JackSlater
Registered User
- Apr 27, 2010
- 19,015
- 14,239
... no one ever questioned that Hockey Canada, as the host, makes the Hlinka schedule. Obviously TSN is involved in those discussions. The ridiculous part of your post was the implication that there was anything unusual about USA playing five game in six nights (as every other semi-finalist did) or that it was unusual that the loser of the late semi-final game played in the afternoon the next day. It wouldn't have stuck out that much except that I remembered you as the guy making dumb comments about Hockey Canada/TSN controlling the schedule every year at the WJC.OK, so again, you prove my original point -- TSN made the schedule for the Hlinka in conjunction with Hockey Canada.
TSN and Hockey Canada are a partnership, but TSN is the money maker. The IIHF doesn't say it's a rules violation if the tournament's main broadcaster creates the schedule for Hockey Canada to submit.
Ken Volden is TSN's Executive VP. "the very thing we built" is the World Junior tournament.
Nobody said it was a scheme. It was just an unfortunate reality.
The quote you found is no smoking gun either. TSN did not "build" the WJC in any literal sense, the tournament existed before TSN was involved. It's fairly obvious that the quote is in reference to TSN marketing the tournament into the event it has become. No one would conclude that TSN dictates the schedule of the tournament even when it's outside of Canada based on that quote. Well, except for one person who really wants to believe that I guess.