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From: willis@oracle.SCG.HAC.COM (Stan Willis)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Kings stats through 12.13
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:30:53 GMT
Reply-To: willis@empire.dnet.hac.com (Stan Willis)
Organization: none


         1992-93 Los Angeles Kings Roster

Through December 13, 1992

 #  Age	Player          Pos GP  MIN  GA  GAA  Record	Status
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
35  24	Robb Stauber	 G  10  605  31 3.07  (9-0-1)
32  31	Kelly Hrudey	 G  21 1268  77 3.64 (11-8-2)
        Team Totals	    31 1878 110 3.51 (20-8-3)

 #  Age Player          Pos  GP   G   A  PTS   PM	Status
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17  32	Jari Kurri	C/RW 31  17  34   51   12
20  26	Luc Robitaille   LW  31  24  21   45   30
77  31	Paul Coffey	 D   31   6  30   36   26
11  28	Mike Donnelly	 LW  31  14  20   34   20
21  28	Tony Granato     LW  28  13  20   33   61
 7  28	Tomas Sandstrom  RW  21  12  19   31   32  1-2 more weeks, broken arm
23  28	Corey Millen	 C   27  18  11   29   40
 4  22	Rob Blake	 D   31   4  17   21   66
33  29	Marty McSorley   RW  31   8  10   18  186
 2  20	Alexei Zhitnik	 D   31   4  14   18   36
27  23	Jim Hiller	 RW  27   6   6   12   48  Sent to Phoenix - 12/16
22  33	Charlie Huddy	 D   31   1  10   11   26
29  24  Lonnie Loach     LW  21   4   3    7    6  Out 1-2 weeks, broken thumb
15  32	Pat Conacher	C/LW 28   4   2    6    4
25  20	Darryl Sydor	 D   29   2   4    6   32  
18  37	Dave Taylor      RW  16   1   4    5   16  DD, concussion
13  21	Robert Lang	 C   10   0   5    5    2  Sent to Phoenix - 11/16
10  25	Warren Rychel    LW  26   3   1    4  135  DD, ankle contusion
37  28	Bob Kudelski	 RW  13   1   3    4    8  On the trading block
44  23	John McIntyre	 C   23   1   3    4   37
32  31  Kelly Hrudey     G   21   0   2    2    0
28  19  Guy Leveque      C    4   1   0    1    2  Recalled from Phoenix - 12/11
 9  31  Sean Whyte       RW   7   0   1    1    6  Recalled from Phoenix - 11/21
 6      Jeff Chychrun    D    9   0   1    1   23
 3  21  Brent Thompson   D   12   0   1    1   45
24  25  Frank Breault    RW   0   0   0    0    0  Recalled from Phoenix - 12/14
99  31	Wayne Gretzky	 C    0   0   0    0    0  Out indefinite, back

Notes:
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DD = Day-to-day

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From: maverick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Andrew Tuttle)
Subject: Re: Habs Schedule
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:18:15 GMT

In <14DEC199210575252@reg.triumf.ca> lange@reg.triumf.ca (FLOUNDERING IN A QUANTUM SEA...) writes:

>In article <Bz22Fx.HAE@news.ucs.mun.ca>, rhillier@random.ucs.mun.ca (Rex Hillier) writes...
>> Over the past few seasons the Habs always seem to have 1,2, or 3 games played
>> more than every other team.  I beleive this is intentional to keep them near
>> the top of the league and give them the image of one of the leagues better
>> teams.  We all know this is not so, they are just a middle-of-the-pack team.
>> Any comments!!

I've noticed this annoying trend too, but being a Habs fan I get sick of 
hearing "...but the Bruins have three games in hand...". Remember, the teams
playing catch-up still have to win games that Monteal has _already_ won.

-Maverick


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From: farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Droopy)
Subject: Re: Boston Massacre!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:49:08 GMT

gen5061@husky1.stmarys.ca writes:

>Just a little note to Tom who obviously does not like Boston/Canadien fans
>bashing each other.  Please do not read any further!  Otherwise shutup,
>because this is an appropriate place for those kind of discussions.  Who
>gave you permission to decide what us hockey fans discuss on rec.sport.hockey?

>	There is only one thing sweeter then beating the Boston Bruins, to
>a Canadiens fan, and that is slaughtering the Boston Bruins!  Well, I guess
>winning the Stanley Cup has a nice appeal.  I hope other Montreal fans had
>half as much satisfaction watching the Boston Massacre as I did.

