[dying4acup]

Originally Posted by OldDutch

This. In most mature companies they do due diligence to ensure that company promising to basically do the work for free won't deliver garbage. Better to pay a bit more for quality product.

However, hey probably thought name brand was credence enough. Add in Canadians would watch basically anything with the word hockey on it, and it is low risk from the NHL perspective I guess.

I would love to see the wording in that contract however. There must be some wording in there for minimum quality level you would think. However, how do you qualify that? As long as there is a guy with a pulse reading off a card, behind a desk? I am sure there is a bit of trust there from the NHL that may come back and bite them. Most likely we see the same broadcasts not upgraded for the next 12 years, bare minimum investment everywhere.

NHL just better hope it doesn't get so bad Canadian's start tuning out on them.

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