puck57
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lemieux32 said:I, obviously, love hockey, but to deny that hockey fans want hockey to be one of the "big four" sports is to sheild your eyes from the obvious. Go back through the archives and see how many people complained about the NHL signing with OLN...because the NHL "deserves" a major network deal. Sorry, but if you have been paying attention you would know this. It's not about not liking something because others don't. Do true NHL fans want to see the draft? Many do. Does that mean it's as big or will ever be as big as the NBA and NFL drafts? No, for the three reasons I originally mentioned.
Of course the hockey draft will never be "as big" as the basketball or NFL draft- for pete's sake you have a whole month of "March Madness" and there is wall to wall satuaration of college football for months in the fall. What I'm saying and maybe some others are is that let's at least TRY some different approaches like some games on OLN or other projects- they won't get the ratings of some of the other sports but even if it starts to grow some more casual viewership to start to watch isn't that some small victory to help grow the NHL and lower league and college hockey.