Question About the Days Off in this Series

[Sgt Sharpie 4]

I think that ESPN has seen the huge popularity that the NHL has gotten this season in large markets like Boston, Chicago, etc and will pay the money (like they don't have it lying around) to get it out of the hands of VS and NBC. With the amount of pure crap on ESPN (I'm looking at you, pool, poker, bowling, etc), it would be pretty huge for them.

dont forget the live spelling bee on tonight!

[Heroes of Hockeytown 694]

The schedule is certainly an abomination. Games are going to have to played during the week and potentially interfere with the Tonight Show anyways, so I don't see what the NHL gains by cramming it all into one weekend instead of spreading it out between two.

I realize things don't work this way because of the wretched, imperfect universe we exist in, but it seems like if they were worried about overtime games running late into their programming they could just move the games to Versus after the third intermission.

[mjlegend 155]

Does Game 2 have a start time? It's three days away, FFS.