Editorial policy
The rules this site runs on. They are not aspirations — they are the checks the publishing process actually enforces.
How a story gets here
A scan runs through the day across a ranked list of hockey sources — the league and its clubs, national insiders, and the beat writers and bloggers worth reading. Where two outlets have the same story, the one closest to the reporting wins. What survives lands in a queue that a person works through by hand.
Excerpt, never reproduce
A post quotes the interesting part of someone else’s article — a couple of paragraphs at most — names the outlet, and links to the original. The point is to send you there, not to save you the trip. If you are a publisher and think a quote here is too long, say so and it will be shortened or removed; see contact.
Accuracy
If something isn’t confirmed, it doesn’t run as though it is. A report from a single insider is presented as that reporter’s claim, with their name on it, and a rumour is a rumour. Headlines say which they are.
Where the AI starts and stops
An assistant does the reading nobody has time for: it scans the feeds, removes duplicates, drops what doesn’t belong, and writes a first draft of each post from the source article.
It publishes nothing. Every post is opened, checked against the source, edited where it needs it, and approved by a person before it appears — and any comment written in the site’s own voice is written by that person, not generated. Where a post carries an editor’s note, a human wrote it.
What gets skipped
Full-game replays and whole broadcasts, minor-league roster churn, and pieces with no real news in them. Press conferences, documentaries and the occasional long read are fair game. The judgement is inherited from twenty years of Kukla’s Korner and is applied by a person, not a formula.
Corrections
Mistakes get fixed on the post itself rather than quietly deleted, and a post that a later report overtakes is updated in place. If you spot something wrong, tell us — that is the fastest way it gets fixed.