The Hockey Twitter-verse

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Aug 2, 2011 11:00 AM CDT in News

Recently, I have had some users asking me who to follow on Twitter to get the best hockey and Red Wings coverage possible. Instead of continuing to respond individually, I have decided to put together a list of media, bloggers, players, and fans for you to look at and possibly follow. Hopefully this does not render my daily Quick Hits extinct.

Winging It In Motown Bloggers

@WingingItMotown - Official Account
@JJfromKansas - JJ
@Amerinadian19 - Graham
@Apocalyptic0n3 - Josh (me)
@JeffHancock41 - Jeff Hancock
@Donkey_Pawlik - Robocop
@TheRichey - Casey, our former (and fearless (?)) leader

Official Red Wings Accounts

@DetroitRedWings - Official Red Wings account
@commie22 - Mike Commodore
@Sproully93 - Red Wings 2nd-round Draft Pick (#55 Overall) in 2011
@GriffinsHockey - Official account of the Grand Rapids Griffins
@ToledoWalleye - Official account of the Toledo Walleyes
@bbsmith7 - Brendan Smith
@jurky13 - Tomas Jurko

Hockey Media

@DarrenDregger - Darren Dreger of TSN
@ESPN_NHL - ESPN NHL news
@TSNBobMcKenzie - Bob McKenzie of TSN
@dchesnokov - Dmitry Chesnokov
@Real_ESPNLeBrun - Pierre LeBrun of both ESPN and TSN
@iamtrevort - Trevor Thompson of FSD
@JohnKeatingFSD - John Keating, also of FSD
@mirtle - James Mirtle of Globe and Mail

Bloggers

@wyshynski - Greg Wyshynski of Puck Daddy and Yahoo!
@GeorgeMalik - George Malik, Red Wings blogger extraordinaire. Malik.
@JoeYerdonPHT - Joe Yerdon of Pro Hockey Talk on NBCSports.com
@TPLHockey - The Production Line
@HelmStNightmare - Drew from Nightmare on Helm Street
@cwgap_kris - Kris from Snipe Snipe, Dangle Dangle
@detroit4lyferob - Detroit4Lyfe's Rob
@mpetrella - Petrella from TPL
@Lindy72 - Sarah Lindenau of Red Wings Central and The Left Wing Lock

Other Players

@aaronward_nhl - Former Red Wing Aaron Ward
@BizNasty2point0 - Paul Bissonnette of the Coyotes
@D_Mac25 - The Former Grind-Liner Himself, Darren McCarty

Miscellaneous Accounts

@icethetics - Official account for Icethetics, a site dedicated to hockey logos and jerseys
@RedWingsFeed - Everything Red Wings
@CapGeek - Cap Geek
@NotPavelDatsyuk - He's not Pavel Datsyuk

Winging It In Motown Readers

@uvgt2bkdnme - Reader uvgt2bkdnme
@jason_d_price - Reader rock n rye
@andyinsdca - Reader andyinsdca
@lolabythebay - Reader Lola by the Bay

Now, readers, post your Twitter accounts in the comments so that we can fill our Twitter pages with even more ~~bathroom~~ hockey tweets. If you think of anyone we missed, don't feel shy to let us know and call me an idiot for missing the person.

Updates:

2:13PM on 8-2-11: Added @NotPavelDatsyuk to list. More to come later tonight.
2:33PM on 8-2-11: I lied. Something like 15 new accounts added

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well damn -- that was what I wanted :-D

Thank you!!!! -

I also like KuklasKorner

Asheeshy's Twitter

"A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." ~ Calvin (C & H)

by Igorzba on Aug 2, 2011 11:07 AM CDT reply actions

@uvgt2bkdnme

i will probably get 3 new follower requests over the next two weeks heheeh.

Quick Hits is good for people like me who get too lazy in the morning to log into Twitter.

You wanna tell me that to mah face?!

by uvgt2bkdnme on Aug 2, 2011 11:09 AM CDT reply actions

... why can't I find you on Twitter...

typed it in correctly – triple checked

Asheeshy's Twitter

"A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." ~ Calvin (C & H)

by Igorzba on Aug 2, 2011 11:13 AM CDT up reply actions

Worked for me

http://twitter.com/uvgt2bkdnme

Detroit4Lyfe

by Rob Rogacki on Aug 2, 2011 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions

danke

Asheeshy's Twitter

"A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." ~ Calvin (C & H)

by Igorzba on Aug 2, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions

I will continue to need the daily Quick Hits

since I haven’t gotten around to figuring out either Twitter or Facebook. I rely on you for my morning hockey fix. It helps me get my day at work kick-started.

by zfan16 on Aug 2, 2011 11:12 AM CDT reply actions

@jason_d_price

If you don’t like hearing about the Detroit Tigers, you might want to mute me until the fall.

"I'm a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women and breakfast food" - Ron Swanson

by rock n rye on Aug 2, 2011 11:21 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

What is this “Twitter”?

