Miscellaneous NHL Discussion: "The March is On" edition

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Cody Webster

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ESPN is only airing 25 games? LMFAO
It definitely would have been a lot nice to get more than 25 games, that's pretty much nothing, but they'll be streaming 1,000+ games, which will be nice.

I'm interested to see what this does to ESPN+ and the cost. No way it stays at $5/month
 

ajgoal

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It definitely would have been a lot nice to get more than 25 games, that's pretty much nothing, but they'll be streaming 1,000+ games, which will be nice.

I'm interested to see what this does to ESPN+ and the cost. No way it stays at $5/month

I thought the announcement said it would be a package on ESPN+, which suggests to me that it's some sort of add-on.
 
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LegionOfDoom91

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That’s not a bad deal for the NHL. It’s a niche sport in the US so they weren’t going to walk in there & get a bigger piece for that type of money like the widely more popular sports leagues get on there.

The NHL obviously wanted their visibility & promotion back in the US to squeeze a little more out of viewers than they were getting solely with NBC.

Obviously ESPN sees it as cheaper live sports content filler compared to the other leagues. They’ll probably do what NBC did with tapping into the big market games during the regular season & probably squeeze a bit more ratings out of it compared to them.

Then you obviously have the streaming component.
 

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NBC has also proven that they f***ing suck. Then again, so has ESPN. Meh. Hockey is stupid anyway.
This may shock people but no one has ever enjoyed the network coverage of hockey no matter who it’s been.



Probably one of the more bizarre things in Flyers’ history.

And this was the next game after the 5OT game. Delmore had 2 goals and the OT winner in game 3
 
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