Freddie P's Blog

February 26, 2007 @ 07:14

Tomorrow should be a tough day for TSN and Sportsnet. Both sports networks have blown another load over the NHL trading deadline but this time it's backfired.

Before the NHL lockout trade deadlines were interesting in the NHL because teams could spend as much money as they wanted. I think one year there was something like 40 transactions on trade deadline day.

Now it's different story. With the salary cap there's only so much money you can spend and a lot of things have to fall into place before you can pull the trigger. Not only that, but there's been several trades in the past week or so that have taken a lot of the suspense out of tomorrow.

However both networks plan to start their trade deadline coverage at 10am and Sportsnet promises eight hours of coverage till six pm. Talk about freakin' over-kill.