FeedHmmm – Which Game Would Get More Viewers?
March 8, 2011 in Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens Tags: Jeopardy, RDS, Rick Mercer Report, TSN
For all the great Habs fan in the west who don’t have the NHL package or satellite TV or RDS or can’t figure out how to watch on your computer, unfortunately you’re going to have to enjoy the Boston-Montreal extravaganza on radio.
When the puck drops at 7.30 eastern, CBC will be airing Jeopardy and then the Rick Mercer Report.
TSN is showing the Colorado-Minnesota game. I repeat – the Colorado-Minnesota game.
I have RDS, but not everyone does, and….the Colorado-Minnesota game? This is a huge game in Montreal. Gigantic. The game following the last when it was a bloodbath. Two old rivals going toe-to-toe. Intensity, ferociousness, atmosphere to be cut with a chainsaw.
But TSN has decided it’s going to be the Colorado-Minnesota game instead.
Thanks TSN. Hope you get about twelve viewers.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
KGBettman must have come up with this monumental decision on which would draw the bigger amount of viewers. I’d rather watch grass grow!
GO HABS GO!!!!
March 8th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
It’s also on that funny CTV Habs channel that turns on for some of the Habs games for those of us who are in the Montreal viewing area. We get it in Ottawa, for example.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
AC, I guess they think there aren’t that many Habs fans out here. Maybe if they would have been at the Canucks game where there were thousands.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Absolutely, Mike. I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t watch a Colorado-Minnesota game even if there was nothing else on.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Dennis, Habs games should be a constitutional right. It’s nonsense that some people have to pay extra to watch them. This is just a cash grab by the league and cable companies.
March 8th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
It’s true, Danno. I think the networks missed the boat on this one. A big game like this…..
March 8th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Aren’t they football teams?
March 8th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Anvilcloud, chalk one up for Bell Satellite TV.
http://www.tsn.ca/habs/
But how does satellite work regionally?
Dennis, to me it’s all about the money. Rights to Colorado-Minnesota games -> dirt cheap. Rights to Hab-Bruin games -> big $$$. TSN2 programming is mostly just sports related filler.
They paid big $$$ for the rights to show curling on their main network, they don’t want to waste their curling money showing a more popular hockey game.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Carey Price and the case for the Vezina trophy by Hockey Buzz…
http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Steven-Hindle/Careys-Case-for-the-Vezina/139/34240?utm_source=bleacherreport.com&utm_medium=referral
There’s a poll at the bottom of the article where you can cast your vote as to who you think should win the Vezina Trophy.
Carey Price is currently leading with 68 per cent.
Second place is Tim Thomas with only 26 per cent.
March 8th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Danno, thanks for that. And I voted! Now we need a vote to get PK the Calder.
March 8th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Dennis,
The build up to toights game is generating a lot of heat, if not much light. One individual in particular caught my eye.
For someone who was last seen at the Bell Centre polishing the ice with his backside courtesy of PK, Marchand has an awful lot to say for himself.
Perhaps the same wise old heads that were shaking at PK’s exhuberance might want to have a word with him about this respect business they’re all on about.
Doubtless he’s a fine hockey player, a loving son and kind to children and animals, but there’s just a hint of the whiny gobshite in there and a sense he can’t take a clean hit.
Never a good thing this early in a career one feels.
March 8th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Right on, BB. Funny how some whine about the Canadiens. Are they secretly scared? Love your sentence about the respect business.
March 8th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
I hope the law of Karma takes care of Mr. Chara.
He deserves to go to jail for what he did to Pacioretty did was absolutely criminal and intentional.
It just makes me sick.
March 8th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
The second dumbest thing Chara did was to sit in a bus….alone. If I were a man with a bad temper, I would be knocking on that bus door.
March 8th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
My stomach is in knots, Marjo. And although he’s the size he is, I think I’d be the guy knocking on the bus door.
March 8th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Danno, it was a vicious, sickening hit. And the Bruins are simply a sickening team – Chara, Lucic, Marchand. I can’t stomach them.