The Rest of the NHL

[MDS]

i mean i could go on espn.com if i cared but thanks easy

[ice grillin you]

im sure the hawks would trade in their stanley cup to make the playoffs this year

btw game dates and times are announced tonight at 10 on nhl network

[Don Ho]

Exactly.  Flyers win a cup, farg the playoffs. Now the bums on the other hand better win every year.

[SunMo]

fan 590 in Toronto is reporting that the Coyotes are moving from Phoenix to Winnipeg after this year

[ice grillin you]

winnipeg had the OG white out and since then no team has come close to duplicating it....their farging arena was out of control loud

[MDS]

awesome news if true.

winnipeg is a death trap and those people would lose their minds for an nhl team. good for them.

next stop, quebec city.

[BigEd76]

denied

[BigEd76]

Caps/Rangers goes to OT

[ice grillin you]

NBC and Versus have agreed to a deal to renew the NHL's TV rights, according to execs close to the deal. A formal announcement is expected to come this afternoon. Specific deal terms are not known, but the bidding had gone above $200M per year. Fox pulled out of the bidding last week, and Turner pulled out yesterday, saying it could not find a business model to support the money the NHL appears to be getting in this negotiation. The NHL never came back to ESPN with a final bid, sources said. ESPN's interest in picking up the package stayed until the end of the bidding process. But sources said it was too difficult for the NHL and ESPN to work around NBC and Versus' matching rights.

The NHL's rights fee is believed to exceed – by far – the $120M per-year average that ESPN paid from '99-'04, which marked the NHL's largest contract to date. The league's current deal with Versus is for $77.5M per year, while NBC has a revenue-sharing deal that does not involve a rights fee. Many execs inside the NHL favored ESPN, believing a deal with the network would guarantee more coverage on popular shows like "SportsCenter." But NBC and Versus determined that the package was too important for Versus to lose. This marks the first big media rights negotiation since Comcast acquired NBC.

[Sgt PSN]

A shtein ton of money is being spent so that people still won't watch hockey on television.

Actually, I don't really know if it means that at all.  But I suspect that since they weren't able to work out a deal with ESPN, they'll continue to receive very little coverage and tv ratings will still kind of suck.  And lets face it, in this country if you aren't on ESPN, you aren't a sport worth watching. 

[ice grillin you]

how does downie get one game on a second offense for the exact same hit he got 20 games for a couple years ago

[SunMo]

good question, how does downie's hit and kunitz's intentional elbow to gagne's head get the same thing?

[ice grillin you]

yeah downies was illegal but it was more stupid and it happened in the act of a normal hockey play....kunitz went out of his way to intentionally elbow someone in the face

they both should be out for a minimum of their current series

[Don Ho]

Great game tonight!  Sharks down 4-1 to Kings and come back and win in OT 5-4.

[rjs246]

farg the Caps.