We can’t expect every single sports editor in every single newspaper news room in the United States to know every little detail about the NHL, its teams and its players, right? Especially not a paper that doesn’t even send a writer to road games to cover the local team, right?
Nashville Paper Thinks Pavel Datsyuk Is A Defenseman
I mean, we’re talking minor details here -- like, for example, the position of some player from some town other than his or her own who was drafted 171st overall in the 1998 draft. Not a big deal if you confused that forward for being a defenseman, of course. Small mistake.
Oh, wait. You mean that guy drafted 171st overall in ‘98 has won four straight Lady Byng trophies, three straight Selke trophies, two Stanley Cups and a Hart trophy? You mean, someone at a newspaper in Nashville thought Pavel Datsyuk was a defenseman?
Yep. That happened.
How the hell did that happen? Well, our guess is that this guy, who clearly shouldn’t be writing headlines for a paper in an NHL city, read only the lede of the AP copy the paper was running that day and drew his conclusions from there.
DETROIT (AP)—Usually a set-up man, Pavel Datsyuk has suddenly turned into quite a goal scorer.
Datsyuk had two goals and an assist to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night.
“Oh, not really a goal scorer? Guy must play defense.”
*type type*
Nashville fans: you might want to stick with other sources for your Preds coverage.
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