I thought mid-day games have been around for awhile now. Nothing really new...
well considering people work on weeknds still and have church and other things on sundays mid day games a stupid thing. I decided to sleep in and even by 1pm I had missed almost all of the game.
In all honesty I'm not interested in any of the teams left in the playoffs, but the team with at least something to cheer about for me is Dallas.
I never did mind Mike Modano.
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RB, what were you thinking, clearly the coverage of the Preakness Stakes was more important than and an NHL playoff game...
Yes yes, but of course.
I think it's Gary's little way of fudging the ratings books. You see, it's a long weekend in Canada and many people are out camping etc. They're possible near a bar where they might have theorized that "watching the game tonight was a great idea!" However to their surprise.... This way, most people completely missed these games, while the US audience would by default, be larger.....Buttman turns around and says, "see, we're growing the game".
Makes me puke....
RB
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If common sense is so common, how come so few of us have it?
I thought mid-day games have been around for awhile now. Nothing really new...
Oh it is nothing new aside from it's growing popularity in recent years. At one time it was a now and then thing. However, in recent years it seems the league things nothing of taking seriously important games like say a game 5 or 6 of a conference final and playing it as close to noon as possible... Good lord, like seriously, no player likes that. How can they....But whatever, it shouldn't be too long before the final is played in it's entirety at around 11 AM.
RB
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If common sense is so common, how come so few of us have it?
I think it's Gary's little way of fudging the ratings books. You see, it's a long weekend in Canada and many people are out camping etc. They're possible near a bar where they might have theorized that "watching the game tonight was a great idea!" However to their surprise.... This way, most people completely missed these games, while the US audience would by default, be larger.....Buttman turns around and says, "see, we're growing the game".
Makes me puke....
RB
Now, THAT is conspiracy-minded. heh
What choice does the NHL have? If they air the game in the late afternoon, then they compete against Nascar, which is a ratings giant. If they play the game at night, they compete against basketball and baseball. Even with NBA ratings down, they get more viewers than hockey does.
I don't think it's an effort to cook the books, so to speak, but really just an effort to maximize total viewership.
What choice does the NHL have? If they air the game in the late afternoon, then they compete against Nascar, which is a ratings giant. If they play the game at night, they compete against basketball and baseball. Even with NBA ratings down, they get more viewers than hockey does.
I don't think it's an effort to cook the books, so to speak, but really just an effort to maximize total viewership.
Daryl
Take my conspiracy fun will ya....
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If common sense is so common, how come so few of us have it?
I still hope the wings win the cup but gotta give props to the stars.
and turco is dangerous when he gets the puck he can shoot it 5678899 feet and send the stars on a rush up the ice (and get scoring chances as what happened n saturday with Lunqvist I believe it was I never watched the game but still found out details from my father)
btw I read a funny article on Holmstrom yesretday in the paper they were talking about the disallowed goal and that the ref thought his derriere was in the crease and Holmstrom started cracking jokes.
"I should get a smaller behind then," Holmstrom said. "I'm going on a diet. Its Campbell's soup from now on."
Haha I found that hilarious. I gotta hand it to the guy......holmstrom is funny and has a sense of humor.
I dot like the way he plays but i have to laugh at him sometimes. He can be funny.
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