They should just put the whole thing on NESN+ if they're going to use it at all.
NESN+ infuriates me. NESN has a whole second channel that they basically never use, except for the Hockey East semis because it seems like the Bruins are always playing a road game at the same time so they switch midgame, or some other random time when something was scheduled on NESN but they preempt it for some ridiculous reason and move it to NESN+. Otherwise, 90% of the time I look at it they just run audio only of what's on NESN at the time. I wish they'd just make a channel out of it. Put Hockey East games on it! You could have a game every Friday and Saturday! Hell, put ECAC or AHA games on it too if there's no HEA games.
When it's actually NESN-produced it's not so bad. The American Sports Network productions are supremely terrible, especially the studio guys. The one kid who was a club goalie at Stony Brook isn't so bad, but the host and that former BU player are really awful.