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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I always skip RSN intermissions. In fact I usually skip HNIC intermissions. The only time I ever tune into intermissions is when it's a TSN broadcast. They are just more informed and interesting usually than the rejects on RSN and I'm sorry but P.J. Stock to me means turn the channel as fast as possible.
I realize that the bottom line is that it's all about money but did Bettman or anyone in the NHL actually do any studying to see what Canadian fans think of RSN's coverage? If they did they would have realized that as a whole most hockey fans hate it. I got a boatload of texts from friends (mostly Oilers fans unfortunately) yesterday that were pretty upset with this. They all can't stand Principe and Debrusk in particular.
It's just kind of shocking to me that a sports league as big as the NHL would just take the money and give exclusive rights to what is clearly the least popular option hockey broadcaster in the country by a significant margin.
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Meh... people rage and complain about everything. If you took that into account you'd have to have all games with Rick Ball as commentator, Ron McLean with Bob McKenzie/Elliott Freidman on every intermission.
They'll still watch. And there's no way that Rogers is going to spend 5.2 million and then put out some kind of amateur hour broadcast. They need to get viewers for their non-hockey programs like Connected to make this deal work out for them and if their hockey broadcasts are terrible people will still default to Sportscentre.