I am okay in the pools, I went Pittsburgh Vancouver hard, so we will see how that works. Do not like your Boston, I think they have already played their best hockey this year. Kreji will die eventually just Malkin did last year.

I am 12 hours into the future, I am lucky I work 2 to 9 so I get to watch the games before I get to work. I wrote at 1030 am on the 24th or 1030 pm on the 23rd

I love flipping back and forth too. On Wednesdays I flip with the sound off while listening to the IC Radio Show on the net. I should write a book: “Multitasking For Old Farts”. (OOPS — LANGUAGE!!! — “multitasking” is probably out now.)

They can’t schedule games for the daytime on a weekday. I’m sure the reason they had 5 game son the same day was arena logistics or something like that. Either way they would have had 4.

I actually don’t mind having a few games going on at once. I flip back and forth and don’t have to bother with ads or intermissions.

No problem (re;scoreboards). I’m glad to know that you are enjoying them.

Remember when the made a big deal about having all the teams play on one Saturday? You think they would have staggered them, but almost all started at 7. Its like that they can imagine that a fan would want to watch more than one team.

The illegal dish network usually has all the games. I am in Taiwan, so I live off the internet. I could but the online center ice pakage, but they cannot even show highlights properly on nhl.com, so why would I pay for something that does not work.

If it were not for hockey pools, I would have given up on this sport a long time ago.

When I said you could go get a dish from Canada to watch hockey I was talking irony, not economy. Still, condo/apartment issues aside, the cost of a Bell HD PVR dish and NHLCI for the first season would be about $1.58/day CDN (or the price of an extra large Tim Horton’s coffee) and $.50/day the next season (NHLCI only). And I don’t know anyone who drinks too much coffee or any hockey fans who wouldn’t give up one cup/day for NHLCI.

Now, I’m not a beerdrinker, but for those who are it would be about a 2 or 3 beer sacrifice per week wouldn’t it?

As for Versus — don’t get me started on play-by-play guys who say, “That wash out signal by the referee was to say, ‘No, that wasn’t a penalty…’.

Oops, sorry, that’s a HD Corner comment — don’t tell Drew.

Thanks for the scoreboards — especially like your comments.

I think we can accept the 13 hour drive as a valid reason to miss any number of things. Maybe not anniversaries or dinner at the in-laws…OK for dinner at the in-laws…

Courtesy of one of the guys from the Chicago Blackhawks blog on SBN (Second City Hockey) they sent me a link so I was able to watch the CBC feed online.

Versus only showed the Pits/Phil game and then the Ana/SJ (at least in Michigan) as I was hoping they would pop over and give us a bit of the Van/St.L OT.

As I indicated in my own column (re: NHL on ESPN) the NHL needs to get a clue on how to properly market the game. And that doesn’t included have 4 7pm start’s.

One thing that they’ve done that I like though are the new commercial with the clock counting down.

I would get a dish if I could, but being condo-bound, it adds a level of difficulty. As one of the original purveyors of the grey-market DirecTV dishes, I am fully versed in their benefits.

I would be thrilled to interview Bettman. Let’s hope someone reading this at NHL HQ reads this and makes the arrangements.

Yes, I get an email whenever someone comments on one of my articles.

And, please re-send me your first round selections and I will add them to the chart.

Enjoy the games, while listening to the radio show in the background–we are still awaiting your maiden phone call.

As for Bettman, I meant to his face. I’d love to see you interview him. You and Al Strachan. Set that up would you? (Bell has Score HD, by the way.)

By the way: 1) does your computer alert you when a comment is made at IC? 2) where are my picks on your chart? 3) the games are on…

I can’t speak for the entire country, but those of us in Manitoba who have Shaw (the biggest cable provider), don’t get RSNHD. Hell, we don’t even get The Score in HD. (We do get the Big10 network in HD for some bizarre reason.)

Ultimately, my point is that to make a hockey fan search high and low to watch your product during its heyday (the playoffs) is beyond ridiculous. A casual fan is not going to spend the time and effort to do so.

And what do you mean no one besides Red Deer Ron calls them on it? What has been my entire rep been based on??

No one ever seems to mention RDSHD, why is that? Isn’t it available in Ontario?

TSN2 isn’t available in Ontario on cable because of Rogers, is that right? But it is available in Ontario on Bell ExpressVu?

I don’t understand why Versus is so hard to get in the US — isn’t the US market supposed to be wide open, with no CRTC to dictate which provider can offer which programming?

Interesting that David and his friends in Detroit could just go across the bridge to Windsor and get a Bell dish and watch whatever they want. Quite the change from when we had to get a Direct dish from the US and set up a US address to get ESPN and watch hockey. Is that irony or what?

As for Bettman & Co. — never have so few received so much money for so long a period and done so much to sabotage the league they ostensibly run while professing with such fervor the opposite.

Red Deer Ron aside, no one ever seems to call him/them on it, either.