Heidi Androl and Some Dude Host NHL.com Pre-Game Show

We’re kidding.  We love Rob Simpson… whoever that is.  From NHL.com: 

With the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs set to begin on Wednesday night — unquestionably one of the more entertaining nights of the year — NHL.com will debut the Cisco All-Access Pre-Game Show at 4:30 p.m. ET from the NHL Store Powered by Reebok in midtown Manhattan. 

Co-hosts Heidi Androl and Rob Simpson will be breaking down each game Wednesday night and will do the same every day of the playoffs that a game is scheduled. For Wednesday’s openers, there will be on-location reports from New Jersey and Washington, plus a visit fromBuffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller. On Thursday, New York Islanders center Doug Weight will sit with Heidi and Rob to talk about the postseason, and the Isles winning the right to pick first in June’s NHL Entry Draft. 

This is a great idea.  The NHL just needs to keep expanding it’s coverage of… itself to suit it’s fans as more mainstream sources continue to either shun it or run out of money.