will ESPN or ESPN2 televise the draft ?

[CoolburnIsGone]

I usually use a combination of the sites mentioned (NHL, ESPN, & TSN) because one of them will update it. But I found that actually being in the HF chat room was worth doing as there was some good conversations and then discussions of current picks as soon as they occurred. I'll have to remember to log on to IRC right before the draft starts.

 

[Draftman]

Don't complain! Before the Internet there was NO WAY to get information on the draft. Back in the 1970's and 80's they would report on the first round but that was about it.

There used to a telephone sports service in NY that I would have to call over and over again in order to get the local picks. If I waited too long, they would stop annoucing them. The local papers would usually only print the first two rounds the next day. I'd have to wait until THN came out to see the entire draft.

Thank G-D for HF, NHL.com, and the Internet!!

 

[Ch 4 Action News]

Nesn

The New England Sports Network aired TSN's broadcast of the NHL trade deadline this year so I am hoping that they give us some kind of bonus coverage of the draft too. That would be sweet.

 

[RI Canuck]

The New England Sports Network aired TSN's broadcast of the NHL trade deadline this year so I am hoping that they give us some kind of bonus coverage of the draft too. That would be sweet.

I checked their site today to see future programming and according to the grid they will not show the draft or show TSN.

 

[Parrish]

Uh, has anyone seen the NHL's ratings in the U.S.? I hate to say it, but I'm glad we're getting 3 hours. Sometimes I think we HF'ers make up about 1/2 the viewing audience.

See this is the realy interesting thing about tv ratings now.For the most part they are completly false.They only know what prolly 1 out of 200 people are actualy watching.Those are the people that have tracking devices on there tv.

The rating companies simply takes that one persons tv scedule and throws it into a huge pool witch is later multiplied by 200.heres an example of how it works....


theres a town with a poplulation of 10,000.well theres prolly 500 people with tracking devices.say that this is the progrming results for that night.

NHL hockey:25
friends:200
wrestling:150
cosby show:50
two girls and a guy xxx:75

Then they they multiplie each tally by 20 to equal the 10,000 people even though realy only 500 were acconted for.

So they would assume of the 10,000 people that 500 people are wtching NHL when in fact it could be any where from 25 people to 9,525.

 

[hillbilly]

would be nice, if we could order a special draft thing on pay per view or something

 

[ttnorm]

How about NHL Center Ice?

 

[penkil2]

A local TV station in Raleigh is picking up both draft days. Not sure if we could access it some way.

 

[User571]

Knowing ESPN they will cancel the draft broadcast and put on a dog-show.

 

[Seachd]

Knowing ESPN they will cancel the draft broadcast and put on a dog-show.

There's no way they show a dog show if there's a spelling bee.

 

[tom_servo]

I probably wouldn't want to watch past the first round anyway. Do they even come up to the podium after that?

 

[Parrish]

There's no way they show a dog show if there's a spelling bee.

No, cmon guys lets be honest schools out.It would likely be the world scrable tour.

 

[User571]

No, cmon guys lets be honest schools out.It would likely be the world scrable tour.

I dont know-Poker is on a roll right now. i happen to have a game-used ace of spades card of chris moneymaker. I also have a Moneymaker rookie card which I would gladly trade for card #317, the most rare and elusive card in the world.

 

[Kipper933]

I wish the NHL Draft got as much air time and exposure as the NFL Draft

While I know you're talking about in America, I'm a little surprised they don't show the whole draft in Canada.

Since if we're comparing the level of percentage of people interested in football in the US vs. the percentage of people interested in Hockey in Canada, the Hockey-Canada connection would have a much greater %.

 

[XX]

But theres not that many Canadian teams overall in hockey.

 

[Kipper933]

But the passion/interest for the game is unrivaled. Now more so than ever, I think.