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At 0.9937, Bob McKenzie — filed here as an Athlete, not a Journalist — is the single strongest pull in Darren Dreger's top 10, edging out fellow journalist Pierre LeBrun at 0.9809. Those two form the two-peak structure: a tight pair at the top, with the rest of the field dropping to the 0.91–0.95 range.
Below that pair, the top 10 resolves into a dense hockey-media cluster. TSN Hockey (0.9491), The Hockey News (0.9470), and Hockey Night in Canada (0.9451) represent the broadcast and print infrastructure of the sport. Paul Bissonnette (0.9404) is the second Athlete in the set. Hockey Hall of Fame (0.9162) and the NHL (0.9142) round out the institutional side. Three of the ten neighbors share Dreger's own Journalists subcategory — Pierre LeBrun, John Buccigross (0.9161), and Peter Gammons (0.9137) — but the majority are drawn from other subcategories entirely, all orbiting the same sport. Notably, Gammons covers baseball, not hockey, yet his audience shape lands inside this cluster at 0.9137, suggesting the binding force is sports-journalist audience composition broadly, not hockey fandom alone.
The overall picture is an audience defined almost entirely by hockey media consumption, with a secondary signal from sports journalism across leagues.
