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The top 10 neighbors for USA Hockey span hockey-specific media, multi-sport journalists, and sports equipment brands — a mixed cluster with no single dominant neighbor and scores compressed between 0.96 and 0.93.
The shape is flat: Paul Bissonnette leads at 0.96, followed closely by Spittin' Chiclets at 0.96 and John Buccigross at 0.95, but none of these pulls away from the pack. The subcategory breakdown tells the clearest story: journalists are the single largest group in the top 10, with Buccigross joined by no other journalist in the top five — though the broader neighbor set is heavily journalist-weighted. Equipment brands BAUER Hockey (0.95) and CCM Hockey (0.93) represent the Sports brand subcategory. The NHL (0.95) is the only other Sports League in the top 10, and The Hockey News (0.94) rounds out the hockey-media core. Notably, two of the top 10 neighbors — Jayson Stark and Buster Olney, both at 0.93 — are baseball journalists, not hockey figures at all, which signals that the audience shape here is defined as much by a general sports-media consumption pattern as by hockey specificity.
The flat shape, with scores tightly bunched across hockey personalities, hockey brands, a rival league, and cross-sport journalists, suggests an audience that follows the full infrastructure of sports media rather than orbiting a single figure or platform.
