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ESPN seals six-year deal to televise and stream men’s and women’s Hockey East games

Presumably, the "exclusive" deal with ESPN means no college hockey on NESN and NESN+. So, not fabulous. Interestingly, no mention of the Beanpot.

Hockey is and will remain the red-headed stepchild at ESPN.
 
Split-N said:
Presumably, the "exclusive" deal with ESPN means no college hockey on NESN and NESN+. So, not fabulous. Interestingly, no mention of the Beanpot.

Hockey is and will remain the red-headed stepchild at ESPN.
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It's believed they will keep NESN/NESN+ games. This should essentially replace the CBS deal but include a few nationally televised games as well.
 
Should be a good deal. No more free CBS if you love outside NE, but I knew that was going to be short lived.
 
SNHUPenman said:
This is fabulous. CBS stream was garbage IMO. The ESPN+ sub is well worth the money. This is very welcome.
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The article didn't say if ESPN would produce the games or just stream. I'd guess that the conference final and ESPNU games will be produced by ESPN.
 
toc said:
Should be a good deal. No more free CBS if you love outside NE, but I knew that was going to be short lived.
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They will have to upgrade standards for video per ESPN. So the overall viewing experience will finally improve from the absolute disaster that was CBS.
 
njmav1 said:
The article didn't say if ESPN would produce the games or just stream. I'd guess that the conference final and ESPNU games will be produced by ESPN.
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Going by what I saw from the ECAC I would think very little will change with production and ESPN+ is just there to stream em.
 
As a cord cutter, thank god. It was literally impossible to get the majority of Hockey East games on my Roku.
 
this is only is good if the stream quality improves. CBS's video quality was potato.
 
Doing new deals with NESN and ESPN is a big plus for the new commissioner
A lot of previous complaints was lack of a TV deal

With attendance down in many places does having every game available discourage people from attending
 
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