Ducks regular season dominance, improved playoffs hasn't translated into more national coverage; featured on just four broadcasts this season.
The jokes wrote themselves last season after Matt Beleskey scored in overtime of game five of the Western Conference Finals. The NHL was a game away from having an Anaheim-Tampa Bay Stanley Cup Final, and one could almost feel the puckering of the suits at NBC for what surely would undo a record setting run of ratings for hockey over the past several seasons thanks to revivals of the Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, and New York Rangers as legitimate Stanley Cup contenders.