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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Globe story about just how badly CBC effed up the negotiation. Bettman even offered to let CBC keep HNIC double headers, including Toronto or Montreal for the first game, and they'd figure out a price later - but they would have to give up the exclusivity and allow all games to be broadcast. CBC's hubris was such that they instead tried to dictate to the NHL, even after being told things were changing.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...2643/?page=all
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Wow could CBC executives have handled that any worse? They literally played Russian roulette with the livelihood of hundreds of employees and lost. Of course the people responsible for the mess (Hubert Lacroix, Jeffrey Orridge, and Neil McEneaney) somehow still have their jobs.
I would imagine there are a few executives at TSN that aren't exactly popular around the network as is seems they also felt like they had more leverage in negotiations than they thought.