Timing, they say, is everything.
I suppose we’ll never know about the timing behind all this, other than a bunch of obscenely wealthy people decided that we were hampering their efforts to become even wealthier, so we had to go.
In case you’re somewhat confused, the parent corporation for SBN, Vox laid off 7% of its paid staff today, and has cut financial support for 28 of the 34 hockey blogs under the SBN banner. It’s frustrating, infuriating, and heartbreaking, but not surprising. From a knowledge of what this corporation’s been up to over the past few years, to how they work in general, this is the least surprising thing you’ll see all year.