05-26-2016, 01:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Wow:
http://deadspin.com/the-nhl-threaten...dnt-1778925655
The NHL Threatened To Fine The Lightning If They Didn't Shut Down Their Watch Party
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The Tampa Bay Lighting hosted a very well-attended viewing party on Sunday for Game 5 of their Eastern Conference Finals series with Pittsburgh. Thousands went to the public showing (around 8,000 attended an analogous event last year), and the team had planned another official party for tonight’s Game 7, only to cancel it yesterday afternoon and encourage fans to head to a different, unofficial event.
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The NHL told Deadspin that the Lightning were only allowed to host one official event per series, and that they’d already used up their slot on the Game 5 party. But the Sharks and Blues have each hosted multiple parties during the Western Conference Finals, and sources tell us that the NHL and NBC pressured the team to cancel tonight’s event because of worries about low TV ratings.
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