Greg Wyshynski (born March 20, 1977) is an American sportswriter and radio personality, best known for creatingYahoo! Sports’ ice hockey blogPuck Daddy. He has written two books,Glow Pucks and 10-Cent Beer andTake Your Eye Off the Puck.
Wyshynski is a 1999 graduate ofUniversity of Maryland's College of Journalism. In 2000, he started working forThe Connection Newspapers of Northern Virginia and spent nearly ten years as a writer and editor there, rising through the ranks to executive sports editor.[1] While atThe Connection, Wyshynski received over 50 Virginia Press Association awards, including four first-place citations for sports column writing.[2]
During this time, Wyshynski branched out into other sports writing, serving as an editor forSportsFan magazine and writing a weekly syndicated sports column, "The Jester’s Quart". In 2006, Wyshynski signed on with AOL Sports’FanHouse as anNHL writer. He also wrote the weekly "NHL Closer" forDeadspin under the editorWill Leitch.[citation needed]
In 2008, Wyshynski leftThe Connection and joinedYahoo! Sports full-time. As the editor-in-chief ofPuck Daddy, he became the first blogger ever named toThe Hockey News "100 People of Power and Influence" list.[3] 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 theProfessional Hockey Writers Association.
Wyshynski covered theWorld Hockey Summit 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.[4]
In 2011, Wyshynski partneredJeff Marek of Sportsnet to createMarek Vs. Wyshynski, a daily live hockey podcast. He has also appeared as a guest on many podcasts, including Slate'sHang Up and Listen,The B.S. Report,Doug Loves Movies,The Stars Wars Minute and NPR’sThe Weigh In.[citation needed]
On September 29, 2017, Wyshynski announced his resignation from Yahoo! Sports, and that he was leavingPuck Daddy to the site's other writers.[5] It was subsequently announced that he would join ESPN as an NHL analyst and reporter forESPN.com.[6] Prior to ESPN regainingNHL media rights, he had hosted 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).
Wyshynski is a native ofMatawan, New Jersey, and resides in theSan Francisco Bay Area.[7][8] Since childhood, he has been a fan of theNew Jersey Devils.[9]
He is married and has one daughter from a previous relationship.
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