Thread: Thursday, October 1st Opening Night of NHL

Quote: Originally Posted by trellaine Any idea when or where a CentreIce schedule will be posted? It's only a few days until the season begins. Does Directv care? On a side note for those wanting to watch Thursday's games. It's available live streaming via CBC News - Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business News , click on sports. You sure thats available to everyone and not just Canadians? I doubt people in the states...

From an article in TVPredictions.com: DIRECTV has been so embarrassed by the dispute that it now says it would be willing to carry Versus' National Hockey League games while negotiations continue. (Well, how nice of them.)

Quote: Originally Posted by angiodan On Dish, the Habs/Leafs and Flames/Canucks is only in SD. Looks like we won't be seeing any HD games on CI from Canadian feeds again this year. Does any US provider carry the Canadian feeds in HD, outside of the broadcasts on the NHL network? I got setup with StarChoice this summer for this very reason, I personally couldn't find a single US provider who offered CBC/TSN/RogersSportsnet feeds in HD.

Quote: Originally Posted by peelpub94 According to this latest article on puckdaddy, NHL Network will be showing LESS full-on coverage of Saturday nite's HNIC broadcasts that we became so used to watching last season. This season, they are removing some instances of Coach's Corner, Hot Stove and a bunch of the 10pm games. They are replacing them which appear to be scattered weeknite games that we didn't get last year. I...

I had Versus off my favorites list BUT just put it back into Favorites. Power of positive thinking.

Quote: Originally Posted by KCK_Halo BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! I needed to hear that. Thanks. We need to sent an open letter to the NHL and tell them how stupid it was to drop ESPN as a partner. They chose a one network with horrible announcers and no other advertising on the station instead of a two network plus alternate stations and carried more than VS.

Patience grows slime when you're down to just 48 hours, for something they've been working on for a month with the channel off the system. Not to mention the customers that missed their team's college football games earlier this month, I think even Texas was one of the games, a pretty big school.

Quote: Originally Posted by peelpub94 You sure thats available to everyone and not just Canadians? I doubt people in the states can get it. That was the case last year - any game to an IP address outside of Canada was blocked but who knows this year

Quote: Originally Posted by peelpub94 Those of us in the states, specifically in the northeast, region doesn't seem to matter regardless.. appear to not be receiving the opening night games that are only aired on CBC. I just skipped ahead in my directv guide to october 1st, (the damn nhl center ice channels aren't even there yet) and the NHL network, which will normally air the CBC feeds on a Saturday nite, are not showing the...

Was it the point from this thread? http://www.satelliteguys.us/directv-...night-nhl.html