But that request wouldn't go over so well in, say, the Stanley Cup finals.
The Bruins and Rangers met in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1929.
But market power is helping to lead a nice recovery in the Stanley Cup Finals.
The NHL Stanley Cup finals had an exciting series and a nice high-def broadcast, so everybody's happy right?
The previous year, they faced each other in the Stanley Cup finals, and the Bruins won in six.
The previous year, they faced each other in the Stanley Cup finals where the Bruins won in six games.
Boston's win in Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals drew the sport's highest rating in 37 years.
That included a surprising run to the Stanley Cup finals in 1999, when Buffalo lost to Dallas in six games.
The Flyers made it in his second year to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, which they lost to the Chicago Blackhawks.
New Jersey Devils could win the Stanley Cup Finals, and in that aftermath, banks could seize the club and sell it.
The New Jersey Devils were set to lose a fortune last season before reaching the Stanley Cup finals and turning a slight profit.
They faded again in local attention after a heartbreaking loss in the Stanley Cup finals in 1993, followed by years of poor performance.
One year after a surprising run to the Stanley Cup finals, they are gone without getting a chance to defend their title in the postseason.
After the Ducks knocked off top-seeded San Jose in 2009, Detroit beat eighth-seeded Anaheim in the second round on the way to the Stanley Cup finals.
When this truncated NHL season began in January, the Rangers had been a fashionable and logical pick to represent the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Finals.
He led Calgary to the 2004 Stanley Cup finals, but the Flames haven't been to the playoffs since 2009 and are currently 14th in the Western Conference.
He's received it, and here we are: The Devils are in the Stanley Cup Finals, and Martin Brodeur is their goaltender, now and probably for the foreseeable future.
But the best example of mass video collection for investigative purposes occurred in June 2011, when riots occurred after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup finals to the Boston Bruins.
By beating the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Saturday in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals, the New Jersey Devils have done what seemed so improbable just five days ago.
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Much of the same might be said of NHL dead-money leader Sergei Gonchar, who helped return the Pittsburgh Penguins to a measure of glory with a run to the Stanley Cup finals.
Among several major sporting events broadcast in the past year the college-football national championship, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, the Masters and the World Series only the NBA Finals had a five-second delay.
"Notice he said 'end of June, '" Mr. Blagman observed, meaning that the seventh and deciding game of the Stanley Cup Finals assuming that the Rangers will triumph in the earlier rounds is scheduled for June 28.
The Flyers, back in 2010, knocked out the Rangers for a playoff spot on the last day of the 2010 season, then went all the way to the Stanley Cup finals as a No. 7 seed.
Though the Rangers came within two victories of reaching the Stanley Cup finals last year, Sather made significant changes to the roster both before and during the 2013 regular season (which a lockout shortened to 48 games).
The Kings lost to the New Jersey Devils 3 to 1 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday, in a game that could have clinched L.A's improbable run to its first ever Stanley Cup Championship.
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He's tied with Los Angeles's Drew Doughty for the most points among defensemen, and his second-period goal Saturday was the game-winner in a Devils' 2-1 victory that extended the Stanley Cup Finals to a Game 6 on Monday.
But after beginning this year as favorites to reach the Stanley Cup finals and perhaps win the franchise's first championship since 1994, the Rangers finished sixth in the conference and lost to the Boston Bruins in five games in the second round.
"Maybe we had their number during the regular season, but this is different, " said Chicago forward Marian Hossa, who played for Detroit the last time the teams met in the playoffs four years ago when the Red Wings rolled toward the Stanley Cup finals.
Stanley Cup finals telecasts involving Detroit, Boston, Pittsburgh or Chicago are pretty much a lock to draw 4.5 million viewers, which is a big number for hockey in the U.S. "Within the hockey universe, fans have this strange ability to look at the matchups and find their reasons to watch, " said Jay Rosenstein, the former vice president of programming at CBS Sports.
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