He's that good, eh?
I’m sure Montreal fans will love his first game. Watching a player skate like he can around the perimeter is fun and all. But at a certain point you need to play the game and there really isn’t a place for a player like that if they aren’t going to go scoring areas in the NHL. He needs to put on a lot of weight, that frame will not work in this league.
Alex DeBrincat
Isn’t TNT an NBA network?
Yea. We’ll seeMLB has been in trouble because it’s not a very interesting game. Nothing has changed.
NHL is not at all in trouble as it is and will continue be an extremely niche sport.
I doubt it affects the ratings much at all.I think the new television deal is great for the NHL. What channel do you see in every sports bar you go into? It's ESPN, of course. Simply put, games on ESPN will be seen by more eyeballs of the casual fans than if the game is on NBCSN.
I doubt it affects the ratings much at all.
If overtime wanted to watch hockey, they could find NBCSN just as easily. It wasn't done hard to access broadcast.
The benefit to the NHL is the money they were paid.
ESPN has been bleeding viewers just like everyone else. They won't bring a group of viewers that were "unable to watch hockey on NBCSN."
What's really bad for the NHL though, is Sinclair's refusal to negotiate with providers in good faith, leaving millions of fans in in all regions, unable to watch local teams on television.
Every bar I've seen that has ESPN these days, also has NBCSN on at the same time.Once again, we disagree.
NHL fans will find the games no matter where its on. But the casual non-hockey sports fan isn't going to take the time to find a game on NBCSN. But if they are sitting in a bar and ESPN is televising the game, it might attract some new fans to the game.
So... let's just win the division instead. That's still possible.STL beat CO. We are now in danger of facing CO in the first round rather than VGK. Not good.
Didn't even occur to me, but sure, OK! We owe STL a beatdownSo... let's just win the division instead. That's still possible.
Like I said... just go for first place. Let the Avs face Vegas, who has played them well, maybe they do is a favor and knock them out. Then we don't even have to face them all.The Avs will murder us.
I HATE them! I've always hated them. More than I hated the Canucks in 2003. That whole franchise can just burn in h-e-double hockey sticks.
Like I said... just go for first place. Let the Avs face Vegas, who has played them well, maybe they do is a favor and knock them out. Then we don't even have to face them all.
I mostly agree, but our lousy faceoffs are going to be a problem against Colorado. If we start 60% of our shifts chasing them it's going to get bad quickly.im honestly not too concerned who we play, weve shown we can beat everyone in our division
Every bar I've seen that has ESPN these days, also has NBCSN on at the same time.
That said, bars showing a large group a channel actually hurts ratings, which is why bars have to pay a higher premium in the first place.
Bars won't help ratings.
Never said we have, that doesn't mean we should roll over and be happy where we're at.It’s not like we’ve rolled the Blues this year.
Like I said... just go for first place. Let the Avs face Vegas, who has played them well, maybe they do is a favor and knock them out. Then we don't even have to face them all.
I think draft pick positioning to that degree is irrelevant.I don’t know if this is how I should be thinking about a team that has been playing great this season, but I’d rather not take 1st solely due to draft pick positioning. Winning our division means we’re picking 25-28th, regardless of if we win/lose either of the first two rounds.