These companies have decided that I will never watch an N HL game ever again.
I’ll be watching World Juniors, Olympic Hockey and Women’s hockey though
My two nephews love sports. They love watching the CEBL and they are excited to watch the Victoire.
The New generation will move on to teams they can actually watch. The NHL customer base will erode and become less and less relevant over time as they lose kids not to just other forms of entertainment but to other sports teams that are free to follow.
This is a very short sighted move by the league. It really exists to push gambling more than anything else these days.
Their goal is to groom our kids into a generation of addicts just like drug pushers. They don’t care how many lives they destroy as long as they make a healthy profit this quarter.
I haven’t been able to watch the Grey Cup on TV for years. It’s all locked up for the paid subscription crowd. It kind of sucks that a Canadian citizen needs to join something and pay money to cheer on their team.
First, watch rugby like a real Canadian.
Not LaCrosse?
Fills a different niche.
If the time differences for games wasn’t so harsh, I would absolutely watch rugby. And Aussie rules football.
Hockey is a rich white people game, at least in North America. I love it, but it is what it is. By limiting hockey to mostly rich white kids, the talent pool has dried up and the quality of the games has really suffered. And they want to expand even more because “money”.
Baseball is cheap to play. Basketball is cheap to play. Soccer (sorry rest of the world) is cheap to play. Football is even cheap to play. Hockey? Two pounds of flesh and your first born, for a stick.
compel private media companies to license sports events of national importance to TV stations that will air them free of charge.
Strongly against this, the NHL is not a charity. Why not “compel” them by legislation to give away licensing to Canadian media instead of forcing media companies to buy?
Greedy piggies. Tha hand of the market must be slapped when it overreaches and amputated if it can’t be trained.
You misunderstood my point, I think. I meant I was against giving them more money by mandating that media companies do so.
I am not watching men’s hockey again until they deal with their rape problems.
Sounds like someone needs some anti-siphoning laws
Short on cash…lower the player’s salary.
Or the owners. You don’t have to immediately attack labor you know…
I don’t understand people that get excited and insist on watching millionaires fight for a puck while others around them can’t afford groceries.
Good luck to them against the capitalism they cheer on.
Everyone in the stands surrounding the players can, in fact, afford groceries. It’s the tv watchers that are more likely not to be able to, but now there’ll be less of those.
