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. John Whelan, Cornell '91 [log in to unmask] http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.