Guess you guys have been horribly disappointed in 4 of the last
5 playoffs! Hahahaahahahahahahaha!
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:12:20 -0500 
From: Anna Matyas <am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: trade rumor


Food for thought.  Folks were talking about this rumor last night:

Jaromir Jagr and unnamed player(s) for Brett Hull.

Hmmm...Hull isn't happy in St Louis.  Jagr has said he'll go anywhere
for the money (but he also wants sunshine and pretty girls).  Would
Hull be happy on the second (or third?!) line?

Mom.
From: kim@guppy.uucp (Isaac Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: IHL: Atlanta Knights and Manon
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:12:39 GMT
Organization: UC San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: guppy.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Dec15.084003.24397@hubcap.clemson.edu> jwodzia@dino.UUCP (john wodziak) writes:

>Yes Manon finally played during the regular season. 
>
>She played a total of 5:49 and faced 4+ shots. Allowed 1+ goal and looked 
>scared. Well about as scared as any of us would have looked as a 20 year old
>with names like Gretzky, Ken Hodge (Jr, Not the Bruins Great), 
>and Andrew Trefilov (who has a 10 month 
>old Olympic Gold Medal for CIS around is neck) staring us in the face.

Well Brent Gretzky and Ken Hodge Jr. are on her team, so hopefully
she wouldn't be scared of them (unless they didn't backcheck).
Trefilov is Salt Lake's goalie, so I doubt there would be a
reason to be scared of him.

She should be scared of the big Salt Lake boys like Paul Krause and 
Todd Harkins, who like to go to the net and crash the crease. 

I'm sure she was just nervous, because she knew that much of the
hockey world would see her either live on satelite or most likely
on the many sports highlight shows (Sportscenter or CNN Sports).
I saw her practice in San Diego a few weeks ago and she looked 
like she could hold her own.  I wish Manon all the best luck in
the future. 

BTW, why did they pull her after only 5 minutes?  She only let in
one goal (on a poor clearing pass).  Maybe Mike Keenan was secretly
hired by Altanta and was put in charge of goaltender changes.

>
>In Hockey Hell...............jwodzia@eng.clemson.edu............John R. Wodziak
>The #%&^*$%&$ Rangers Suck!!||MS MechEng||#include<disclamer.h>
>1940 >> /dev/null           ||Clemson U ||"For the want of one condom one man's
>Bruins for Lord Stanley, 93 ||NumMethods|| whole life was ruined" - Al Bundy

Isaac (kim@bull.ucsd.edu)

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Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:04:22 -0500 
From: Anna Matyas <am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: trade rumor



>In article <1992Dec16.181801.7810@bmerh85.bnr.ca> wizz@bnr.ca (Boris
Volk) writ
>es:
>>
>> As for Hull being on the third line, that equally laughable. The Pens
do have
>>2 franchise players in Lemieux and Stevens, however after that what do
they ha
>ve.
>>
>>   Francis - solid 2nd line center - his best days were in Hartford
>>   Tochett - almost a franchise player
>>   Mullen - nobody wanted this free agent - 20 goal man on another team
>>   McEachern (sp) - good prospect - who knows
>>   Errey - get real

Francis' best days were in Hartford???  Get real.  Perhaps you have the
myopic viewpoint that forwards are supposed to do nothing but rack up
points.

Mom.
From: Thomas.Sullivan@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Anaheim and Miami. WHY?!!
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:16:33 GMT
	<Bz3MzJ.73D@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I guess what I'm surprised about is that there is no Texas team.  I know
Houston has been wanting a team for a while, and now that the league is
trying to expand into new areas, it really surprises me that they'd pick 
the 2 cities that they did.  I know it is more based on the fact that Disney
and Blockbuster are the new team owners and will have no cash-flow 
problem, but it just seems like the locations are wrong.  

--Tom
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From: jpc@philabs.philips.com (John P. Curcio;6442;3.55;)
Subject: Re: New Mike Lange-isms
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:11:30 GMT

In article <4f=sEEq00WBNI3HX0U@andrew.cmu.edu> am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anna Matyas) writes:

>I know a lot of you are Mike Lange fans so I thought I'd let you know
>about some of his new stuff.

Some of us think he's an idiot, but that's beside the point...

