This year's Battle of Comm. Ave is going to be a buzzkill. This was preventable.
Have you ever heard of the American Sports Network? Unless you watch a lot of low to mid-major college basketball, chances are that you have not. And yet it's because of the American Sports Network that tonight's marquee clash between Boston College and Boston University will face off at 6 PM - kowtowing to the request of a fake TV channel nobody will be watching over what would be best for the actual paying fans in attendance.
This 6 PM start only serves to highlight what a backwards step it was for Hockey East to sign a television deal with the American Sports Network, which somehow has been a huge step back in terms of production quality from the in house NESN broadcasts of yesteryear.