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I hope you are not counting on the local media to cover it by wearendhockey

The Tribune hasn't effectively covered the program since Jackson's first few years. Part of it is the paper is a shell of its former self and has almost no reporting staff left. The correspondent who covers games does a good job, but it isn't like he can assign himself to more extensive coverage, unless he wants to do it for free I suppose. I peppered the paper about some more in-depth coverage, at least a postmortem on another mostly disappointing season and have heard nothing but silence. My guess is the next article you see in the Tribune will be a copy of a press release announcing captains or a season schedule in the fall.