Remember before the hockey season started, when it appeared for the longest time that Golden Knights games wouldn’t be available to Cox Cable subscribers?
When cynics said the only people watching the NHL expansion team play on TV would be waiting to pick up a pizza at one of those MacKenzie River parlors that team patriarch Bill Foley owns up in Montana?
When not even ESPN 8, “The Ocho,” or ESPN 9, “The Nueve” seemed interested?
Well, that was 87 games ago.
Game 88 of Miracle on Ice Redux — a.k.a. Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals pitting the San Jose Sharks against the Golden Overachievers of Las Vegas — was televised live and in prime time to a national NBC audience.