I’m feeling you. I just think he did what he could while covering two other aspects of the game—I dare say Laing’s injury, once discovered ,was the paramount interest— and submitting his recap for deadline.

There is no way TEB’s coverage can compete with the Rink While this is painfully obvious enough, I’d rather his head not get bashed in at every turn.

Tyler, you’re making me defend the Post which I loathe to do. I hope you appreciate that.

Let me try to explain to you how reporting for a newspaper works. You attend an event (sporting or otherwise), then you talk with people after said event, then you write your article and submit it before a deadline.

Following the event last night, where a player scoring his 50th goal is a pretty big event, said reporter talks to the coach of the Caps and the player himself…both say he is fine, he just got the wind knocked out of him. So reporter submits his article for deadline. Following submission of his article he posts additional information to his blog, since the Caps aren’t a big ticket article (not even page one on the Sports page) there is typically a maximum number of words for the article. Anywho, on said blog TEB’s assistance posts the following at 10:04, or shortly after the game ended:

“Tarik will be back in a bit with notes, quotes and an update on Green, who headed to the locker room early after a hit from Steven Stamkos in the third.”

Then, at 11:30, TEB posts (titled: Update on Green) http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalsinsider/2009/03/update_on_green.html

Then, at 10:17 this morning, TEB posts another update…regarding how he now suspects it’s more than having “the wind knocked out” that was previously reported.

My bottom line is why are you so hell bent against the Post? Did you see mention of Green leaving the game elsewhere?