Chris Nichols has been Sportsnet.ca's fantasy hockey writer since 2007. He writes a Hockey Hearsay blog there each weekday, all 12 months of the year. Every game night during the regular season he runs down the action in his Live NHL Recaps too. He went pro in the poolie writing world back in 2002 with ESPN.com and was with Canoe.ca/ SLAM! for a number of years as well. Chris has a radio broadcasting background that began in his hometown of Edmonton, which is also where his love of hockey was born. Free time fun generally involves the Xbox 360 and his EASHL hockey team, which finished EA NHL 11 ranked all-time in the mid 200s worldwide.