>He has a new saying after a Penguin goal:  "How much fried chicken can
>you eat?"

Seems kinda backwards to me-- given the new Penguins logo, he should
say that when somebody burns Barrasso for a goal...

-JPC

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From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: NHL SCORING LEADERS THRU 12/13/92
Keywords: NHL SCORING LEADERS THRU 12/13/92
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:10:44 GMT

tracyj@hall103.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Allan Tracy) writes:

>--------------------------------------------------------------------- Award
>SCORING               TEAM    GAMES  GOALS  ASSISTS  POINTS  +/-  PIM Predict.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Mario Lemieux         Pitt     31     33      49       82     25   20 Hart, Art
>Pat LaFontaine        Buff     31     22      33       55      2   33
>Jari Kurri            L.A.     31     17      34       51     22   12
>Adam Oates            Bost     29     17      33       50      9   10
>Joe Sakic             Que      32     22      26       48     -5   18
>Steve Yzerman         Det      32     24      23       47      8   13
>Mats Sundin           Que      32     22      25       47      7   30
>Pierre Turgeon        NYI      30     17      30       47     -3   12
>Kevin Stevens         Pitt     23     22      24       45      4   36
>Mark Recchi           Phil     28     17      29       46     -1   24
>Mark Messier          NYR      30     15      31       46     -6   26
>Luc Robataille        L.A.     31     24      21       45     13   30
>Dave Anderychuk       Buff     31     23      22       45     -2   36
>Doug Gilmour          Tor      29     10      33       43      3   36
>Craig Janney          St.L     30      7      36       43     -7    2 Lady Bing
>Joe Juneau            Bost     29     11      31       42     13   17 Calder
>Rick Tocchet          Pitt     29     20      22       42      6   86
>Gary Roberts          Calg     31     18      24       42     17  101
>Brian Bradley         T.B.     32     23      18       41     -1   32
>Brett Hull            St.L     30     16      25       41    -22   25
>Stephan Lebeau        Mont     32     16      25       41     15   14
>Kirk Muller           Mont     31      9      32       41      7   34  
>Dale Hawerchuck       Buf      31      6      35       41     -2   10

You meant NHL Points Leaders right?

You left out a bunch of the top scorers and left in a bunch of great passers.

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From: yang@acs.ucalgary.ca (David Yang)
Subject: Re: Flames Stuff
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 21:19:49 GMT
Organization: University of Calgary
Followup-To: rec.sport.hockey

In article <yang-171292134335@comm-mac-ii.acs.ucalgary.ca>,
yang@acs.ucalgary.ca (David Yang) wrote:

<Badly formatted news deleted>

Sorry about the poor posting. Can't figure out line wrapping on my machine.
Anyways, another try.


Since Alan is gone till the new year, I thought I would post some Flames 
news during past week.

Al MacInnis signed a new contract. I guess his old contract had a bonus if
he won the Norris Trophy. He came close in the first year of his contract,
coming second to Chelios I believe, and would have been paid an extra 150K
for the remaining years of the contract. So Doug Risebrough in an unusual
show of good faith has decided to give Al an extra $100K for each year of
his
contract for a total of $400K. 

Mike Vernon has recorded two straight shutouts and hasn't been scored upon
in over a 150 minutes of play. He hasn't given up a even strength goal in
over
200 minutes of play. Its a great time for Vernon to get hot with his
arbitration hearing set to commence sometime in the new year. Risebrough
could have had Vernon for approx. 1mil last year, but my bet is, he'll end
up paying Vernon closer to 1.5mil this year.

Gary Leeman has been benched again. His lackluster play in Toronto and
Ottawa just may have sealed his fate with the Flames. Latest rumor from
Calgary has Chicago sending Noonan and Larmer to Edmonton for Joe Murphy
and Dave Maley and then Chicago would send Maley to the Flames for Leeman.
Has anyone from Chicago or Edmonton hear anything about this?

Gary Roberts will undergo a CATscan to determine whether or not his
cheekbone is fractured or not. He was hit in the face on Saturday against
Ottawa when a clearing shot by Lindbergh? hit him on the right side of his
face. 

