BCHabnut Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Is it worth the 5 bucks a month? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMAC Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Best coverage around right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmethead Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 100% was sick and tired of the basic garbage reporting for the gazette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 Yup, seems pretty good site for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomh009 Posted July 2, 2019 Share Posted July 2, 2019 The Athletic is awesome. Yes, it's subscription, but someone's got to pay for journalism. The newspapers are posting the same AP stories or doing small snippets to get ad revenues, in-depth daily coverage is sadly lacking. The Athletic will do 2-3 longer stories (by different writers) on every Habs game, plus in-depth stories on a variety of topics. Not every story is great but there are so many good ones that it's easily worth the dollar-and-a-bit per week that it costs. I think they still have a one-month (or was it one week?) trial -- try it out and see for yourself. I think you will be impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCHabnut Posted July 2, 2019 Author Share Posted July 2, 2019 I bought it. It seen as worth it for sure. Just to read basu and gain is so nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Puck Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 I just signed up. They had a sale going: 1st year at half price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habscout Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I debated signing up then took the plunge during a Black Friday sale. It is worth it, even at full price ( I am over 1 1/2 years subscribing now). As someone said the daily coverage is very good, similar to what the Gazette used to be durng the hay days of the Habs (1950's through 1970's) I used to be a faithful Hockey News subscriber for many years but found I did not read much of the non-Habs stories so it felt like a waste. With the Athletic, if you follow a team in another major sport then they have beat writers covering them. So you get more value from it in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazy26 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I signed up last week, and am loving it so far. Despite it being a quiet time of year, I'm impressed with the quantity and quality of the articles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMAC Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 11 hours ago, habscout said: As someone said the daily coverage is very good, similar to what the Gazette used to be durng the hay days of the Habs (1950's through 1970's) I said something like this on the Athletic site the other day and I might have mentioned it on here in a rant against that no talent hack Brendon Kelly whose every word as a Gazette “sports writer” is an insult to the memory of Red Fischer and the journalistic integrity of what used to be a great paper. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Trizzak Posted April 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2020 Arpon Basu responded to my ridiculous question in his latest mailbag article, so the cost of subscribing has been well worth it for me. 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toronthab Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Has it gone viral????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredoh2009 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Toronthab said: Has it gone viral????? *cough* *cough* good question *cough* *cough* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toronthab Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 6 hours ago, alfredoh2009 said: *cough* *cough* good question *cough* *cough* Hacker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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