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Harman Dayal covers US sports for SportsRivo, including the NBA, the NFL, the NHL and Major League Baseball. A Vancouver-based journalist, he writes for The Athletic as a national NHL writer and is known for contract and trade analysis, draft coverage and detailed reporting on the Vancouver Canucks. His work combines video review with underlying data to explain how teams are built.
2017
Daily Hive sports contributor
2019
Writing for The Athletic at 18
2021
Joined as regular host
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
Harman Dayal is based in Vancouver and studied at Trinity Western University. He began writing about sport as a teenager and was already a Canucks writer at The Athletic by 2019, when he was 18. Local podcasters at the time praised his ability to join the “stats guy” and the “hockey guy” in one piece of analysis.
Today he is a national NHL writer at The Athletic. His best-known work includes contract and trade grades, free agency rankings, draft features and league-wide pieces on which teams are stuck in the middle. At SportsRivo he applies the same focus on contracts, trades and roster moves to the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB, and co-hosts the West Coast Conversation podcast with David Quadrelli.
Full name
Harman Dayal
Born
2000
Based in
Vancouver, Canada
Education
Trinity Western University
Main job
National NHL writer, The Athletic
At SportsRivo
US sports: NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB
Podcasts
West Coast Conversation (co-host); earlier Game Theory with Harman and Canucks Conversation
Early work
Daily Hive, 2017–2018
Harman’s first published work appeared on Daily Hive, where he wrote quick-turn pieces on the NHL, NBA and tennis, with early Canucks stories such as trade-destination features for Chris Tanev.
By early 2019 he was writing about the Canucks for The Athletic. In the same year he launched his own show, Game Theory with Harman, with guests from The Athletic and The Province.
In September 2021 CanucksArmy announced him as a regular host of its Canucks Conversation podcast, appearing on every second Saturday episode.
He now writes across the league for The Athletic, working with colleagues such as Thomas Drance, Corey Pronman and Shayna Goldman, and co-hosts West Coast Conversation.
Harman has hosted or co-hosted several hockey shows alongside his writing.
| Year | Show | Role | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Game Theory with Harman | Host | His own Canucks show; six episodes in 2019 on the rebuild, the J.T. Miller trade and the draft |
| 2021 | Canucks Conversation | Regular host | CanucksArmy’s podcast; he joined in September 2021 |
| Now | West Coast Conversation | Co-host | Canucks and NHL talk with David Quadrelli |
At SportsRivo, Harman writes US sports news, analysis and features across these leagues:
Game reports, standings, trades and the play-offs.
Results, contracts, trades and the road to the Super Bowl.
Games, contracts, the draft and the Stanley Cup race.
Results, standings and the post-season.
The newest US sports articles by Harman appear here automatically
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Harman covers US sports for SportsRivo: the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB, with a focus on game results, contracts, trades and play-off races.
He is a national NHL writer at The Athletic and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
Yes. He co-hosts West Coast Conversation with David Quadrelli. He earlier hosted Game Theory with Harman and appeared on Canucks Conversation.
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