December 22, 2008
by Stephen M. Lepore
Editor’s Note: In case you missed it, this was a post titled “NHL, TV Partners Should Act Swiftly to Show Sharks” that we did for Kevin Schultz at his wonderful Barry Melrose Rocks while he was on vacation. Enjoy. But visit Kevin at his site, too. He’s good people, for a Long Island guy.
Hi everyone. Hopefully you know me if you read this fantastic website, but if you don’t, I sure hope you’ll check me out. Today, I had a whole Kevin Schultz in Vegas Drinking Game (Complete with me referencing the entire script from “Swingers”) planned out, but instead – much to all of your dismay – I’m going to talk about hockey, and hockey on TV.
As most of you reading this site know, the San Jose Sharks are hockey robots this season. Not these hockey robots, but hockey cyborgs. Unfortunately, due to the fact that the NHL and it’s TV partners seem so uninterested in teams west of Detroit, the Sharks have been largely ignored by most of the casual hockey viewers. All six of them.
This isn’t just a VERSUS thing, by the way. Though VERSUS won’t televise a Sharks game until February 10th when the Sharks are in Boston (and how the hell did VERSUS luck into getting that game?) and will air two more San Jose tilts before the year is out. CBC and TSN will only air a total of 7 Sharks games this season. This for a team that might be headed for a record-breaking NHL year?
Well, we realize that VERSUS can change it’s schedule for the rest of the year starting in January. So here are some suggestions to the network for changes that would involve the Sharks, and the entire NHL in general. Let’s go through the rest of the VERSUS schedule, beginning in February, after the NHL/NBC regular schedule kicks in and the All-Star Game is over.
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