Since MacInnis has been out, the Flames once decent/potent powerplay has
been hovering around the 10% mark. OUCH!
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From: mmilitzo@scott.skidmore.edu (matthew militzok)
Subject: Whalers Convincingly Beat Caps 6-3
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:13:29 GMT


Wednesday, Dec 16
     
             1   2   3
CAPITALS     0   0   3   3 FINAL
WHALERS      3   2   1   6 
Hartford built a 5-0 lead after two periods and held on to
beat the Washington Capitals, 6-3, in the front end of a
home-and-home set. The teams meet in Washington Friday.
Five different Whalers scored on the Capital's Don Beaupre
before he was replaced by Jim Hrivnak at 9:38 of the second
period. The loss snapped the Capitals seven-game winning
streak. Geoff Sanderson, Terry Yake and Chris Govedaris
scored for the Whalers in the first period, and Patrick
Poulin and Doug Houda scored in the second.  Terry Yake
added the empty netter for his second of the night.
Sean Burke made 24 saves for the Whalers.  The Whalers
move within 4 wins of the 4th place Sabres.

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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: Stan Fischler, 12/12
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:49:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.064110.2590@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>
>* Bernie Nicholls wants to be traded back to the Patrick Division.
>

Does New Jersey want him?

>
>* The expansion cash cut will be: L.A., $25 Million; Ottawa and
>Tampa Bay, $0, and all others $3.4 Million.
>

What this means is that Ottawa and Tampa failed to live up to the
financial terms of the original expansion, and that the other owners
must have agreed to relax the conditions of their deals, and hence
Ottawa and Tampa, as a result probably forfeited their share.

Hamilton will never get the other NHL owners to pay Toronto and Buffalo
off, like Disney got the owners to pay McNall off for them.

Gerald
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From: kcapie@camelot.bradley.edu (Kevin Capie)
Subject: Re: FLYERS notes 12/12
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: 12 Dec 92 21:48:24 GMT


What is the deal with Lindros?  He was originally only to be out until the      Quebec game missing the games against Ottawa and Boston at the very most.  Is   the injury more severe than first thought?
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From: mgleason@cse.unl.edu (Mike Gleason)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Games on ESPN, 2nd half
Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:41:45 GMT
Organization: NCEMRSoft
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu
Keywords: ESPN, televised games

dtokarew@tokafew.Doc.Provo.Novell.COM (Deb Tokarewich) writes:

|Anyone know what the rest of ESPN's NHL schedule is, and can post it? (If  
|it's already been posted while I was out of town, sorry...I caught up on  
|my net reading when I returned, but may have missed it).

Ditto.  It shouldn't take much effort to post it, what could it be 5-6
games tops? :-(
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:33:46 -0500 
From: Anna Matyas <am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Mario & candy bars? 


>And details were released on the "Mario Bar".  The candy bar is basically a
>version of Clark's Bun candy bar. (Peanuts, caramel, milk chocolate).  The 
>candy bar will be distributed regionally at first. but is expected to be
>distributed across the US and Canada by June of 1993.

Doesn't Mario -- or didn't he at one time -- endorse Snickers solely in
Canada?  Just curious.  It's been a few years since I've been to Canada
and I've never seen an ad.

Mom.



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From: tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen)
Subject: Re: SM-LIIGA NEWS, December 15, 1992
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:42:40 GMT

In <1992Dec15.082748.2052@tac.fi> tiot_kk@tac.fi (Kimmo Kauranen) writes:

>Petri Skriko (Ex-San Jose Sharks, etc) made a contract with Kiekko-Espoo
>from Espoo, Finland. The contract will only last this season. Skriko told
>that he is not ending his professional career and he has plans to return
>into NHL.

In another interview, he tells that his NHL career is ower and he
feels cheated, because he was in the early going among the top scorers
of teh Sharks and is still about 5th, even though he has been away with
an injury. He has an opiton year built in his contract with Kiekko-Espoo,
and he hopes to attract the attention of the coach of the Finnish national
team Pentti Matikainen.

