[Senator Clay Davis]

Well I seriously doubt Sportsnet will retain everything they already have, and if they do you can expect that programming to get buried deep in costly places. Sportsnet will probably shift EPL and European sports programming to SportsnetWorld (at $12.95 a month, customers will be thrilled...). Sportsnet will be squeezing groups outside hockey fans if they retain all their programming. So I suppose they could do it, even if they piss everyone off in the process. TSN will also now be able to be more aggressive in content bidding.

I'd also add TSN survived what, like 20 years, without being the NHL's national broadcaster. They'll be fine because they've been run as a solid operation their entire existence. Sportsnet meanwhile has ONLY been run as a second rate operation for its existence. But they don't need to be anything other than a second rate operation because they have the content locked in. People acting like they'll upgrade forget they have no incentive to.