CBC to air 10 AHL games, only one Binghamton game
CBC Sports has teamed up with the AHL to broadcast 10 games, each featuring two affiliates of Canadian NHL teams. The first game will be on Sunday, October 17 at 1pm ET between the Binghamton Senators and Toronto Marlies.
Each Canadian NHL team will have its AHL affiliate featured. Both Binghamton (Ottawa) and Oklahoma City (Edmonton) will appear only once, while the Toronto Marlies will be shown seven times.
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Really?
Seven times? Seems they could balance things out a little better than that. Saying each Canadian team will be featured is a little misleading. Sure they will, but this is primarily a showcase for Toronto obviously.
Andrew Filipe
by AndrewAuCourant on Aug 19, 2010 4:47 PM EDT reply actions
For the record
I do understand that it’s a marketing decision to show the Marlies (and Bulldogs) as often as they do. The TV audience in the GTA who would tune in far outweighs the viewership for, say, Abbotsford. But take a look at this breakdown of how many appearances per team:
Oklahoma City (Edmonton), 1
Binghamton (Ottawa), 1
Abbotsford (Calgary), 3
Manitoba (Vancouver), 4
Hamilton (Montreal), 4
Toronto (Toronto), 7
On January 16 there is a Toronto at Abbotsford game that is on at 2pm ET, which is 11am PT. It’s ridiculous that Abbotsford has to play a game at 11am local. And you can do Abbotsford at Manitoba, but you can only fit Oklahoma City at Hamilton? What about Oklahoma City at Manitoba/Abbotsford? What about Binghamton in Hamilton? They get the Binghamton and Oklahoma City games out of the way in October and then never again.
A snake made of brass - Silver Seven
I assume
Of the twenty games to be televised, that the Marlies get a crack at all five opponents?
Seems to me that a Hamilton/Binghamton game could have been thrown in there rather than the a second Marlies/Moose matchup. Even a second Sens/Marlies game would be a better draw than that extra Manitoba game. Like you said, how many Westerners are going to wake up for a game played in Toronto?
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 20, 2010 12:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Let's see ....
That’s twenty games …. divided by two teams per game …. carry the one ….
I guess I meant ten games.
Also, I spoke about Westerners waking up for a game in Toronto, but the wacky part is, that morning game is actually in Vancouver.
Sorry Reverand, but I gotta leave early. I’ve got tickets to the game and I want to make sure I get my beers before the sun reaches its apex, or the puck drops …. whichever comes first.
Americans don’t even play their sports in the A.M., for crissakes.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 20, 2010 8:03 AM EDT up reply actions
Oklahoma City plays Hamilton
I think there’s three Hamilton-Toronto games, but don’t quote me on that. I didn’t look it up again.
Technically Abbotsford isn’t in Vancouver. It’s a 70-minute drive from my place, and there’s no public transit there. Now, why the Flames affiliate is close to Vancouver while Vancouver’s is closer to Calgary is beyond me. I’ve got a friend in Abbotsford and he talked about how the Heat don’t sell that well unless they’re playing the Moose. But yeah, it’s not Vancouver but it’s still pacific time and the game starts in the AM here. Crazy.
No, really, I don’t get why the Heat are under an hour and a half from downtown. I also don’t get why they abandoned a great opportunity to use that awesome Atlanta Flames logo for them. The Heat logo is awful.
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by Ryan Classic on Aug 20, 2010 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I once took a bus from Richmond to Coquitlam
It took about 90 minutes.
To me, everywhere on the lower mainland seems like it’s way out of town, but I guess Abbotsford is a stretch. I remember as a kid visiting Chilliwack, my uncle’s car was towed away and we ended up walking for so long to the impound lot that the stuffing was permantly squeezed out of the neck of my prized Dino plush toy. Gone, gone, gone, the car had been gone so long. We might have walked to Abbotsford, for all I know.
And I must agree. Opportunity squanderd:
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 20, 2010 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions
It takes me 90 minutes to bus to work
… from Barrhaven to the General Hospital. I have to take the bus north to downtown and across the river, and then transfer to another bus and go south to the hospital.
