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I STARTED READING THE Hockey News more than a half-century ago when I was six years old. In 2009 and then again in 2014, I had met with the then-owner of The Hockey News, Transcontinental, to see if they would sell it to me, but we were not able to come to terms. Then in 2015, The Hockey News, along with a portfolio of other magazines, was sold off to Quebecor’s TVA Publications. In 2018, and on my third attempt, I acquired The Hockey News. What came with the acquisition was the iconic brand, an incredible archive spanning seven decades, a dedicated and loyal base of subscribers and the very best sports journalists and editors in the world. Clearly a foundation was already there to build upon, however there were obvious…