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Greg Wyshynski (born March 20, 1977) is an American sportswriter and radio personality, best known for creating
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’ ice hockey blog ''Puck Daddy''. He has written two books, ''Glow Pucks and 10-Cent Beer'' and ''Take Your Eye Off the Puck''.


Career


Early career

Wyshynski is a 1999 graduate of University of Maryland's College of Journalism. In 2000, he started working for ''The Connection Newspapers'' of Northern Virginia and spent nearly ten years as a writer and editor there, rising through the ranks to executive sports editor. While at ''The Connection'', Wyshynski received over 50 Virginia Press Association awards, including four first-place citations for sports column writing. During this time, Wyshynski branched out into other sports writing, serving as an editor for ''SportsFan'' magazine and writing a weekly syndicated sports column, "The Jester’s Quart". In 2006, Wyshynski signed on with AOL Sports’ ''
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'' as an NHL writer. He also wrote the weekly "NHL Closer" for '' Deadspin'' under the editor Will Leitch.


Yahoo! Sports

In 2008, Wyshynski left ''The Connection'' and joined
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full-time. As the editor-in-chief of ''Puck Daddy'', he became the first blogger ever named to ''The Hockey News'' "100 People of Power and Influence" list. He covered the Vancouver, London, Sochi and Rio de Janeiro Olympics for Yahoo! Sports, as a general columnist for the 2012 and 2016 Games. Wyshynski is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Wyshynski covered the
World Hockey Summit The World Hockey Summit was an international ice hockey conference held in Toronto on August 23–26, 2010. It was arranged by the International Ice Hockey Federation, Hockey Canada, USA Hockey, the National Hockey League (NHL), the Canadian Ho ...
in 2010. He felt that too much discussion was about how money is involved in the game, and that panelists were not compelling and did not engage in constructive dialogue. He felt an opportunity was missed to discuss promoting the game via electronic media including television and video games, and to appeal to new audiences by breaking down cultural barriers. In 2011, Wyshynski partnered
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of Sportsnet to create ''Marek Vs. Wyshynski'', a daily live hockey podcast. He has also appeared as a guest on many podcasts, including Slate's ''Hang Up and Listen'', ''The B.S. Report'', ''Doug Loves Movies'', ''The Stars Wars Minute'' and NPR’s ''The Weigh In''.


ESPN

On September 29, 2017, Wyshynski announced his resignation from Yahoo! Sports and that he was leaving ''Puck Daddy'' to the site's other writers. It was subsequently announced that he would join ESPN as an NHL analyst and reporter for
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. He currently does one podcast, "ESPN On Ice" with fellow ESPN hockey reporter Emily Kaplan. Unfortunately due to ESPN contract restrictions he no longer co-hosts the top ranking hockey podcast "Puck Soup", with hockey writer Sean McIndoe (commonly known by the pseudonym "Down Goes Brown") of The Athletic and Ryan Lambert (formerly of Yahoo! Sports).


Personal life

Wyshynski is a native of
Matawan, New Jersey Matawan is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A historic community located near the Raritan Bay in the much larger Raritan Valley region, the borough is a commuter town of New York City within the New York Metropol ...
, and resides in the
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. Since childhood, he has been a fan of the
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. He is married and has one daughter from a previous relationship.


Books

*''Glow Pucks & 10-Cent Beer: The 101 Worst Ideas in Sports History'', published in April 2006 by Taylor Trade. *''Take Your Eye Off the Puck'', published in November 2015 by Triumph Books. *''The 100 Greatest Players In NHL History (And Other Stuff): An Arbitrary Collection of Arbitrary Lists'', published in January 2017 by Amazon Kindle eBooks.


References

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