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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
All 7 Canadian teams are out of the playoffs and sucking ***.
Ratings are down in Canada.
We need a federal inquiry!
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There is merit there but it's not like over the past decade we haven't seen the majority of Canadian teams in the dumps with only one Canadian team making the playoffs in 2014 and a more than a few instances where only two Canadian teams made it. Ratings were nowhere near this poor in those instances. I do truly believe the problem is compounded because most Canadians don't like RSN's hockey presentation. I haven't heard a single fan say they like things better now than before the NHL gave RSN the monopoly. It really doesn't take much to get fans to tune out and RSN's presentation and sandpaper personalities are well enough in some instances.
I'm not happy that the Flames stink but I am happy that the rest of the Canadian teams also stink (I'm bitter like that when it comes to other Canadian fans as if I can't be happy, neither should they) and I'm happy that Rogers is getting what they deserve as there's a reason that people all over the country gasped when the news of the deal came out and that's because it was an incredibly foolish deal for Rogers and also a bad deal for Canadians that mostly all preferred TSN and CBC.
The bottom line is that Canadians never deserved this 12 year deal of being forced to settle for a 2nd tier product but Rogers fully deserves what's coming to them. Sorry Rogers you get no sympathy from me as you are getting what you deserve.