EricBowser
- Joined: Sep 19, 2014
- Last Login: Nov 28, 2016, 7:39pm EST
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Eric Bowser joined PensBurgh as a columnist in September 2014. He started his love of writing about sports as a teenager in the mid 90's writing interview questions for the Cornerstone Television show SportsWeek, which was hosted by former MLB pitcher Tom McGough and had a weekly feature during the NHL season providing team power ratings. He moved on to creating the website Pittsburgh Sports Arena, which later turned into Penguins Fan Central (PFC). In the late 90's, PFC was featured in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in a groundbreaking article about the internet's place in covering sports from the fan perspective written by then PG writer Dejan Kovacevic, who oddly enough has dipped into the entrepreneur world of the internet running DK on Pittsburgh Sports and is someone Eric considers to be a friend and mentor. Eric also wrote for In the Crease, Hockey Buzz, and Hockey's Future covering the Penguins and hockey. His favorite interview quote was with Tyler Kennedy after he was drafted by the Penguins telling him one of the players he looked up to was neighbor and former Penguins forward Rico Fata. He'll forever be thankful to long-time NHL scout Chuck Grillo for spending hours on the telephone over one summer discussing the way to scout a player on and off the ice and how a player and team should own their roles in player development. Enjoyed his time talking to former NHL head coach Kevin Constantine as they talked about player development and what it is like to manage personalities on a hockey team after a few years coaching Jaromir Jagr. Follow Eric on Twitter - https://twitter.com/EricBowser