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Originally Posted by GirlySports
This is bang on. The NHL puts teams in so called big markets and never puts them on tv. The Lightning, contenders the last few years and also in the early 2000s are never on NBC. Do they except the big market of Phoenix to watch the Rangers all the time?
Imagine if the 80s Oilers were never on HNIC.
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The NHL sells the rights to networks to show national games.
The networks decide who appears in those games....not the NHL. And guess who gets the majority of those spots? Obviously those with the most eyeballs to attract.
And you cant compare showing Canadian teams in a Canadian market versus America teams in the American market. Two different animals entirely.
Canadians will watch rutting Elks play rabie infested Beavers on a pond in the Yukon if its being shown.
Way tougher audiences to grab in the US.