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Originally Posted by Textcritic

Just SNW? This a National game.

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Just ridiculous by SN not to have it on another channel that won't be blacked out. SN is the worst, I can't wait for their contract to run out.

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Well, they are not always blacked-out, so hopefully we get it out of market.

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

You are, frankly, making a terribly dumb assumption. The game itself is a national broadcast. There is absolutely no reason to expect that the pre-game ceremony will be blacked out.


Hell, even if it was just a regional broadcast, there is nothing that would prevent Sportsnet from airing the ceremonly nationally on SNW.

Originally Posted by LWcrowfoot

It's a national game but it's a double header. Sportsnet already struggles with showing the start of the Flames game if we're the 2nd one. So nationally the ceremony won't be shown, perhaps bits and pieces maybe, but they've decided to show the ceremony in its entirety for the Flames region.

Certainly not ideal but when the schedule was made Sportsnet didn't know a random date vs the Wild would end up being so special. It's a fair compromise.

Ideally the Flames will stream the thing on their social media, or find an illegal stream night of, not that difficult.

The Iginla retirement ceremony will be on Sportsnet West nationally!

This is confirmed through various contacts including Sportsnet. Their website also confirms the national status, https://www.sportsnet.ca/schedule/ and click on March 2. There is no asterisk beside the SN West symbol, the only asterisk on that date is beside the BJs-Oilers game which means that game/programming is regional. Since Sportsnet took over the national contract, all four regional channels are not blacked out on Saturdays during the NHL season beginning at 1600h Mountain.

The Penguins-Habs game will be on the West channel and at 1830h Mountain, the West channel will cut away from the game and go to the ceremony. Viewers in the various Sportsnet regions have been pulled away from games that are being shown nationally to a regional game. This happened on the West channel on Thursday with the Sharks-Penguins game being pulled in the second intermission to go to the beginning of the Islanders-Oilers game.

Sportsnet wants this ceremony to available nation wide unlike the incompetent CBC which infamously did not show the Bernard "Boom Boom" Geoffrion ceremony nationally.