Nick Cotsonika Email & Phone Number

• Cover the NHL from a national perspective as NHL.com's columnist, writing opinions, analyses and features. Focus on depth, color and storytelling to give readers something they don't know and can't find elsewhere, as.
• Help raise the tent pole at big events, including the Stanley Cup Playoffs, NHL All-Star Game, outdoor games and international events.
• Appear on NHL Network, SiriusXM NHL Network Radio and radio stations across North America.
• Goals: increase traffic to NHL.com and grow the NHL's business, converting fans of local teams into fans of the NHL, attracting new fans to the sport and the League.

• Official title: Sunday planner/sports. Led the Sunday sports section, a key part of the biggest edition and largest revenue-driver each week. Helped lead the daily print and digital products.
• Assigned stories, coached writers, ordered space, planned pages, scheduled desk shifts and edited content.
• Took over a section already ranked in the top 10 by the Associated Press Sports Editors and helped it rank in the top 10 again for 2015 and 2016.

• Covered the NHL as the national columnist from July 2010 to June 2015. Produced columns, features, blogs and videos for one of the world’s biggest websites. Focused on depth, color and storytelling to give readers.
• Appeared on radio and TV shows across North America, including “NHL Top 10” on NBCSN.
• Covered the 2014 Sochi Olympics and 2012 London Olympics as the only writer on the ground for Yahoo Sports Canada, writing about different sports for a different audience every day.
• Contributed to coverage of NFL training camps, the NCAA tournament and the MLB playoffs.

• Covered the Lions/NFL beat from July 2005 to June 2010. Wrote columns, features, news and blogs. Ranked in the top 10 on the website consistently. Covered the Super Bowl each year.
• Appeared weekly on the Lions’ pregame radio show on WXYT-AM 1270 and the Lions’ news conference TV broadcast on Fox Sports Detroit. Appeared on radio and TV shows across the country, including “NFL Top 10” on NFL.
• Covered hockey labor issues during the 2004-05 NHL lockout, while parachuting into the Michigan State basketball beat from February to April and working as a general assignment/enterprise writer.
• Covered the Red Wings/NHL beat from September 1999 to July 2004, a time when it was the biggest beat in Detroit because of the Wings’ stars and success. Covered the Stanley Cup finals each year.
• Appeared on “The Season,” a behind-the-scenes ESPN show that followed the 2002-03 Red Wings.
• Covered the Michigan football and basketball beat from May 1998 to September 1999.

• Reported as a national NHL stringer.
• Wrote a three-page interview with Red Wings forward Brett Hull that was teased on the cover in February 2003.
• Wrote for Sports Illustrated for Kids, including a cover story on Mighty Ducks center Sergei Fedorov in February 2004.

• Contributed stories and news items about the Red Wings.

• Freelanced extensively from September 1997 to April 1998. Covered much of Michigan’s 12-0 football season and even wrote the game story when the Wolverines won the 1998 Rose Bowl and a share of the national.
• Interned in the summer of 1997. Covered events ranging from the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis to a President Clinton news conference at the White House. Filled in on beats and wrote enterprise pieces.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: The Michigan Daily, Pi Kappa Alpha• Served as managing sports editor of the Michigan Daily from February 1996 to.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Baseball, Northend, National Honor Society• Wrote for the Oakland Press as a "Check It Out Correspondent" from.