There's a play in game Saturday and the leagues American TV partner won't show it

[KaseMeOutside]

This wouldn't happen in the NBA, NFL, MLB or probably even MLS. Makes no sense

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[wandk128]

The MLS is on tv?

 

[Jason316]

Is the game available in Canada?

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

It will be on NHL Network. Pretty hard for NBC to predict games like this, especially on a Saturday night prime time

 

[MR4]

Wth is a play in game? The PHI-FLA one that has like 1 in 10000 chances of happening?

 

[Bandit]

It will be on NHL Network. Pretty hard for NBC to predict games like this, especially on a Saturday night prime time

Yeah, they might have to preempt Sports Jeopardy!, or the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship in order toto show this game. How could they????

 

[DitchMarner]

Yeah, they might have to preempt Sports Jeopardy!, or the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship in order toto show this game. How could they????

Wait.. Americans watch curling? What the...?

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Yeah, they might have to preempt Sports Jeopardy!, or the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship in order toto show this game. How could they????

They may have a contract with the curling association?

These things tend to be a bit more complicated than most people think.

 

[Bandit]

Wait.. Americans watch curling? What the...?

No, they don't, and it's still more "popular" than NHL hockey. That's the sad bit.

 

[Bandit]

They may have a contract with the curling association?

These things tend to be a bit more complicated than most people think.

Absolutely, but you have to wonder why they have a more important contract with curling than they do with the NHL.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

It will be on NHL Network. Pretty hard for NBC to predict games like this, especially on a Saturday night prime time

Ugh. I use to swear up and down when a game I wanted to watch on Gamecenter Live wasn't available because it was playing on the NHL Network. I'm like " F***, I paid my money already to watch my team"

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Absolutely, but you have to wonder why they have a more important contract with curling than they do with the NHL.

It's not necessarily more important, but a contract is a contract. You can't just go around breaking them because a game became a play in game.

 

[karnige]

No, they don't, and it's still more "popular" than NHL hockey. That's the sad bit.

the NHL should really go back to espn. even for peanuts. its easily the most watched sports network. plus their youtube puts up everything.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Ugh. I use to swear up and down when a game I wanted to watch on Gamecenter Live wasn't available because it was playing on the NHL Network. I'm like " F***, I paid my money already to watch my team"

Yea that's the worst

 

[Bandit]

It's not necessarily more important, but a contract is a contract. You can't just go around breaking them because a game became a play in game.

It was deemed more important when it was signed. Otherwise there'd be a clause in the curling contract that if an NHL game was available it would take precedence.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Yea that's the worst

Another thing that happened once was being blacked out of a game that wasn't even close to the region I was living. That was infuriating.

 

[Oddbob]

There is no play in game in the NHL, what are you on about? All of Saturday's games are teams playing Game 82, not some mystery Game 83.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

There is no play in game in the NHL, what are you on about? All of Saturday's games are teams playing Game 82, not some mystery Game 83.

Col vs Stl is a play-in game

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

It was deemed more important when it was signed. Otherwise there'd be a clause in the curling contract that if an NHL game was available it would take precedence.

The absence of an out clause means nothing about the relative importance of those relationships.

 

[hockeykicker]

This wouldn't happen in the NBA, NFL, MLB or probably even MLS. Makes no sense

well it cant happen in nfl since all games are nationally televised. but it does happen a lot, especially in april when baseball is on. espn is required to have a monday night and wednesday night baseball game on espn every week and basketball cannot overrule it. so if theres an nba play in game on a monday or a wednesday, oh well baseball rules over it

 

[Oddbob]

Col vs Stl is a play-in game

No it isn't, it is game 82 in each teams schedule. Just because it works out that it is there last game of the season, doesn't make it a "Play-in Game!"

 

[BleedBlue14]

Thank god it's not on NBC SPorts. I'd rather not listen to Doc Pierre and Eddie. I'll stick with the local broadcast

 

[Bandit]

The absence of an out clause means nothing about the relative importance of those relationships.

I'll respectfully disagree. If you have something that matters, you do everything you can to ensure that it is the most important thing on your agenda, otherwise, it simply isn't.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

NBC/NBCSN and NHL agree to broadcast games way in advance....

 

[hockeykicker]

I'll respectfully disagree. If you have something that matters, you do everything you can to ensure that it is the most important thing on your agenda, otherwise, it simply isn't.

well espn doesnt do it either

 

[gertbfrobe16]

lol espn the social national enquirer of sports network sucks at covering sports.