The top 10 neighbors for TJ Oshie are dominated by sports journalists and TV personalities — not fellow athletes. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; a score near 0.92 means the audiences look nearly identical in shape.
The flat shape means no single neighbor pulls far ahead of the rest. Scores run from 0.92 down to 0.88 across the top 10, a tight band with no structural spike. Buster Olney (0.92) and Tim Kurkjian (0.91) sit at the top, both sports journalists. Karl Ravech (0.91) and Mike Pereira (0.90) follow as TV personalities, with Jayson Stark (0.89) adding a third journalist to the cluster. Together, journalists account for four of the top 10 and TV personalities for three more. The remaining three slots go to USA Hockey (0.89), a sports league; Dave Portnoy (0.88), a professional; and Spittin' Chiclets (0.88), a hockey podcast — the only neighbor with a direct sport-specific connection to hockey. No other athlete appears in the top 10.
The pattern points to an audience shaped primarily by sports media consumption — journalists and broadcasters who cover multiple sports — rather than by hockey fandom or athlete-following alone.