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Don Wassall

Don Wassall

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Lo and behold, DirecTV now includes The NHL Network among its 999 or so channels. Looks to be in its infancy stage with little but game highlights being offered so far.


There's also the new Tennis Channel, to go along with the decade-old Golf Channel and the NFL Network. I like the fact that the NHL appears to have beaten MLB and the NBA in starting up a network. Having its own network has to be a good thing for hockey in the U.S.
 
I have DirectTV and this channel is freaking awesome! I was watching On the Fly and they were talking about how in Chicago, the Blackhawks appeared on the front page of the sports section ahead of the Bears and how the team was filling up the arena. Its funny to hear assclowns on ESPN shows like Around the Horn proclaim hockey to be dead (I'm talking to you Jay Mariotti) Yeah, it sure is dead alright (sarcasm) The NHL is definately on an upswing while the other "multi-culti" sports such as football (Mike Vick and PacMan Jones arrests) baseball (steriod scandals) and basketball (crooked refs, Ron Artest beating up fans) are all mired in controversy. Thats not to say that hockey will eclipse those sports in popularity, but it is always nice to see a sport like hockey which is about 98% white make players from the other major sports look like fools
 
Sadly the Dish Network only offers NHL Network as an expensive add-on. But it's great to have an all-White all the time hockey channel. Plus it's another banner year in the NHL. Most sports fans hate "parity" but with the NHL, I'll take it. Every team is chock full of excellent, disciplined, vivacious White hockey players. They are excellent team players and model citizens. The utter antithesis of the other sports.
 
There already is a network called "NBAtv" on some cable systems, and MLB doesn't have a network, but teams such as the Indians and the Yankees have their own channels. I would say that the NHL is actually last to the party on this one.
 
JoeV said:
There already is a network called "NBAtv" on some cable systems, and MLB doesn't have a network, but teams such as the Indians and the Yankees have their own channels. I would say that the NHL is actually last to the party on this one.
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NBAtv is a joke and is only available if you buy the basketball package. The Yankees network is only available if you have the sports package on DirectTV where as the NHL network is right after the NFL channel. Also, the NHL network has been around for a few years in Canada
 
Lance Alworth said:
NBAtv is a joke and is only available if you buy the basketball package.
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Any White person who orders the "NBA package" needs their head examined. I remember when my father was on the phone a few months ago with a representative from the local service provider, and he was in the process of ordering the NHL "Center Ice" Network. The sales rep kept trying to sell him the NBA package too. Needless to say, my father denied. When the sales rep asked why, my father replied with, "Why? So I can watch convicted felons juggle an orange up and down the court for three hours a night? I don't think so." (There was another word he was going to use intead of "felon", but he opted not to)
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Oh how I love the older generation. They really have NO qualms about saying what they feel.Edited by: Ground Fighter
 
There's also NHL Center Ice which has about a dozen live games every night. Unfortunately it costs a couple of hundred dollars a year on top of the usual cable/satellite bill.

An MLB channel is scheduled to start up in 2009.
 
Ground Fighter said:
Lance Alworth said:
NBAtv is a joke and is only available if you buy the basketball package.
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Any White person who orders the "NBA package" needs their head examined. I remember when my father was on the phone a few months ago with a representative from the local service provider, and he was in the process of ordering the NHL "Center Ice" Network. The sales rep kept trying to sell him the NBA package too. Needless to say, my father denied. When the sales rep asked why, my father replied with, "Why? So I can watch convicted felons juggle an orange up and down the court for three hours a night? I don't think so." (There was another word he was going to use intead of "felon", but he opted not to)
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Oh how I love the older generation. They really have NO qualms about saying what they feel.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Thats awesome!!!
 
There's also NHL Center Ice which has about a dozen live games every night. Unfortunately it costs a couple of hundred dollars a year on top of the usual cable/satellite bill.
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I happily pay the 200 bux annually for the service. NHL Center Ice beats any other programming on television -- except Kristina Abernathy on the Weather Channel.

Mulitple NHL games is a great concept. Switch back and forth and avoid commercials. The games are on regional affiliates, which are superior in quality to the "national" broadcast on Versus. And about once a week, RDS from Montreal broadcasts the Habs' games en Francais, which is a hoot (Le tir et le but !!) When one has about 20-30 minutes available for TV watching per night (I can't stay awake any longer), bang for the buck is important. So I pay for multiple caucasoid pro hockey games.Edited by: Realgeorge
 
NHL Network will pick up TSN's coverage of the World Juniors championship on Friday.

USA against Canada in the semi final game on Friday. The winner plays either Sweden or Russia on Sunday for the gold medal.

Canada/USA will be live at 1.30pm EST. I don't know if they're showing the Sweden v Russia game that is played just before it.

Believe it or not this junior tournament is often the biggest annual TV sporting event in Canada. I guess Canadians are starved for international hockey, something that has declined in importance since the sport was taken over by the US - or rather the "New York lawyers".

Anyway, it should be a dandy. Canada has won the tournament three years in a row - last year beating the USA in a penalty shoot-out at the semi-final stage. However, this year Canada lost a round robin game to Sweden and the Americans might even be favourites this time.

If you watch you'll notice a couple of black guys on the Canadian team. I've never seen that before.Edited by: Matra1
 
So much for the Americans being favourites and Canada struggling! Canada entered the third period with a two goal lead then the Americans imploded. Stupid penalties - caught twice with too many men on the ice - and they just conceded two goals in about 20 seconds.

Canada lead 4-0 with half a period to go.
 
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