Is there more rationality to hockey viewing?
All sports have similar blackout policies. I signed up for the NHL Gamecenter Live package one year and found out that due to my area I was blacked out from watching any NY Rangers, NY Islanders, NJ Devils, and Buffalo Sabres games.
Very little. For example, Milwaukee is in the Minnesota Wild territory, even though we are only 80 miles from the Blackhawks arena.
At least we get Wild games on our regional network, but no one cares. Every NHL fan I know in the Milwaukee area is either an Blackhawks or Redwings fan. No one cares about the Wild.
I’m the wrong guy to ask. Here in the NYC market we have three different NHL teams and they all play on cable stations with the same parent company. I couldn’t even begin to explain how they assign games to the different variations of MSG. LOL.