@Fenway, do you think anyone else makes a run at acquiring the national broadcast rights when the contract with NBC ends?
Fenway would know better than me, but I thought I read somewhere that ESPN was interested, too.@Fenway, do you think anyone else makes a run at acquiring the national broadcast rights when the contract with NBC ends?
Congrats Doc well done. Please NBC don’t make Kenny Albert #1 play-by-play...please!
The NHL would be smart to get as many networks involved as possible, at least if it's their intention to grow the game. No other network besides NBC has any incentive to spend time on the NHL. They gain absolutely nothing from it. Split it up between NBC, ESPN, and FOX, and get more games on TV in front of a national audience.
“the Schanley cup playofffsch!!!”
FOX and FS1 are expected to make a huge bid
Maybe they can hire Dave O'Brien
"Welcome back to the Ssstanley cup playoffssss on NBC, itsss a firssst round matchup between the Sssst. Louisss Bluessss and the Dallasss Sssstarssss. Faceoff...Sssssundqvist back to Ssssteen, over to Sssanford. It'sss interccccccepted by Sssseguin who flips it to Ssssekera. Sssstolen by Ssschen, who takes a sssshottttt, and a sssssssave by Bissshop!"
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Competition can only help.
I thought NBC mostly crushed the coverage on return to play.
However, I wonder how many people still use ESPN as their main source of sports news.
The fact that they don’t have NHL listed as one of the main tabs at the top of their website is a joke and feels spiteful due to the fact that they don’t own the broadcast rights.
NBCSN had the first game after the Boston Marathon bombings. Doc had a beautiful, heartfelt intro to the broadcast. I cannot find video of it, but Chad Finn summed it up in the Globe the next day.
NBCSN had the first game after the Boston Marathon bombings. Doc had a beautiful, heartfelt intro to the broadcast. I cannot find video of it, but Chad Finn summed it up in the Globe the next day.
I like Doc - it's clear he's slowed down over the past 2-3 seasons, but I actually like someone who has more than one verb for "shoot" and "block". Hopefully sometime in the 2021-22 season (I'm assuming 2020-21 will remain difficult) they bring him back during a game for an interview and perhaps call a period, so that he can do a true farewell in front of fans. Having Doc at home was 100% necessary, but it's still not the same. That's one thing that COVID's robbed people of - closure.
I really liked Forslund's calls in the bubble. He's a bit of a 180 from Doc - when Doc has the call, you can't help but to notice him. He's the jalapeno salsa of announcing. Forslund's more like ranch - background noise, but informative. I'd love for him to be the new #1 PxP on NBC, and he's free from what I've surmised.
Boucher is such an improvement over Pierre it's not even funny. I always thought I was a bit of a Pierre defender, and I actually didn't mind him too much until the playoffs in the bubble. Maybe he just had no clue how to share the mic with folks in the studio, or vice versa, but there was something off that made me chant the famed refrain "Shut up, Pierre" several times. And there was something odd about Pierre's speech - it seemed more pressured or slurred - just a little off and not a nice, smooth "broadcaster" voice. (Then again, Doc doesn't exactly have that, either.)