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David Stern put a gun to the head of all of the NBA's sponcers and media outlets to broadcast the WNBA if they wanted to do business with the NBA. Arena Football got pumped up by the NFL who is a major investor along with ESPN/ABC to use the league as a minor league since NFL Europe went in the toilet. Unfortunatly The Rock won't reach its full potential in gamenights until the Nets drop their LSD induced pipe-dream in Brooklyn.

The NHL should make an arrangement with both ESPN and VS similar to the NBA's with ESPN and TNT. Like it or not Sportcenter leads the way in terms of US sports coverage and ESPN has famously whored out SportsCenter to the NBA, college basketball, and Monday Night Football specifically to suit its own needs. ESPN didn't pay attention to UFC until it signed a contract. If the NHL were to even get a single game every week on ESPN2 it would mean more coverage on SportsCenter and a return of normal hockey highlights to mainstream American audiences. One of the complaints I have the most about hockey coverage is its the same 6 announcers no matter what network you may be watching. The NHL desperately needs new blood in the announcing booth. Get Keith Jones out of the studio and doing color, get Roenick to retire and doing color, get cameos by other sports stars in the booth not for 2 minutes but instead for a whole period. They showed Ben Rothlesberger in Lemieux's box last night. I'm sure a graduate of Miami of Ohio knows a little something about hockey.

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Finally a goal Price can't be faulted for.

Hartnell beats Price from Trois-Riveres.

I have been a Devils fan since 1986 and had a built-in hatred for the Flyers. At the beginning of this series I wanted Montreal to beat the snot out of Philly so bad that the Flyers would refuse to play game 4. I'm finding it VERY HARD not to root for the Flyers right now. Montreal has played "who cares/whatever" hockey since Game 5 of the Boston series and has become very hard to friggen root for. Philly is full of a bunch of cheap shot bastards but at least they have some fvcking heart.

Fraser wasn't chosen to work the 2007 playoffs and reffed his last game that season in San Jose the final night of the regular season. It probably didn't help him that he missed the first 2 1/2 months with a foot injury. As horrible the refs were in the Devils-Rangers series there was nothing worse than the officiating during the Philadelphia-Washington series. Where the hell is Rob Shick???

First hand I've seen crap thrown on the ice in "hockey markets" such as New Jersey, MSG, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh and in those cities all year hear is how "passionate" the fan base is. What happened was the DC fans simply had a temper-tantrum at what was idiotic one-sided officiating not only in Game 7 but for the whole series directly leading to the Capitals losing a Game 7 to a traditional rival in Philadelphia at home. I can guarantee you that the same thing would have happened in Newark if you had one goal coming if Marty had Oduya thrown into him and the GWG in OT scored after a mediocre tripping penalty after Devorski and Koharski swallowed their whistles turning the entire 3rd period into a hack-a-thon. As to fan loyalties in DC they're no better/worse than anywhere else in the country. DC does have the built-in disadvantage of being perhaps the biggest transient city in the country but if the Caps are playing well they will draw. They just happen to have played like utter crap for a good 5 years and it takes time for people to become interested in the sport again. I remember when the Yankees were drawing flies winning 60 games a year back in the early 90's and George was screaming about moving to Secaucus.

After the replay was shown on CBC's feed of the Boston-Montreal game they brought up that vague "misconduct" penalty. The feeling was Avery should have been put in the box for a 10 minute player misconduct meaning no PP for the Devils.

Marty covers up for Oduya with the first big save of the night on Callahan.

NCAA Frozen Four Brackett contest. Registration is free. http://www.collegehockeynews.com/community/contestrules.php

2 Upper Level tickets to Devils-Flyers game on Friday. Section 214, row 8 Face is $25 each which is all I'm looking for. Please PM me if you're interested.

I would like to be the Keeper of Don Koharski's empty box of doughnuts, Kerry Frasier's VO5 Hot Oil, and Paul Devorski's Hair Club For Men membership.

Right after I say Kipper is the 2nd best goalie in the NHL in the other thread he gives up a weak one to Chicago's Toews. 1-1

I picked Kipper as #2. If I would have voted "other" I'd probably go with Huet or Ward.

Is th enemy of my enemy my friend? I feel dirty for saying this but... LETS GO FLY-YERS!

This just in... That Brodeur guy is kinda good.

Ovetchkin with a bomb from the point. 3-2 Washington with 1:54 left.

Fenway isn't hosting a winter game anytime soon. Construction is scheduled for the next three winters while they rehab the park little-by-little. I still think it'll be Rangers-Detroit or Rangers-Montreal.

His ADD was fixated on such a suck-ass change by the forwards.

Remember when Price gave up 6 in San Jose a week ago? I love it when the Devils make rookie goaltenders look like the second coming of Terry Sawchuck. Of course it helps that all Devils shots are unscreened either from 60 feet out (I can stop those) or 2 feet in front (where Price just uses his size). How about working for a nice snapshot from 10-14 feet out in the slot? ugh, game over

Nice back-checking guys. 3 Devils leave Saku wide friggen open.