All Entries Tagged With: "NBC"
A New Take Coming To Light On The Mike Milbury Situation
A conflicting tale of Mike Milbury alleged assault on a 12-year boy is coming to light. There seems to be a wide disparity between witnesses’ observations on the post-peewee game antics that has landed the off-air NBC analyst in hot water, crimes and misdemeanors. Per this new take, evidently Milbury was merely breaking up [...]
The NHL’s New TV Contract: What it means for you (and why it’s really a dud).
The big news in the hockey world today is that of the NHL’s new contract with NBC Universal. Over the next ten years, the NHL seems to be drastically expanding its media profile via NBC and its various networks and platforms. Of course, this is being presented as something great for hockey. However, like anything [...]
@ The Trade Deadline, Facts Don’t Get In The Way
And so the NHL Trade Deadline, 2011 edition has come and gone. There’s tons of great coverage on the deals that were, the deals that weren’t and the deals that shouldn’t have been throughout the HI site. By all counts and measures, the block-buster deals of this trading season happened weeks ago, so today’s countdown to [...]
Weather Woes
So it was going to rain on Sid and Ovi’s parade after all. Between the 2nd and 3rd periods of yesterday’s World Junior Championship game between Canada and Sweden, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly announced on the NHL Network that due to the consistent forecasts of afternoon rain in Pittsburgh, the start time for the [...]
The NHL Should Pull Rank In Sochi
There is no doubt in my mind that the NHL should continue to participate in the Olympics in Sochi and beyond. Yes, I know it shuts down the league for two weeks but owners are still getting 41 home games just at a different time of the year and they are still getting the same [...]
Mike Milbury’s Eurotrash Disco: Comments Override Canada’s Huge Win
“I was shocked that it was this one-sided. And I was really disappointed that these guys came with their euro-trash game. It was just. No heart, no guts, no nothing there to back it up. I mean Alex Ovechkin was an average player tonight. I know they’re going to bounce back, but to be that [...]
Do YOU believe in Miracles?
I was 10 years old, living in a hockey crazed house in hockey crazed New England, and living just 25 minutes outside of Boston I worshipped Jimmy (Craig) and Rizzo (Mike Eruzione) and just 10 days before the Olympics was crushed to read in the newspaper (yes, I read the newspaper) that Russia had blasted [...]
Olympic Famine: NBC Starving Viewers of Hockey Coverage
Since the opening ceremonies in Vancouver kicked off the 21st Winter Olympics, the cherished ice-hockey round-robin preliminaries have presented hockey addicts with some already memorable moments. Beginning with the Swiss nearly stunning the seemingly indestructible Team Canada in a 3-2 shootout loss, Slovakia coming back from a one goal deficit in the third period to [...]
Olympic Day 5 Live Hockey Blog
Hello Everybody! The good Lord has given me a SNOW DAY today so I can stay home and watch Olympic hockey all day. (Hey who am I to question God’s will.) I decided that while I was watching I would grace you with my thoughts. So here is a (semi) Live blog of day 5 of the Vancouver [...]
Pens need to break away from sloppy defensive play
It seems like just yesterday when the Penguins, playing their fourth game of 2009-10, boldly marched into the Roman Colosseum that is the Wachovia Center on October 8, 2009 and boldly marched out with a 5-4 win over arch-rival Philadelphia in the first meeting of the season between the two clubs. Today is already game [...]
2012 Winter Classic to Change Dates?
I love the Winter Classic. There is just something about outdoor hockey that is 10 times better then the indoor version. Going into this year’s game I was kind of expecting a letdown after last year. The old baseball stadium thing had been done before and I really had no rooting interest in the game, [...]