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[Kimi]

NHL Ice Hockey Live (Sport)
Time - 00:45 - 03:30 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
When - Thursday 6th October on five
NHL Ice Hockey Live and the return of the fastest team game in the world. All the action from North America as the world's best ice hockey players start a brand new season live on Five.
(Stereo)

Link. Search for NHL, I can't get a direct link. May I recomend some popcorn, iced coke, fomefingers and team caps .

[jojo983]

NHL Ice Hockey Live (Sport)
Time - 00:45 - 03:30 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
When - Thursday 6th October on five
NHL Ice Hockey Live and the return of the fastest team game in the world. All the action from North America as the world's best ice hockey players start a brand new season live on Five.
(Stereo)

Link. Search for NHL, I can't get a direct link. May I recomend some popcorn, iced coke, fomefingers and team caps .

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I'm really pleased but sadly I am even more sad. I am at uni now and I don't get Channel 5! I asked about freeview and they don't cover my stupid area at the moment. ARGHHHH

[Barmy Army]

Yeah we spotted that too We're really looking forward to having the NHL back on our tv screens.

Sorry you don't get channel 5 Joanne

[jigglypuff]

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I'm really pleased but sadly I am even more sad. I am at uni now and I don't get Channel 5! I asked about freeview and they don't cover my stupid area at the moment. ARGHHHH

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Freeview don't pick up channel 5, so I can't watch it when I'm at home (Got to love CSI!!!)

Are you in halls, cause most have a common room that might get it? Where are you at uni?

[Kimi]

I hope I can get it when I pack off to uni in about a year's time. If not I'll be getting tapes in the post from home .

[jojo983]

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I'm really pleased but sadly I am even more sad. I am at uni now and I don't get Channel 5! I asked about freeview and they don't cover my stupid area at the moment. ARGHHHH

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Freeview don't pick up channel 5, so I can't watch it when I'm at home (Got to love CSI!!!)

Are you in halls, cause most have a common room that might get it? Where are you at uni?

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Our uni doesn't have common rooms. I'm in halls again this year. I'm currently at the University of Luton.

I really need to teach my family how to use the VCR cause they seem to always ask me to tape stuff for them but of course when I need it I'm not at home.

[jojo983]

My friend emailed channel 5 a couple of days ago and got an email back today saying:

Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding NHL Ice Hockey.

Unfortunately, we will not be screening coverage of the forthcoming
season.

Following last season's lock-out the NHL organisation have recently
changed the way that they sell the rights in Europe, moving away from
selling to individual territories to a single European partner. This
regrettably means that we have been unable to acquire the rights to
screen the sport on terrestrial television in the UK.

It is a disappointing situation for us but unfortunately the matter is
out of our hands.

Thank you for your interest in Five.

Yours sincerely

VIEWER ADVISOR

Please note that the contact details for Five Customer Services are as
follows:

Telephone: 0845 7 05 05 05 / 020 7421 7270

Text telephone for use by deaf people: 0845 7 41 37 87

E-mail: customerservices@five.tv

Fax: 020 7836 1286




I so hope this is not true

[Barmy Army]

Eh? What the heck is going on. They are supposed to be showing a game next wednesday. Maybe you should post that on THF Joanne. There is a thread in the main forum where people are chatting about what game they think we're getting.

I'm confused

[jojo983]

Eh?    What the heck is going on.    They are supposed to be showing a game next wednesday.    Maybe you should post that on THF Joanne.  There is a thread in the main forum where people are chatting about what game they think we're getting.

I'm confused 

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will do that now. it is strange. its in the tv listings.

[jigglypuff]

I just went onto the channel 5 site and it still says there's a match on Wednesday

[Kimi]

What was the response over THF. I've looked on the Freeveiw thngy for the TV listing and there is no hockey on there.

[Tomato Assasin]

what is the match?

[MKLightning]

But, we do have this:

Elite League Hockey

However, I cannot justify, or afford, paying for NASN for this and however many NHL games they show per week.

However, I am hoping this will give British hockey a little bit of a boost.

[Barmy Army]

Sorry MKL but I'm not interested in the Elite league (cans, worms everywhere )

It looks like Channel Five have let us down, there isn't a game on this week and aren't planning on showing any this season.

[Tomato Assasin]

and i thought channel five were good for at least one thing. but i guess i was wrong

[MKLightning]

Sorry MKL but I'm not interested in the Elite league (cans, worms everywhere )

I don't really know anything about it either. I don't understand the cans, worms reference, though.

It looks like Channel Five have let us down, there isn't a game on this week and aren't planning on showing any this season. 

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It's a shame that ice hockey just doesn't get the coverage here it deserves. It is a wonderul sport. When I moved to America, I had never watched it before, but it didn't take me long to get hooked (no pun intended).

[Barmy Army]

The cans, worms, everywhere was a reference to the old saying of "opening a can of worms" for a situation that when discussed could get out of control(wriggling worms jumping out of the can) and cause a bit of bother. The way I typed it was the way a character in Friends had mentioned the expression. I used the expression because I don't really want to get into a discussion about the EIHL as I may rant and take this thread off topic. Anyhoo I won't be wasting any money on that dvd. Ignore my comment, it's not important.


The Channel 5 thing is a pile of poo Craig is now thinking about getting NASN which I'm not too sure about. I'm all for having hockey but I'm not sure about the money issue (since we're saving up) and we live in a rented flat so we'll have to check that out with the landlord. So that's something that my other half is going to check out.

[Kimi]

Bah, I hate this. I just got my self a box of tapes for the season too. I've got no chance of getting NASN. Anyone who gets it want to tape me a few games?

[MKLightning]

Can of Worms. Of course - duh on me.

Th channel 5 thing really is a shame. However, I do have a friend in California that said they would send me as many Duck games as they could on DVD. I am hoping they follow through on that.

[jojo983]

I got a friend who has NASN, I have asked her to tape the Oct. 30th game aganist Phoenix. Thats the first Ducks game they are showing. Hopefully she will record it on DVD so I will see what I can do with sending some copies to people.