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Originally Posted by driveway
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Here's where they get their info:
http://www.dropyourgloves.com/Credits.aspx
Why is a bunch of usernames with footage and library data, and places like Toronto Star and magazines? Because games weren't widely broadcasted before the 2000s:
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From its debut in the 1992–93 NHL season until the 2001–02 NHL season, weekly regular season games were broadcast on ESPN on Sundays (between NFL and baseball seasons), Wednesdays, and Fridays, and were titled Sunday/Wednesday/Friday Night Hockey. Prior to the 1999, these telecasts were non-exclusive, meaning they were blacked out in the regions of the competing teams, and an alternate game was shown in these affected areas.
From the 1992–1993 season to the 1993–1994 season, ABC televised six weekly regional telecasts on Sunday afternoons beginning in March (or the last three Sundays of the regular season). This marked the first time that regular season broadcasts of National Hockey League games were aired on American network television since 1975 (when NBC was the NHL's American broadcast television partner). ABC would then televise three weeks worth of playoff games (or the first three Sundays of the playoffs). They didn't televise the Stanley Cup Finals which instead, were televised nationally by ESPN and locally by Prime Ticket in Los Angeles (1993) and MSG in New York (1994). Games televised on ABC were not subject to blackout.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist...tes_television
So basically the data is non-existant and random guys who VCR recorded what little broadcasts were available submits them, otherwise their depending on journalists who attended the games and wrote summaries in the local paper.
But hey, at least they acknowledged it's possible I was able to witness one...