The Nation Network on June 3, 2026, announced a new partnership with puckpedia, adding the hockey data site’s salary cap, contract, and roster-management tools to its media ecosystem. The deal is aimed at giving editors and audiences more detailed coverage of NHL business decisions, from trades to waiver moves.
Jay Downton on PuckPedia
Jay Downton, co-founder and CEO of The Nation Network, said PuckPedia has built “tremendous trust” in hockey by delivering “accurate, detailed, and easy-to-understand salary cap and contract information.”
He said bringing that expertise into The Nation Network ecosystem helps create more value for hockey fans by combining reporting, analysis, storytelling, and roster-management tools. The Nation Network said its media ecosystem includes Daily Faceoff, team-specific brands, podcasts, video content, newsletters, and social platforms.
Hart Levine and broader reach
Hart Levine, founder of PuckPedia, said the partnership will bring PuckPedia’s trusted salary cap, contract, and roster-management tools to a broader audience through engaged hockey media brands. PuckPedia launched in 2018, and the site has become a resource for hockey fans, media members, agents, and professionals across the sport.
The Nation Network said the integration should deepen editorial coverage around the trade deadline, free agency, the NHL Draft, arbitration season, waiver activity, roster cuts, and buyout windows. That is the friction point in the deal: the value is not just more data, but whether those tools get woven into day-to-day reporting across text, video, and audio instead of sitting beside it.
Daily Faceoff and hockey coverage
The Nation Network said the partnership strengthens its position in hockey information and analysis. It also said the agreement integrates PuckPedia into its editorial and video content, which could make cap sheets and contract detail more visible to readers who usually only see the headline move, not the roster math behind it.
The unresolved piece is how tightly the tools will be built into The Nation Network’s brands, including Daily Faceoff, and whether that integration reaches all of its North America-wide platforms at the same pace.
