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Around The NHL Discussion 2021-22 Part II

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PocketNines said:
He created the Lehtera problem and paid a big price to fix it. Schenn was part of a Cup winner so the correct expensive piece was bought. Farabee is a really good player
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I honestly can't say that he paid a big price to fix it. 3 years of Schenn at $5.125M per year was definitely worth more than a single 1st round pick. So the price paid to move Lehtera in that deal was the difference in value between the second 1st rounder we included and whatever less valuable addition would have been added to a single 1st rounder to obtain Schenn. Let's say that Schenn was worth a 1st and a B level prospect. That means the price to move Lehtera was the difference between a 1st and a B level prospect.

With the benefit of hindsight, the price seems even less. Schenn has undoubtedly been worth an acquisition cost of the 27th and 14th overall picks. We're 4 years removed from the 2017 draft and no one drafted around #27 has turned into an impact NHL player. There is obviously still time, but the reality of the 27th overall is that there are a lot of complete misses and a lot of NHL-caliber guys that aren't difference makers through their careers. The Flyers picked Frost who couldn't crack their lineup this year. They used next year's #14 on Farabee who looks to be a damn good player. But I don't think he has the ceiling of a legit star and his ceiling is probably about what we have gotten out of Schenn in his time here so far. With the benefit of hindsight, Id trade those two picks for Schenn knowing who we could have selected with them (and that isn't just a "won the Cup who cares" statement. I'm just looking at Schenn's production/play in a vacuum).
 
I was always told it was the NHL and not the providers. I'm now in Dish and they don't carry Bally. I live in northern Wisconsin. I have Center Ice but I cannot see Blues games with the Wild unless they are nationally televised, as I'm blacked out!
 
Games are only blacked out if it is airing somewhere else in your market. Blackout rules are for forcing people to get the cable package or whatever.
 
Blueston said:
Are they not aired on regional sports network?
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That's the problem for me as Dish doesn't carry the local sports channel so even if I have Center Ice, I cannot see any Wild games at all unless they are nationally televised. Therefore I miss those Blues games here in northern Wisconsin and I can't switch until next October. I have the same thein if the Packers or Bucks would be on Balley, I wouldn't get them [& I don't care about them].
 
Blueston said:
Seems odd to make you travel several hundred miles to watch.
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back in the day, that used to be the case. I remember tuning in to KPLR11 hoping that the remaining 2000 tickets that had been mentioned throughout the preceding days had been sold so that the game would be broadcast. Non-sold-out home games used to routinely get blacked out. Not sure if that's still the case or not these days; much has changed since then.
 
Stealth JD said:
back in the day, that used to be the case. I remember tuning in to KPLR11 hoping that the remaining 2000 tickets that had been mentioned throughout the preceding days had been sold so that the game would be broadcast. Non-sold-out home games used to routinely get blacked out. Not sure if that's still the case or not these days; much has changed since then.
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The Blues do not blackout games based on ticket sales and no team in the NHL has done so for over a decade. I believe that the Hawks were the last team to do it and they ended that policy in 2007 when Bill Wirtz died. The TV contracts became too valuable to use broadcasts as a way to strongarm ticket sales.
 
Brian39 said:
The Blues do not blackout games based on ticket sales and no team in the NHL has done so for over a decade. I believe that the Hawks were the last team to do it and they ended that policy in 2007 when Bill Wirtz died. The TV contracts became too valuable to use broadcasts as a way to strongarm ticket sales.
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I think its more of a quirk that the regional sports networks here have alternate programming....so no one is really carrying the game lots of times. But the last time I tried to watch Seattle on the local network, it WAS on..and it was blacked out along with every other legal avenue open to me. I haven't tried to sort out the Colorado situation as much. Maybe Seattle is doing something as a new team that is similar to how Wirtz handled things? (If so, that seems idiotic for a 1st year expansion team.)
 
Just watched the Flames-Leafs OT. Once or twice did one of the teams reset in the neutral zone before Matthews finished it after a Flames break down.
 
I feel bad for Jaskin. Finally came back to the NHL and has a season ending injury 11 have into the season.
 
Linkens Mastery said:
I feel bad for Jaskin. Finally came back to the NHL and has a season ending injury 11 have into the season.
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On the plus side, he doesn't have to play for the Yotes anymore? They're off to a start that could conceivably see them set history as the worst NHL season ever played, taking that dubious honour from the 74-75 Caps...

And that's with the advantage of the 3 point game allowing them to "pad their stats".
 
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