[discostu]

NHL ratings suck one way or the other. Who's playing doesn't matter. Even the Devils vs the Lanche (with interest from Boston fans because of Bourque) got crappy ratings. The league needs to do a lot of audience building across the board before the teams in the Finals have a serious effect on the ratings, as it sits right now the ratings will either be crappy or really crappy, hopefully someday they'll have the choice between good and so-so.

[Alberta's Child]

Larry Post of the New York Post said it best . . . "For the second time in a row the NHL has what it has spent years trying to get -- a Stanley Cup finals with no big-market teams and no high-profile players."

I long for the day when all of those hockey teams in silly markets like North Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Florida, etc. just disappear.