Seriously though, I have not used Twitter yet and I am kind of hoping to stay away from it so… The Daily quick hits is wonderful.

by Hornecker on Aug 2, 2011 11:35 AM CDT reply actions

Even for people who don't have a need to say inane things and terrible jokes on Twitter (like I do)

… it can be a good place for breaking news. You don’t actually ever have to Tweet anything if you don’t want to. Instead, you can use Twitter like a modified RSS feed where you have an account that follows some excellent news sources and you just look at the timeline to get the news and links they’re sharing.

by J.J. from Kansas on Aug 2, 2011 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Just an example, but on the first day of free agency, McKenzie, Wysh, Dreger, and crew were breaking news ten-fifteen minutes before anything ever appeared on any websites.

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Aug 2, 2011 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Exactly

This is the biggest reason why I’m on Twitter (other than the bad jokes that JJ mentioned above). The media guys are really big on breaking news. It’s especially useful for hockey fans considering ESPN doesn’t cover dick related to the NHL.

Detroit4Lyfe

by Rob Rogacki on Aug 2, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions

I’m @andyinsdca (tho you might want to avoid me if you want to avoid comments about the English Premiere League (soccer, especially Arsenal), and drunk ramblings about cigars, booze life and sometimes other random stuff.

I seriously suggest @NotPavelDatsyuk tho. This guy is a riot, like this one from a couple weeks ago": “Welcome back to Detroit, Conklin. We must change your name. There is no Ty in hockey anymore. Now you are Shootout Conklin.”

by andyinsdca on Aug 2, 2011 11:49 AM CDT reply actions

@NotPavelDatsyuk is absolutely hysterical

A must-follow for any Wings fan.

Detroit4Lyfe

by Rob Rogacki on Aug 2, 2011 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions

And I'm down for Arsenal news too

Detroit4Lyfe

by Rob Rogacki on Aug 2, 2011 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions

Someone brought him up in the email chain but he got shot down for some reason. I’ll add him right now.

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Aug 2, 2011 1:12 PM CDT up reply actions

Thanks for the plug guys

And I second the Kukla’s Korner nod. It’s basically just their RSS feed but I like it because I’m terrible about checking my actual RSS feed.

Detroit4Lyfe

by Rob Rogacki on Aug 2, 2011 11:58 AM CDT reply actions

I hate to sound dumb and out of it,

but what is an RSS feed? I see it a lot, but have no idea what it is. I’m giving away my age, but when I learned how to type in high school (Class of 1972), it was on a manual typewriter. I know it’s not rational, but I think I’m going to mess up the universe if I try to do something new on my computer, especially here at work.

by zfan16 on Aug 2, 2011 12:02 PM CDT up reply actions

an RSS feed is basically a personal news feed. So you add yahoo news and cnn news to your RSS feed, then you only have to check that feed instead of both websites to see what the current news is.

twitter can basically accomplish this, by following cnn news, yahoo news. So then you check your twitter page and get all the news that you could ever want. And then if you add the wingingitinmotown twitter, you get all the best red wings news.

I'm a Homer

by holmstrom96 on Aug 2, 2011 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

rec'd

For lying and saying we have the best Wings news. Appreciate it. haha

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Aug 2, 2011 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions

haha

I love this site.

Plus you break down malik, so I don’t have to read the all of his articles in their entirety.

I'm a Homer

by holmstrom96 on Aug 2, 2011 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions

@dethockeyreport

Detroit Hockey Report

by DeathtotheHawks on Aug 2, 2011 12:02 PM CDT reply actions

That made it easy to add everyone

Or at least the ones I actually want to follow.

Mine is @Donkey_Pawlik, not that I ever post much.

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by Robocop on Aug 2, 2011 12:05 PM CDT reply actions

More suggestions

Minor league affiliates @ToledoWalleye & @GriffinsHockey

Neither one tweets much but I think both have been recognized by the official Red Wings account:
Brendan Smith: @bbsmith7
Tomas Jurco: @jurky13

Sarah Lindenau of RedWingsCentral (and her own Left Wing Lock blog) always has terrific prospect info: @Lindy72.

Joe Yerdon has an extensive list of the NHL players on Twitter, if that’s your bag.

FoxSportsDetroit’s Trevor Thompson (@iamtrevort) is great for updates during and right after games, especially when everybody’s freaking out about an injury. Sometimes he’s the reason everybody’s freaking out about an injury.
(Even if you don’t have a smartphone, you can have some Twitter updates sent to your phone as texts. If I’m missing a game, I make sure to have Trev’s comments sent to me. Sometimes his tweets read like a teenage girl’s, though.)

John Keating (@JohnKeatingFSD) is… less useful, still possibly worthwhile.

James @Mirtle of the Globe and Mail is one of the more thoughtful general- hockey print media guys, IMO.

(And I’m @lolabythebay, frequent lurker here and purveyor of lame puns and hastily photoshopped mockery on Twitter.)

by Lola by the Bay on Aug 2, 2011 12:07 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs