dedicated to reporting on the National Hockey league, The NHL. The website has reporters that follow each team and their day to day activities, but is best known for the reputation of the founder as being an informant of trade rumors.

Hockeybuzz.com was created by Eklund during the lock out year and has progressively grown into one of the best hockey themed sites on the internet.

The main attraction of this site is the rumors, but where do they come from? As quoted from the site "Eklund has an ever growing list of contacts in the hockey world. What started as a few key sources during the lockout Eklunds relationships have spread to virtually every major hockey city at all levels of the sport from players, to coaches, to GMs, to owners, to other media members, to executives and player agents. Eklund works tirelessly in an attempt to find the most up-to-the-second information from within the hockey world. He believes in reporting any significant discussions that he hears in regards to player movement no matter how minor or how realistic it is in his own opinion. If the information is coming from a strong source with a solid history of good information Eklund will post it because believes that half the fun of sports is discussing whether or not all of the armchair GMs out there should make the move."

Keeping the fact that he reports any significant discussions no matter how realistic in mind, the website is heavily scrutinized for the lack of accuracy in which the trades occur. However one must look at the rating system in order to understand why accuracy is not key.

The system as described by the website is as follows:

The E-System was devised with the intelligent hockey fan in mind as a way for Eklund to give subtle clues to rumors that are posted, as well as gauge the likelihood of a rumor turning into an actual trade or free agent signing.

E1 - This is a rumor that comes from a single reliable source not in any way directly connected to the players or teams involved.

E2 - This rumor is simply more than one reliable sources not in any way directly connected to the players or teams involved andnot connected to each other. It does not have to equate to two E1s. It could be several E1s.

E3 - This rumor comes from a single source with ties somehow to the players or teams involved.

E4 - This rumor comes from more than one source with ties to the players or teams involved.

E5 - This rumor comes from source telling Eklund the deal is 100% done and

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