Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Ongoing Thread

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Question for you. Why is it ESPN ignores the NHL? You know the opening of SC? they show ever champion from the past year but no Bruins, kind of lame.

I don't know what you're talking about with the Bruins. I personally saw a lot of footage of their victory parade on the Sportscenter. The funny thing is even though throughout the course of the year the NHL is underrepresented it seems to be a favorite sport to cover among many of the anchors "Bartender get me something on ice."

I guess part of it is self promotion. It's why on College Football Live analyst all to often will go off on long winded sidebars about how great the SEC is. Why virtually all the topics on First Take, PTI, Sportsnation, and Around the Horn mostly center around sports you see on ESPN like the NBA, College Basketball/football, Baseball, NFL, Tennis, Nascar.

Then again they also seem to ignore many sports they actually cover (on their flagship programs) like softball, "poker", Lacrosse, college baseball, WNBA, Worlds Strongest Man, etc.

The other part of it is the NHL still sort of qualifies as a niche sport. I'd guess that more people have heard of Ron Artest then Nicklas Lindstrom or Chris Pronger. However I think if the TV deal with ESPN would have gone through you would have seen more stories on Sportscenter and more talking points on the debate shows.

It's a giant conspiracy about the zionist and Israel, the liberal media, and the Illuminati consipring with the Roswell Aliens and Al Queda.

But yeah for now ESPN only really talks about the NHL when they have to. It's why you see topics on every little thing going on in the NBA and only the big things in the NHL.