I know it is easy to take shots at Versus (now, or soon to be, NBC Sports), and I have fired a few myself. I suppose we should be grateful that there is at least one place in the world of a thousand tv channels where we can get hockey, even if it is on the cow ropin' channel.

However, my question for Versus/NBC Sports is, why is NHL hockey limited to Monday and Tuesday nights? A check of the listings for Versus shows that tonight (Friday) they have scheduled "Elk Fever" at 8pm, followed by "The Buck Stops Here with Mike Hanback," "Gun It with Benny Spies," and "Whitetail Revolution." Saturday is college football - yeah, yeah, I get it - but Sunday night's lineup is "Bull Riding" and "Cycling (Paris Tours)."

Are you telling me that the opening weekend of the NHL season isn't a better draw than shows where guys talk about shooting deer?

Why is hockey restricted to the Monday/Tuesday ghetto on a channel that features shows like "Salty Dog Sport fishing" and "Babe Winkelman's Outdoor Secrets?"

because versus is, first and foremost, an outdoors channel

money talks...not much to do with hockey, but I'm glad Buffalo is leading the charge in voting with their remote controls.

money talks...not much to do with hockey, but I'm glad Buffalo is leading the charge in voting with their remote controls.

Started out as "Outdoor Life Channel" but hasn't been that for 5 years now. It became versus when they started to show more and more mainstream and extreme sports. Since they have exclusive rights to broadcast NHL games, they should be showing more games. Alas hockey is, and will always be, a second hand sport in this country. The type of sport most people put on only when there is nothing else on. That is why its relegated to Mondays and Tuesdays.

Let us not forget that ESPN showed the Little League World Series over the US vs. Mexico men's soccer game. Who the fuck cares to watch 10 year olds playing baseball in a meaningless game? I understand it's not meaningless to them or their families, but 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% of the world does not give a fuck.

Personally I hate Versus. Their announcers are awful and because I have Center Ice, when they show the game I have no choice but to listen to their shitty crew even though I pay money to see it on another channel. Then again i may just be cranky from sleeping on a mat on the floor for four days.

i love the little league world series. what i dont like about it is those stupid frosted flake commercials. they piss me off.

if versus could do one thing, it would be to bring back gary thorne. thats it.

Since most of the Sabres games are on Wednesdays, we'll have to get use to this announcing line up: Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play)...

One thing that bugs me about Doc Emrick is his use of the word "further" hundreds of times throughout a game (as in, "they move the puck further up the ice"), when what he really means is "farther" (farther is distance, further is figurative).