It’s an absurd ridiculosity.
by Peter Raaymakers on Aug 21, 2010 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought all doctors had car services
I suppose, then, that I can count on your vote in October?
After all, I propose to build an LRT line along the Transitway, south from Hurdman, past the airport, and ending at the Rideau-Carleton Raceway. The pseudo-casino would attract more traffic, generating additional streams of income to offset the cost of the tracks, while also serving as the terminus for express buses that ran east along the Strandherd-Armstrong bridge.
A trip from Barrhaven to Smythe and Riverside would be cut to roughly 25-30 minutes, including wait time. And commuters could defray the costs of their transit passes by shooting coyotes from the comfort of the train, as they pass through South Gloucester.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 21, 2010 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I have a screen cap of this, now
So unless you want your readers to know you’re a liar, I’d suggest you inform Alex Cullen that you’ve had a change of heart.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 25, 2010 1:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Who said I'm voting for Alex?
I’m actually still undecided. Tough to know who to vote for when few of the candidates have actually release platforms.
by Peter Raaymakers on Aug 25, 2010 8:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Who said I’m voting for Alex?
Precisely. That’s what I like to hear. Team Spezzal Teams all the way in 2010!
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 25, 2010 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Sweet!
It makes sens that the two American teams are only shown one time each, while the Canadian-based ones are much more heavily featured. And the Marlies, well… does that surprise anyone?
I wonder how closely the proportion of their farm team is shown matches the proportion of the NHL team on HNIC. Probably pretty closely!
by Peter Raaymakers on Aug 19, 2010 5:02 PM EDT reply actions
Agree, it makes sense that the Canadian-based AHL teams would be on more frequently. I wonder if this will lead to an attendance increase at Marlies games? How many Torontonians even know the team exists?
Oh, they know they exist, but they like to call them "The Maple Leafs".
Will be the same players come November anyways.
Who even buys tickets for an 11am game?
While I’m not so shocked by the Marlies Showcase masquerading as meaningful AHL coverage, I’m really surprised Abbotsford would even allow for such ridiculous scheduling to pander to the Ontario audience. First priority should be putting butts in seats at the actual arena!
That being said, as much as I detest afternoon games, Sens are coming to my neck of the woods this year for one game vs the Oilers in Feb with a noon local start on a Saturday. Normally, I wouldn’t be thrilled but it will be my little guy’s first Sens game at five months old and noon will be just about right for him.
So, Americans and babies – is this the NHL’s primary audience these days? So hard to keep track.
Are you West coast people not used to this?
I’m not making a joke of this but it seems that every major sport on the west coast has to make time adjustments to meet eastern time zone requirements. From Baseball to hockey to football it seems all major events like playoffs are timed to make the east happy
by Hockey Playoff Run SensFan on Aug 20, 2010 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Yes and no.
We expect that on weeknights we’ll have to hurry home from work if we want to catch any of the games being played back east, and we expect that on weekends, if we want to watch the Yankees and Sox, there’s a good chance we’ll have to tune in at 10am. And finally, we expect that during championship series (SCF, WS and to a lesser extent, the NBA), the game times will, regardless of where the game is actually being played, be determined by whatever the TV network wants.
But there’s a big difference between scheduling, say, an Anaheim Angels World Series home game at 5pm local time and an AHL regular season game at 11am local time. The first one, we get, because it’s a national event, and TV networks just aren’t going to stand for it, having the World Series stretch on until 2am EST. But to schedule something as meaningless (let’s face it) as an AHL regular season game so that it starts at the same time as local Sunday church services is taking it too far.
Is the home team going to be able to sell reasonable amounts of beer at puck drop? Then do it up. Otherwise, just wait a fricking hour. And anyway, what is CBC airing on January 16 that is so important they can’t push it an hour so that the game might start in the PM local time?
by dzuunmod on Aug 20, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
dzuunmod is right about the scheduling part
I’m used to watching Senators games at 4pm. I’m also used to afternoon games on the east coast starting at as early as 10am. But a local game starting at 11 is just plain silly.
