CBC sure got the short end of the stick when they renegotiated with the NHL on when and which NHL games they could broadcast for the 2007-08 NHL season. I can even see some of the effects during the 2006-07 season's playoffs.
The semi-finals are here with the Ottawa Senators playing the Buffalo Sabres, and the Detroit Red Wings playing ... that other team ... what was the name again ... doesn't matter. I'm sure all the NHL fans are equally split between Detroit, Ottawa, and Buffalo.
We are now going into game #5 between Ottawa and Buffalo, with Buffalo on the verge of elimination with Ottawa leading the series 3-1. I have to hand it to Buffalo because they've fought hard all season and one of the few teams that deserves a chance at the Stanley Cup. But on the other hand, Ottawa is just as deserving especially with losing their chances the last couple of years being remarkably kicked out by the Toronto Maple Leafs (to this day I still believe that Toronto paid off Ottawa to lose in the name of greater advertising revenue .... just a theory).
On to game #5 and it's this Saturday in Buffalo at 2pm? What the H-E-double-hockey stick ??? Who in their right mind watches hockey in the afternoon on a Saturday? Those time slots were relegated to Sunday afternoons to teams like Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Florida Panthers, and Carolina Hurricanes (no offense to those teams ... I only say that because their viewer crowds have not yet been developed).
Instead of the usual beer, nachos and popcorn saved for Saturday evenings in front of the big screen, I'll have to eat my hot dog, hamburger and fries indoors. Sheesh. I think this is all the NHL's doing in pleasing the US tv-networks like Fox (ie. WUTV in Buffalo .... "he shoots he scores" Ed Kilgore-outbursts)
GO REDS GO!
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