I was going to do a post about this subject the other night, but now that it's happened again... it feels absolutely necessary. What could possibly be Bettman's play on this one? Having so many games in one night (again) unlike in past seasons and not airing a single one on the almighty Versus (the NHL's main broadcast channel).

Is this the new way of promotion in today's(Bettman's) NHL? Even giving it a name "Saturday Spectacular" ...If it's so darn spectacular, then shouldn't at least ONE game or maybe even a double header be aired on the NHL's only mainstream cable network? Is this some way to make Direct Tv customers not feel so bad?

C'mon now Bettman, I'm no PR genius but tonight seems like a good of a night as any to do a big time hockey night of some sorts. I believe the other night, when I was originally going to post this conflict. Their was 12 games being played and not a single one was on Versus. Long gone are the days of Saturday/Friday Hockey Night with good ol' Bill Clement & Gary Thorne on ESPN. Several of tonight's match-ups would have made for a great build up. Especially our Red Wings taking on Ovechkin and the Caps.

I'm surprised I haven't really seen this mentioned anywhere else. Maybe most people have given up and moved on to alternate methods of viewing the game. NHL gamecenter seems like an over-priced joke. Options like sopcast,ustream, etc. are okay as last resorts but not great quality compared to TV. Not to mention they don't really do much as far as promoting the sport goes. What are some of your thoughts on this???

13 games in 1 night = Spectacular.

Not being able to watch them = Not so spectacular.

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