A snake made of brass - Silver Seven
by Ryan Classic on Aug 20, 2010 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you guys just keep drinking on New Year's Eve?
Or do you simply not watch the Winter Classic? I know I couldn’t do both.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 20, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
We typically don't watch.
I’ve woken up hungover before midway through the game. I think I saw a period of Detroit and Chicago. I watched last year’s but I admit to nearly falling back asleep partway through.
A snake made of brass - Silver Seven
by Ryan Classic on Aug 20, 2010 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Then again, last New Year's I spent most of the night drinking champagne and playing Mario 3. Priorities.
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by Ryan Classic on Aug 20, 2010 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Mario 3 is so far and away the best
Amazing.
by Peter Raaymakers on Aug 21, 2010 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You young'uns and your fancy new-fangled games
In my day …. we’d walk 10 miles through the snow for the chance to play the original Mario Bros. None of this Super Mario stuff. Just a pair of non-super human brothers whose job it was, as plumbers, to keep the turtles and crabs who escaped the city’s drainage pipes from running amok.
And we didn’t spend no hundreds of dollars to do it, either. You’d say, “Gimme four moose for a paper dollar” – what with paper being the style at the time – and then you’d carefully place one of those quarters on the machine’s canopy, to indicate your intentions to challenge the reigning champion.
And we didn’t have any of these fancy scrolling screens, with their infinite backdrops. Just two men, in a room, with four floors, and if you ran off the screen stage-right, why you’d reappear instantly on the left-hand side of the screen.
We didn’t have no super-powers neither , like becoming giants or throwing fireballs. All we had were hard hats and a well-place POW! button, but even that could only be used a few times before our allotment was up. And when we did manage to use our heads to smack a turtle through the ceiling, that would merely turn him around. You had to smack those little buggers three times just to knock them on their backs, but even that didn’t kill them off. You still needed to go up to their floor and physically kick them away before they found a way to get off their shells.
That’s just the way it was …. and we liked it.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 21, 2010 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Did you play Radek Bonk's Adventure?
A snake made of brass - Silver Seven
by Ryan Classic on Aug 22, 2010 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions
And I've lived here for how long?
It never even occured to me that they weren’t actually moose. Imagine that.
I blame the Mint. When I was a kid, you either got one with a caribou or, if you were lucky, one with a Mountie on the back. Nowadays, there are like 72 different versions of the quarter, making harder to keep track.
I’m actually surprised that still none of these new-fangled coins comes with a moose on the back. I mean, there are two different quarters that feature curling, for crissakes, as if Paralympic curling is any different than regular curling, and needs its own design.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 23, 2010 3:45 AM EDT up reply actions
What was that game where you had three types of skaters – the little fast guy, the medium guy, and the big fat guy with the booming shot?
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 23, 2010 3:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Ice Hockey
You could get into brawls in that, and the winner got a power play. I also made a hack called Dustin Penner ’88.
A snake made of brass - Silver Seven
by Ryan Classic on Aug 23, 2010 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I may have dreamt this
Does anyone else remember an interview where a Sens player (maybe Spezza) was talking about the Ice Hockey game, and coming up with examples from the team for the fast guy, medium guy and fat guy? He said Kelly was the perfect medium guy. This is an impossible fact to google.
It happened
I think it was on Overtime. I remember it.
by Peter Raaymakers on Aug 24, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Who was his perfect fat guy?
I’ll bet when asked that follow up question, Spezza just giggled and waited for the next question.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 25, 2010 1:13 AM EDT up reply actions
Of course, the beauty part to the whole thing...
…is that Sens games typically run through happy hour at my local watering hole, so I can justify the expense of going to my local Centre Ice-equipped establishment to partake.
If Burke can't move Finger
At least the Marlies can boast the likes of Gunnarsson, so there’s that ….
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 20, 2010 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d wake up at any hour to see a Marlies/Leafs game. They could promote it as the “One Toronto Team Will WIn Cup”. I bet it goes to shootout….even then, I have no idea who’d win.
My money’s on Toronto.
No wait. Scratch that. Put me down for a dime on Toronto, in stead.
by Spezzal Teams Playa on Aug 25, 2010 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions
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