Behind the Broadcast: NHL doesn’t need to be aired on ESPN, where it gets little respect

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Behind the Broadcast: NHL doesn’t need to be aired on ESPN, where it gets little respect

Saturday, July 4, 2009

By Ken Schott (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

While I’d like to see the NHL back on ESPN as a second cable home for the NHL, I have serious doubts that it would improve its coverage of the league, even if it had a share of the cable broadcast rights....

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