Pierre LeBrun is a Canadian sportscaster and writer. Working for
The Sports Network
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, he appears as a "Hockey Insider", and regularly appears on hockey-related broadcasts. He is also a senior
National Hockey League
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columnist for ''
The Athletic
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'', and has appeared as a regular panelist on ''
Hockey Night in Canada
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''.
Career
After becoming a mainstay on TSN's weekly "Insider Trading" segment in 2011, LeBrun has appeared on various TSN programming, including
SportsCentre
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History
The program was launc ...
,
That's Hockey
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and
TSN Radio
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Réseau des sports
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in Montreal.
LeBrun previously worked nine years for
ESPN
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as a hockey columnist for ESPN.com. Prior to joining ESPN in 2008, LeBrun spent 13 years as a national hockey reporter for
the Canadian Press
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.
Since 2017, LeBrun has also served as a senior NHL columnist with ''
The Athletic
''The Athletic'' is a subscription-based sports journalism department of ''The New York Times''. It provides national and local coverage in 47 North American cities as well as the United Kingdom. ''The Athletic'' also covers national stories ...
''. He also collaborated on a recurring ice hockey
podcast
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with
Scott Burnside
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, titled "Two-Man Advantage", discussing the NHL.
LeBrun graduated from the
Carleton University
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school of journalism in 1995.
Awards
In 2005, LeBrun's coverage of the
2004-05 NHL lockout
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earned him the Outstanding Sports Writing Award from Sport Canada.