- Lauri Tarkkonen

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From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Subject: NHL Swedes: Stats Dec. 17
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:59:56 GMT


        #=========================================================#
        | Scoring stats for the Swedish NHL players as of Dec. 17 |
        #=========================================================#

RL Rk Name             Team J# Ps Ht   Wt  Born      G  A  Pts  PW  Comment
-- -- ---------------- ---- -- -- ---  --- --------  -- -- ---  --  -------
    1 Mats Sundin       QUE 13 RW 6-2  189  2/13/71  23 28  51   6
    2 Tomas Sandstrom   LAK  7 LW 6-2  207  9/ 4/64  12 19  31   -  Injured
    3 Ulf Dahlen        MIN 22 RW 6-2  195  1/12/67  10 16  26   2
    4 Calle Johansson   WAS  6 D  5-11 205  2/14/67   6 18  24   2
 6  5 Fredrik Olausson  WIN  4 D  6-2  200 10/ 5/66   6 18  24   3
 5  6 Johan Garpenlov   SJS 10 LW 5-11 185  3/21/68   6 16  22   1
    7 Nicklas Lidstrom  DET  5 D  6-2  180  4/28/70   1 16  17   0
 9  8 Tommy Sjodin      MIN 33 D  5-11 190  8/13/65   5 11  16   2
 8  9 Thomas Steen      WIN 25 C  5-10 195  6/ 8/60   5 11  16   1
   10 Ulf Samuelsson    PIT  5 D  6-1  195  3/26/64   2 12  14   0
   11 Mikael Andersson  TBL 34 LW 5-11 185  5/10/66   5  8  13   2
   12 Roger Johansson   CAL 34 D  6-1  185  4/ 7/67   2  7   9   0
14 13 Michael Nylander  HFD 36 LW 5-11 176 10/ 3/72   1  7   8   2
13 14 Jan Erixon        NYR 20 LW 6-0  196  7/ 8/62   3  4   7   0  Injured
18 15 Per-Erik Eklund   PHI  9 LW 5-10 175  3/22/63   1  4   5   3
15 16 Tommy Albelin     NJD  6 D  6-1  190  5/21/64   1  2   3   0
      Kjell Samuelsson  PIT 23 D  6-6  235 10/18/58   1  2   3   0  Injured
17 18 Peter Andersson   NYR 25 D  6-0  187  8/29/65   0  3   3   0  Binghamton
   19 Thomas Forslund   CAL 27 LW 6-0  185 11/24/68   0  1   1   0  Salt Lake
   20 Patrik Carnback   MON 20 LW 6-0  189  2/ 1/68   0  0   0   0
   21 Patrik Kjellberg  MON 27 LW 6-2  196  6/17/69   0  0   0   0  Fredericton
   22 Per Djoos         NYR 44 D  5-11 176  5/11/68   -  -   -      Binghamton

                                                     GP  GAA
                                                     --  ---
      Tommy Soderstrom  PHI 30 G  5-9  163  7/17/69   0             Hershey

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RL=Rank Last week, Rk=Rank, J#=Jersey Number, Ps=Position
G=Goals, A=Assists, Pts=Points, PW=Points scored since last Week
GP=Games Played, GAA=Goals Against Average

Staffan
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From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Re: NHL on ... Disney Channel???
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: The Bates Motel
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:49:51 GMT

green@ie.utoronto.ca (Marc Green) writes:
>
>Then obviously you have very little sense. I know that it's hard to
>believe, but the NHL has made a masterful move. Disney has it's own
>cable channel that goes into virtually every cable connected household
>in America. This means everybody is going to get hockey on TV. Then
>there are the promotional opportunities through their Disney stores
>and theme parks.

Actually, local rights for other teams might interfere with this but
you've got me going ... the Disney Channel is a pay station in most
areas just like SCA (I know there are exceptions; but we just had a
free preview and I managed to tape "The Rocketeer" for later viewing),
BUT the bulk of their family programming ends at 10 PM EST which means
that west coast games can be shown in place of their "Disney at Night"
line (much of it being music programming for boomers after they put
the kids to bed ... good live concert stuff, though, like James Taylor
around Cape Cod/Martha's Vineyard and a Kenny Loggins concert in the
Grand Canyon).  The Canadian Family Channel on basic/extended basic up
north gets programs from Disney (which in turn gets programs from CBC
like "Avonlea", "The Racoons" and "Danger Bay) but it is a different
entity.

However, that the Disney Channel is 10-20 times more accessible than
SportsChannel may or may not be useful in the future ... I could see
that if the ESPN deal bombs (note to PPV Mark ... what are the latest
numbers?) and they're looking for a new outlet, Disney's got it ...
They could also show games on tape-delay overnight without regard to
local blackouts (i.e., pick the best game of the night) ... I for one
would not mind having to buy two months of Disney for the playoffs
since there's stuff on it that I can tape for later viewing outside
of the games ... couldn't say that for SCNY/SCA, that's for sure.

gld
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