NHL: The Puck Stops Here

Hockey lockout puts NBC Sports Network on thin ice

Four days into a lockout that threatens to put the kibosh on the entire 2012-13 National Hockey League season, league officials last week took the first step in making a $3.3 billion business disappear. Declaring that “the absence of a collective bargaining agreement” with the NHL Players’ Association left it no alternative, the league wiped out all 60 of the preseason games scheduled for September. Some players already have thrown in the towel, joining teams in Sweden and Russia.

Other than the fans, which during labor disputes are always left holding the wrong end of the hockey stick, no group stands to suffer more keenly from NHL deprivation than NBC Sports Network.

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