data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.hockey.54251 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (The Terminator)
Subject: Re: ESPN
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In article , [email protected] (Robert Andolina) writes:
|> The thing that confuses me most about ESPN is that they decided to show the
|> Penguins and Devils again on Thursday night. Being that both of the first
|> two games were dominated by Pitt., you would think that they would show a
|> different game. This is in addition to the fact that they should show other
|> games just for the sake of fair exposure.
ESPN must have some very poor marketing people. They are only concerned with
featuring players (i.e. Mario) than featuring good competitive hockey.
|> Also, some of you should know that (as far as I can tell) ESPN is not going
|> to show Campbell conference games regularly in the first two rounds. I
|> believe that they are only going to show Campbell games in the first two
|> rounds as those series wear on (games 6 & 7, or perhaps games 5, 6, 7).
I've heard that this is because most of their market is East Coast and hence
would prefer the Wales stuff. Also, don't expect Canadian teams on ESPN.
In summary, if you want to see a network that provides good hockey coverage,
watch CBC from Canada. They may be biased toward Canadian teams, but they
don't treat the viewers like idiots, they provide nice updates, and Don Cherry
will always provide a few laughs.