Clay Satow remarks:
 
> Also, I think it would be more reasonable to expect if it had been the type
> of OT used in regular season college or NHL games.  But "sudden death"
> hockey has some unique features.  Only baseball has a realistic potential to
> last as long, and only in hockey is it necessary for 15 minutes of "dead"
> time for resurfacing the ice for every overtime period.
 
There's no need for the network to stay with the hockey game during
this "dead" time.  When the Maine-Michigan game ran long in 1995, ESPN
showed as much of its regularly scheduled event (golf) as it could
during the intermissions.  (They could have periodically scrolled a
"Don't worry, hockey is in an intermission" message along the bottom
of the screen as well as saying it, but that's another story.)  FSNE
could, if they had so chosen, have shown the Celtics game live during
the intermissions between BU-SLU overtimes.
 
ESPN has a policy which I think shows integrity and attention to their
mission as a sports network.  FSN apparently does not.  Remember this
the next time someone complains about ESPN's Phrozen Phour coverage.
 
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