I will place a good bet right now there will be no coverage of the NHL draft for the new expansion teams after the Stanley Cup finals in the Reporter-News. Hockey news is buried on the back page. I wonder how much coverage the NBA will get. Television news and the availability of hockey on cable is even worse. I actually caught a 15-second spot on one local station tonight about the playoffs, after they started on Wednesday night.
Hockey scores are never a part of the local sports reports.
I have given up on them and have turned to Fox Sports and ESPN at 10 p.m. to catch the scores. To make matters worse ESPN2 is not available from our local cable subscriber where I live. I would rather have ESPN2 over HBO, and I would still pay the same high rate. I'd get a dish, but that is not economically feasible right now. Hockey fans are intensely loyal to the sport and support it well wherever they live.