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The Nation Network’s leading hockey reference site, Daily Faceoff, generates more than 83 million page views annually, engages a hockey-intense fanbase with breaking news, fantasy projections, and analysis through articles, podcasts, and video production.
Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, The Nation Network is a media group built by hockey fans, for hockey fans.
Downton co-founded The Nation Network in 2007 as a blog dedicated to his hometown Edmonton Oilers. Over the years, this passion turned into a 10+ property digital media business with scale of audience across written content, podcasts, social media, video and more.
Jay is active in the Edmonton entrepreneur community, serves as a board member for Explore Edmonton, and helps to operate several community-oriented restaurants in the city.
Frank Seravalli President of Hockey Content, DFO
Seravalli joined Daily Faceoff in June 2021, helping launch the content wing of the popular DailyFaceoff.com web site. In addition to breaking news and reporting as an Insider, he oversees all content aspects of the site, co-hosts the Daily Faceoff Show digital stream and the DFO Rundown podcast.
Prior to Daily Faceoff, Seravalli served at TSN as Senior Hockey Reporter from, breaking NHL news for TSN's web site. He regularly appeared on SportsCentre, That's Hockey, TSN Radio and other TSN Hockey specials from 2015 to 2021.
In 2019, Seravalli was elected as president of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association (PHWA).