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Rite of Spring 2013 (NHL Playoffs): "You have no fear of the underdog, that's why you will not survive."

CS85

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dbadefense1990

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How the hell do they have a freaking game 7 on a Sunday night, starting at 10:00 local time? I understand that there were two earlier games, but that's freaking ridiculous.That game should have started at 8:00 EST. It's a Sunday, people are off work and we're used to having all-day sports, and the west coast is used to having live sports come on at 5:00, anyway.

It's NBC controlling the faceoff times, and how they believe that airing a Game Seven from the Pacific time zone at 7-8pm EST would have conflict with east-coast playoff games that also begin at 7-8pm EST (fear that there's nowhere to air the game if NBCSN and CNBC still have games played) and would alienate west-coast fans with an early start (like how last year's Cup Final games in Los Angeles had a 5pm PST faceoff, a time where many people are still in traffic trying to get home).

From the start times to airing Games Three and Four of the Cup Final on cable (not everyone can see a cup clinching if the series ends in a sweep) to siphoning CBC and TSN feeds, NBC has done a bad to applauding job at handling the logistics of broadcasting hockey.

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OMMF

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airing Games Three and Four of the Cup Final on cable (not everyone can see a cup clinching if the series ends in a sweep) to siphoning CBC and TSN feeds, NBC has done a bad to applauding job at handling the logistics of broadcasting hockey.

So TSN gets a pass for using NBC feeds? Also, any cup clinching game is on the main network now. Third, applauding?

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airing Games Three and Four of the Cup Final on cable (not everyone can see a cup clinching if the series ends in a sweep) to siphoning CBC and TSN feeds, NBC has done a bad to applauding job at handling the logistics of broadcasting hockey.

So TSN gets a pass for using NBC feeds? Also, any cup clinching game is on the main network now. Third, applauding?

Besides, in the late '90s, when every Final ended in a sweep, ESPN (who aired Game's 3 and 4, except in '95) got the clincher instead of Fox.

It is (was?) nothing new for two games to be allotted to the cable partner of the national carrier. So lets not go around blaming NBC for that.

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dbadefense1990

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airing Games Three and Four of the Cup Final on cable (not everyone can see a cup clinching if the series ends in a sweep) to siphoning CBC and TSN feeds, NBC has done a bad to applauding job at handling the logistics of broadcasting hockey.

So TSN gets a pass for using NBC feeds? Also, any cup clinching game is on the main network now. Third, applauding?

If a Cup Final series is 3-0 after the first three games (like last year), then the league runs the risk of having a championship clinching game unavailable to people who can't afford cable or satellite. Some Kings fans, last year, either had to go to a bar or bootleg a stream of Game Four to see if the team can finish a sweep. They lost, and eventually won the cup in six, when the game was broadcast on national (the main) NBC.

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airing Games Three and Four of the Cup Final on cable (not everyone can see a cup clinching if the series ends in a sweep) to siphoning CBC and TSN feeds, NBC has done a bad to applauding job at handling the logistics of broadcasting hockey.

So TSN gets a pass for using NBC feeds? Also, any cup clinching game is on the main network now. Third, applauding?

If a Cup Final series is 3-0 after the first three games (like last year), then the league runs the risk of having a championship clinching game unavailable to people who can't afford cable or satellite. Some Kings fans, last year, either had to go to a bar or bootleg a stream of Game Four to see if the team can finish a sweep. They lost, and eventually won the cup in six, when the game was broadcast on national (the main) NBC.

Yeah, they changed that. Games 2 and 3 are on NBCSN. The rest on NBC.

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