At 5 pm on the average weekday my brother and I are just hanging out, making dinner or whatever, and we usually want to put on some mindless TV. We're both hockey fans beyond watching the Flames, and we'd love to have some eastern game to watch for an hour or two in the early evening. But we almost never can. Sportsnet just doesn't show these games that they have the national rights to and are going on at the time we want to watch. What the hell Sportsnet?
We just end up watching some news because RSN is showing some plays of the month bull####. Or maybe misplays of the month. Or a half hour show of NHL highlights that I already saw on Reddit. Or some OHL game that I care nothing about. Or maybe Blue Jays in 30. Yeah, a recap of a spring training game. Sweet. Anything but show some goddamn live NHL hockey.
It blows me away how little hockey they actually broadcast to me (almost none) compared to the amount they have the right to broadcast to me (as I understand it, basically all the hockey). Way to make use of that monopoly.
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