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2009-2010 NHL Season Part 3: After The Gold Rush

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bronconick said:
Steve Ott is getting a 4 year extension at a shade under 3 million per year to stay in Dallas. This leads to the question-

Steve Ott is worth almost $3 million as a hockey player?
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In a world where Milan Lucic makes 4M, yes.
 
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I don't know if this belongs here or in the Olympic thread

http://sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/hockey-night-in-america-gold-medal-game.html

Hockey drew NFL-like ratings on NBC Sunday.

The Canada/USA Olympic Men's Hockey Gold Medal game drew a 17.6 overnight rating on NBC Sunday afternoon, up 46% from the '02 Gold Medal game, which featured the same two teams.

Overnight ratings for the 2006 Gold Medal game were unavailable.

Sunday's game is on pace to finish as the highest rated hockey telecast in the United States since 1980.

To put the numbers in perspective, Sunday's game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since 1998, and every NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four game since at least '98.

Excluding the NFL, the 17.6 overnight for the game is the second-highest of the year for any sporting event, behind only the Texas/Alabama BCS National Championship Game in January (18.2).
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Very impressive ratings for what was essentially hockey's Super Bowl. The Cup Finals will never do that well because it's multiple games and even a lot of hardcore fans check out if their team isn't involved.
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
Very impressive ratings for what was essentially hockey's Super Bowl. The Cup Finals will never do that well because it's multiple games and even a lot of hardcore fans check out if their team isn't involved.
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Perfect storm as well with Two North American teams in a North American time zone.

Either way, it seems like the NHL has gotten a number of concessions out of the IOC. The limit on group stage games at 3 and the elimination of the classification games should go a long way to alleviating the injury concerns.

Gary Bettman would have to be an idiot to cut out this kind of publicity. I know a lot of those viewers we're probably fairweather fans swept up in patriotism/feb sports boredom, but its great publicity and an event every 4 years isn't really that much of a hardship. Its not like their being asked to suspend the Stanley Cup playoffs for the World Championships or anything.
 
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bronconick said:
I don't know if this belongs here or in the Olympic thread

http://sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com/2010/03/hockey-night-in-america-gold-medal-game.html
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In what should be no shock at all... check out the Canadian numbers:

Sunday's gold medal Men's Hockey game has become the most-watched television broadcast ever in Canadian history, with an average audience of 16.6 million viewers.

Nearly half of the Canadian population watched the entire game on average, while 80 percent of Canadians watched some part of the game (26.5 million). The game aired live on nine television networks in eight languages via Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
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I'm biased, but I'm still stunned that after yesterday 21-year old Jonathan Toews has FIVE gold medals on his international resume. In just six tournaments.
 
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Well, I guess you can't fault VS. for trying.
VERSUS will drop the puck on its wall-to-wall post-Olympic hockey coverage tonight at 9 p.m. ET when the Colorado Avalanche host the Detroit Red Wings in the first game following the two-week Olympic break and the only NHL action on television tonight. The action continues on Tuesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET when the Philadelphia Flyers visit the Tampa Bay Lightning.

To build on the excitement generated by the 2010 Winter Games, the network added five bonus games to the week’s schedule. VERSUS’ first bonus game of the week, on March 2, will feature the San Jose Sharks hosting the New Jersey Devils at 10:30 p.m. ET. The match-up will showcase many U.S. and Canadian Olympic hockey team members, such as Zach Parise and Jamie Langenbrunner of the Devils and Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski of the Sharks. The game will not air on VERSUS in the team markets due to local blackout restrictions.

On Wednesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. ET, VERSUS will televise the Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres game, in which goaltender Ryan Miller, MVP of the Olympic hockey tournament, will resume his post in the Sabres net and Alex Ovechkin makes his return to the NHL-leading Capitals. Local blackouts apply so home team markets will see the Philadelphia Flyers/Florida Panthers game at 7:30 p.m. ET.

VERSUS’ week of bonus game coverage concludes on Thursday, March 4, when Sidney Crosby of the Penguins and the hero for Team Canada with the Gold Medal game-winning goal, will visit the New York Rangers at 7 p.m. ET. The game will be blacked out in team markets and viewers in Pittsburgh and New York will have access to the Toronto Maple Leafs/Boston Bruins game.

Beginning on Tuesday, March 2, and continuing through the end of the regular season, VERSUS will also air HONDA Drive to the Playoffs; a 30-minute pre-game Hockey Central prior to each Tuesday night NHL telecast. The network will also air full half-hour pre-game shows on March 1 and 3. The network’s regular season coverage continues on Monday, March 8, at 7 p.m. ET when the Dallas Stars visit the Washington Capitals and on Tuesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. ET with the Philadelphia Flyers hosting the New York Islanders.
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They're trying. Although if you've got DirecTV you're not seeing tonight's game. Also if you have DirecTV and Center Ice you're still not seeing tonight's lone game, but you probably knew that already since it's a Versus exclusive broadcast.

Also: Denis Grebeshkov traded from Edmonton to Nashville for a 2nd round pick. Edmonton is slated to play in Nashville tomorrow night. Imagine that talk (in Russian I figure) "Hey, Denis, can you grab your gear and move it over to the other locker room? Why? Oh, yeah... You're playing for them now."
 
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Frankly, even though the NHL is pretty much a 6 year old between a couple 50 ton goliaths when it comes to DirectTV and Comcast, Bettman ought to say something other than "Well, I hope they resolve it." Get off your lazy, incompetent *** and offer some sort of mediation. They'll both turn you down, but at least you looked like you did something.
 
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bronconick said:
Frankly, even though the NHL is pretty much a 6 year old between a couple 50 ton goliaths when it comes to DirectTV and Comcast, Bettman ought to say something other than "Well, I hope they resolve it." Get off your lazy, incompetent *** and offer some sort of mediation. They'll both turn you down, but at least you looked like you did something.
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He doesn't want to go and upset Big Brother NBC though, especially now that Comcast is buying into them and they already own Versus. Why choose a side now and bite the hand that feeds you gruel?

It's stupid. I'm sure if something gets done before the playoffs he'll act like the hero of the day for giving the fans their playoff action while making all the regular season games that DirecTV subscribers missed out on seem like nothing. After all, it's just the playoffs that matter to fans, right? :rolleyes:
 
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The espn.com story on the TV ratings for the gold medal game had an interesting tidbit:

Buffalo -- where tournament MVP Ryan Miller plays for the Sabres -- was the top individual market in the United States, with a 32.6 rating. Pittsburgh, Detroit, Minneapolis and Milwaukee rounded out the top five.
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No numbers to quantify and give that further context, but I'll say that one of those cities COMPLETELY shocked me.
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
Also: Denis Grebeshkov traded from Edmonton to Nashville for a 2nd round pick. Edmonton is slated to play in Nashville tomorrow night. Imagine that talk (in Russian I figure) "Hey, Denis, can you grab your gear and move it over to the other locker room? Why? Oh, yeah... You're playing for them now."
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Heh, that's convenient.
 
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Anaheim trades Evgeni Artyukhin to Atlanta for Nathan Oystrick and a 2011 pick.
 
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