NBC Sports released their television schedule for the 2017-18 NHL season on Monday morning, and if you’re like most people you probably skipped over the platitudes at the beginning (“the most diverse broadcast schedule in history!”) and just did a ctrl-F for “Carolina.”
And then the document keeps scrolling...
...and scrolling...
...and scrolling...
...until it lands on the fourth-from-last game on the schedule.
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Yep. That’s it. That’s the extent of the Hurricanes’ appearances on national television, for the third straight season. One game.
And it’s against the Flyers which, as one of our regular commenters pointed out on Twitter, likely means a national distribution of a local broadcast.