What if the hockey media never wrote about trade rumors? What if hockey reporters never allowed you the fan and reader behind the scenes or in on some of the numerous nuggets of info they gather from sources every day? What if all you got to read when you hop online or on social media were game stories and straight, opinion-free puff features? Would you still look forward to reading your daily dose of hockey news? Would those pieces get you through the monotony of the work day or would the stories themselves become monotonous?
The guess here is that the masses would complain in unison that the hockey media had become boring and that there would be an outcry for the buzz and excitement that trade rumors create.