Pre-Game Talk: Chi @ nyr 8:00 pm nbcsn 2/17

[Irishguy42]

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

I hate 8 PM starts

It's worse for us! 2 AM means the puck-drop is at 2:15 AM and the game ends around 5 AM.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

You guys remember that the games were 7:30 for something like 20 years, right?

 

[Mac n Gs]

Please no Chris Summers. Please.

 

[tailgunner]

8 pm my ass, it'll start by 8:15 if we're lucky, closer to 8:20. It's NBC- they must squeeze in as many commercial breaks once people tune in at 8 for the game but before the puck drops when they'll be limited by the game rules for tv timeouts.

8:01 3 minute game discussion/interview (a long one to draw the viewers in)
8:04 4 minute commercial break
8:08 2 minute game discussion/interview
8:10 4 minute commercial break
8:14 1 minute game discussion/interview
8:15 2 minute commercial break
8:17 Puck drop

6 minutes of discussion for 10 minutes commercials- sounds about right.
That's my guess.

Once in the car stuck in traffic I timed how many commercials WFAN radio plays in between the babble from mike fransesca...8 minutes of mike F babbling and 10 straight minutes of commercials...mind boggling

 

[Vickers8]

Once in the car stuck in traffic I timed how many commercials WFAN radio plays in between the babble from mike fransesca...8 minutes of mike F babbling and 10 straight minutes of commercials...mind boggling

The commercials are more interesting than fatso

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I wish this game was today, tomorrow's very busy for me.

 

[Levitate]

Please no Chris Summers. Please.

Yeah should honestly be Skjei or Graves. Sure they won't be up long but I think giving guys a quick look every now and then isn't bad. With Summers you know you're going to get a subpar defenseman

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Please no Chris Summers. Please.

Would be nice to see Graves given a shot. Or Bodie

 

[NCRanger]

You guys remember that the games were 7:30 for something like 20 years, right?

7:37 puck drop is fine. In some ways I think the 7 PM starts are too early.

The 8:15 puck drop with what seems like an additional few minutes in between periods, leads to a very late night, when one has to be up at 5:15 in the morning.

There is absolutely no reason for the 8 ish PM start either.

 

[NCRanger]

Its not just you. with our national TV games, and games against the Flyers, this is the 6th game in a row that the rangers are on TV for me.

It doesn't suck

Well, we have been EXTREMELY LUCKY with the last few that the NBC games have been Kenny Albert in Pittsburgh and Gord Miller against the Kings. The two recent NHL Network games were the MSG feed.

We haven't had to deal with the screeching schoolgirl and biased nonsense for awhile (save for the Philly game where McDonagh was acting) on national games.

 

[Hire Sather]

4th straight CHI/NYR game to be on NBC SN.

At least 4. Can't recall prior to that.

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

Well, we have been EXTREMELY LUCKY with the last few that the NBC games have been Kenny Albert in Pittsburgh and Gord Miller against the Kings. The two recent NHL Network games were the MSG feed.

We haven't had to deal with the screeching schoolgirl and biased nonsense for awhile (save for the Philly game where McDonagh was acting) on national games.

luckily for me I was there

To be honest though, nobody in my section had any idea what happened until someone tweeted about it.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Oh please! This is just an excuse by the coach to make McIlrath help the Staal family at the hospital. This way he won't have to dress Wrath.

Well played AV...

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

With no Staal and Boyle

Probably gonna be

McD-G
Yandle-Klein
Summers-McI

Should be

McD-G
Yandle-McI
Skjei-Klein

 

[sbjnyc]

7:37 puck drop is fine. In some ways I think the 7 PM starts are too early.

The 8:15 puck drop with what seems like an additional few minutes in between periods, leads to a very late night, when one has to be up at 5:15 in the morning.

There is absolutely no reason for the 8 ish PM start either.

7PM for midweek games is great. I can usually get home before 11.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

I hate NBC broadcasts so much.

Doc, Pierre, Keith, Milbury. Fantastic Four.
8:20PM start time -> 10:30+ finish.
Pointless and generic coach interviews.
Hearing Pierre name every single NCAA and Junior team represented.

 

[darko]

Watch Kane go pointless tommorow. Rangers win 3-1.

 

[Florida Ranger]

I noticed if there's a game on NBC/NBCSN, every game that night starts 10 minutes after scheduled time instead of the typical 7 minute trend. I don't recall a "rivalry night game" on Wednesday starting 20 minutes after 8pm.

And I'll agree those 8pm games suck. It's an awkward start time and it ends awkwardly late

 

[BlueshirtBlitz]

I hate NBC broadcasts so much.

Doc, Pierre, Keith, Milbury. Fantastic Four.
8:20PM start time -> 10:30+ finish.
Pointless and generic coach interviews.
Hearing Pierre name every single NCAA and Junior team represented.

I'm with you, but I usually don't mind Pierre too much. Doc and Milbury make me .

 

[Miamipuck]

I hate NBC broadcasts so much.

Doc, Pierre, Keith, Milbury. Fantastic Four.
8:20PM start time -> 10:30+ finish.
Pointless and generic coach interviews.
Hearing Pierre name every single NCAA and Junior team represented.

Pierre makes me want to kick puppies and I love dogs. He's one of the absolute worst color guys I have ever heard. He makes me long for Dan Dierdoff, even Peter McNabb or Ed Westfall are more tolerable.

 

[SportsArchaeologist]

maybe he'll play better once he has a little one to play for

 

[aufheben]

For the love of God tell me Eddie Olczyk isn't doing this one lol

 

[Ail]

Big night tonight, first game at the new house. The bank told me I had to wait 3 years to sell it, but if the Rangers lose I will let it go back into foreclosure. They wouldn't let me test for hockey curses prior to closing. Typical banks.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

You know you can lift curses with voodoo?