Alex Hutton is a San Jose Sharks contributor at The Hockey Writers. He is a native of Oakland, California. He attended Loyola Marymount University (LMU), where he wrote for the school newspaper, the Los Angeles Loyolan, serving as Sports Editor from 2020 to 2021. He received his master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where he reported on Super Bowl LVI and the 2022 Genesis Invitational among other events. He also covered the Golden State Warriors as a writer for TheWarriorsTalk from 2019 to 2022; and wrote for The Argonaut, a magazine in Los Angeles, in 2021. As a broadcaster, he has done play-by-play and color commentary at both LMU and Northwestern, and at KREI/J98 Radio in Farmington, Missouri. He has been with THW since 2022. Follow Alex on Twitter here.