Sun Media's Rob Brodie has blogged it and now broken it: NBC wants games 2 and 3 of the Pittsburgh Penguins' first-round series in afternoon next weekend. That means the Senators, who are almost a sure thing to play Sidney Crosby, et al., will likely be playing back-to-backs with travel in between — Sat., April 14 at home and Sun., April 15 in Pittsburgh, or vice-versa if the Penguins wrest away home-ice advantage.
You can hear the bellyaching from Senators fans already about the possible back-to-backs, but take it up with the management who booked Scotiabank Place for a concert on the 13th. For once, the NHL and U.S. TV interests are relatively blameless.
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About your comment about Scotiabank Place booking a concert - that has nothing to do with the scheduling. Note that Pittsburgh also has a concert booked in Saturday night. Hey, I bet if you checked any NHL arena - there are other shows booked in between April-June.
If Stuntman Stu or one of the Sens sycophants from The Team is going to leave comments here, they should at least have the dignity to put their name to it. :)
Without that concert the series could go Wednesday-Friday in Ottawa, Sunday-Tuesday in Pittsburgh (which as you point out, has Christina Aguilera in for a 7:30 show on the Saturday.)
Read Brodie's blog...he's got new stuff on this. The Sens and Pens dodged a bullet since the Aguilera concert really would have thrown a wrench into everything.
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