Scott Burnside is one President of the Professional Hockey Writers Association and former NHL Columnist at ESPN. ^[4]

Scott Burnside graduated from Carleton University with Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs in 1987. He then earned a Bachelor of Education from University of Ottawa and finished it in 1988. He got Level One Certified Youth Hockey Coach from USA Hockey.^[2]

Growing up in Canada, Burnside started playing hockey early in his life. He began his career covering multitude aspects of journalism, including crime. He co-wrote a book entitled Deadly Innocence with Alan Cairns, which tells the story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka abducting, sexually torturing, and murdering innocent schoolgirls.^[9]

Early in his career, Scott Burnside covered sports for The National Post.^[7]

He began his career as a sports journalist in 1997 in Windsor.

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He eventually became national hockey writer for at ESPN, where he covered three Olympic hockey tournaments, two World Cup of Hockey tournaments, and 11 Stanley Cup final series. In April 2017, he was laid off by ESPN after the company announced its restructuring policy. ^[5]

(See Also: List of 75 ESPN Employees Who Got Laid Off (April 2017))