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Originally Posted by monkeyman
Hockey night in Canada used to be an institution, people would tune in from coast to coast to watch. It's really just a shadow of what it once was and becoming indistinguishable from rogers hometown hockey or any other regular weekday game. This move shifts that needle even more toward the bland and ordinary, removing any kind of colour from an increasingly boring broadcast.
Being kicked off that ship might not be a bad thing for Cherry.
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Oh, god. All this nostalgia for HNIC most likely stems from the reality of network broadcasting in the years before cable television. The reason HNIC is "indistinguishable" from other broadcasts is because 30 years ago there was only one weekly national hockey broadcast. Now there are several.
I continue to care substantially less about broadcast filler and trappings than I do the actual games being played. I watch because I love hockey, and will continue to do so.