We're moving: FTR integrates with SBN Hockey Hub

by Mike Chen on Jan 21, 2011 12:07 PM CST

Here's a pretty big programming announcement: starting Monday, From The Rink will be integrated into the SB Nation hockey hub. If you're curious why, it's really to consolidate writers and resources into a central NHL site for the network. Nothing will really change for readers except that the posts will be at SBNation.com/NHL rather than here (and I believe FromTheRink.com will redirect there). A few other notes:

-If you read FTR via RSS feed, that will change. You'll need to update your feed to the SB Nation NHL Features feed. Also, if you want to receive breaking news, SB Nation NHL Headlines is also worth subscribing to. Note: As of right now, the Feedburner for the Features feed appears to be down. SBN's tech team is aware of the issue.

-If you get your post notifications via Twitter, the FTR Twitter account will stay active. There are some magic interwebs wormholes that will work out, so this might not be the smoothest transition. Same goes for Facebook.

-The archive of FTR posts should be imported over to SBN Hockey. That means that whenever you need to hear the best of uncensored NHL TV broadcasts, you should still be able to find it.

-Finally, with all of the linking out that SBN Hockey does to our network sites, along with the new AM recaps, it's been decided by the higher ups that the Gameday posts will be redundant. From a content perspective, that makes sense, but that means that the six people out there that liked the daily indie rock tunes will miss out. Never fear, dedicated hockey/music half-dozen, I'll figure a way to incorporate good music from obscure bands into the posts.

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I hate having to update my rss feeds … :)

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by Angy on Jan 21, 2011 2:39 PM CST reply actions

I feel your pain — I read EVERYTHING through Google Reader. When blogs move, it upsets my mojo (erm, workday).

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by Mike Chen on Jan 21, 2011 3:44 PM CST up reply actions

I don’t use rss feeds. I just have it as my favourite blog, and boom I’m on here. Now I’ll have to put sbnation.com/nhl on my favourites, tsk.

by AppleSweetRose on Jan 21, 2011 7:00 PM CST up reply actions

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that means that the six people out there that liked the daily indie rock tunes will miss out. Never fear, dedicated hockey/music half-dozen, I’ll figure a way to incorporate good music from obscure bands into the posts.

Please do. My music tastes can always use a shake-up.

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by Dominik on Jan 21, 2011 4:02 PM CST reply actions

Oh ok. This is a good move. I was going to e-mail Tyler about this but then I got lazy. Thanks for saving me the trouble of getting unlazy.

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by PPP on Jan 21, 2011 4:04 PM CST reply actions

Too early to start a “you sold out” chant? Not saying this isn’t a good move, just that I understand the “you sold out” chant is obligatory whenever a blogger changes URLs.

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by Benjamin Massey on Jan 21, 2011 4:05 PM CST reply actions 1 recs