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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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Maybe it's because its Larry Brooks, but this doesn't pass the smell test with me... The Olympics always dominate NBC coverage in prime time/evenings, and they pay massively for the broadcast rights (
they paid $7.75B for 6 Olympics (12 weeks of total broadcast time) vs.
$2B for 10 years of NHL games), and I have a hard time believing they ever intended to preempt a 3 hour block of the Olympics on their national broadcasts to go to a mid-season NHL game.