When I watch hockey on CBC, it feels like an event to be savoured and they come closer to any broadcaster of any sport to making me feel something of the atmosphere at the games.
They build it up like no one else does and they do it with simplicity. I don't care what production value TSN has - because it simply does not do it for me in the same way.
Here in the UK - HNIC has been spoadically carried over the past few years as a result of rights issues. The season before last, Premier Sports had "Hockey Tonight". HNIC and "After Hours". It was heaven. PS had a link with Sporstnet via Setanta resulting in them being able to economically transmit the feed to the UK. That is gone now, and with it, HNIC is gone here.
Many in the hockey family here in the UK and Ireland miss HNIC, myself included. It is for me, the best sports broadcast on television.
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