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EDMONTON, Alta. — It’s hard to imagine that anyone wants Stanley Cup hockey running until the end of June, but here we are — face to face with a Cup final schedule that won’t start for another week. If it goes seven games, the NHL season won’t wrap up until June 24, three days before the league’s summertime awards-plus-draft extravaganza starts in Las Vegas.
But given how teams have cut down on their home pre-season schedules, as well as farming out their pre-season home dates to neutral venues, you can see how even teams are valuing these bonus dates less and less. Additionally, LeBrun notes, both ESPN and TNT are tied heavily into Major League Baseball’s playoffs, which run throughout October.The real issue, one surmises is really the back end of the schedule.
That’s not an issue anymore, but simple logic suggests that ABC, the modern network carrier of the cup final, would rather keep the schedule concurrent with the NBA Finals, which ABC also airs. Having the two final series airing on alternate nights to each other creates a tight two-week window for ABC’s scheduling.If you started the season in September, you’d be two to three weeks ahead of where we are now.
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