NBC's Contingency Plan for today's game

[Cross Traffic]

NHL.com - 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs

NEW YORK - The contingency plan for Saturday's 1:30 p.m. ET DAL@DET NBC broadcast is as follows:

If the game goes into overtime, the local Dallas and Detroit NBC affiliates will stay with the game until it's conclusion

In markets outside Dallas and Detroit, the game will shift from NBC to VERSUS after completion of the 1st OT

There are some markets that may pre-empt the game but at this time we don't know the alternative channel plans.

[Bogey Man]

NBC is scheduled to show the Preakness Stakes horse racing event after the Detroit/Dallas game.

It will go on as scheduled as Detroit will finish off Dallas decisively today.

[VegasHockey]

Reruns of Deal or No Deal are pretty important ya know.

[mudfisher]

Somehow NBC will mess it up...

[dmpaquet]

Originally Posted by mudfisher

Somehow NBC will mess it up...

Are we still blaming NBC? They're doing the only rational thing. The NHL knows the Preakness is happening today, they know NBC is going to carry it. They know that horse racing will draw a bigger audience. They remember what happened last year.

And yet they still schedule the game for the afternoon, knowing full well the possibility of an overtime game.

It's not NBC messing up.

[spjon25]

Can't we shoot the horses and send them to the glue factory to make some nice Testers Modeling glue, breath mints, and gelatin.

[gescom]

Originally Posted by dmpaquet

Are we still blaming NBC? They're doing the only rational thing. The NHL knows the Preakness is happening today, they know NBC is going to carry it. They know that horse racing will draw a bigger audience. They remember what happened last year.

And yet they still schedule the game for the afternoon, knowing full well the possibility of an overtime game.

It's not NBC messing up.

they actually moved the game time up this year in order to avoid what happened last season.

[Lososaurus]

Preakness can go to hell, no rant, no complaining, just **** those guys.