ESPN reports that Niklas Hagman "was traded to Calgary midway through the 2009-10 season in a deal that brought Dion Phaneuf from Toronto." Phaneuf, who has earned nominations as the NHL's top rookie and top defenseman, was actually traded to Toronto, from Calgary, in surely one of the most surprising hockey trades of the last two years, if not the last decade. The error has been up on ESPN for 22 hours and isn't mentioned in a single comment. This is interesting because it shows both that Canadians don't follow ESPN and that Anaheim fans and writers don't follow hockey.
If any of them did, one of them might have read this.
As a Capitals fan, it's nice to have shaken the stigma of living in a town that hasn't always been a home to the NHL. Let's hope ESPN doesn't impose that stigma on Anaheim now.
Of course, there is certainly one imaginable scenario in which Anaheim fans actually are hockey fans in spite of not noticing which team ESPN says the Leafs' top defenseman plays for: maybe they just don't read ESPN.
