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Old 09-18-2017, 12:00 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by Toonage View Post
As recently as 2015 these split squad games were available on each team's site and I could watch them simultaneously. The NHL took over hosting all club sites (or so I am lead to believe) and now we have weird rules that clash with the league's own blackout policy during the regular season. My best guess as to why is that no ads are sold for these games and thus the NHL has no reason to broadcast them or make them available outside the host cities. But who knows.

I'm hoping someone with knowledge of these matters can clear this up because yeah, it sucks. And I get thats its one night and 2 meaningless games but still. I'd like to know why.
You are probably right about the no ads thing but that makes the NHL really dumb because as I said there are no shortage of "other sources". You would think they would put it on GCL to promote their product instead of indirectly promoting illegal streams.
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