Deron, you wrote:

Editorial comment:

After the quality of games last night, Hockey East should by NO MEANS
TOLLERATE having their championship game taped delayed after this year.  The
quality of hockey and desire put forth last night deserves to be showcased
and if Fox Sports New England won't do it, find a station that will.  It is
incredibly disappointing that Hockey East fans have had to endure this,
again, this season.

I agree completely.  It was very annoying to have to wait until 10:15 Saturday night to see the game begin.  And what had they shown instead at 7:00?  NBA Tonight.  So given a choice between the HEA championship game and routine NBA action, they choose the latter.  To my mind it had to have been a contractual obligation, as it is hard for me to believe that any sports programming director with a brain would have made that choice freely.

One other thing that FSNE does that gets under my skin is their failure (unwillingness? inability?) to provide scores on other games in progress, Sara Fagan's comments notwithstanding.  Maybe I just missed them by being out of the room at the critical moment, but did anyone see or hear ANY other scores during any of the three games?  This was particularly aggravating since there were times I could hear that the Fleet Center announcer in the background was announcing scores but could not hear actually them.  And would Frede and Sweeney at least shut up for a minute to give listeners a chance?  Nah.  Must be part of FSNE's apparent policy of keeping hockey fans in the dark.  Much better to have endless numbers of sound bites with players and coaches.

HEA can do much better than this contract, with or without FSNE.

Craig Knowles
UNH  '71