Alberta_Rose

Does anyone know if any UK tv, Sky etc, will be showing the hockey finals, live or otherwise?

I am over here for ten days and need my hockey fix!

BTJ

ESPN America broadcast NHL I think. It's a free channel on Virgin XL, if you know anyone who has cable.

Alberta_Rose

Thanks

Steve_P

Yep.

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/titlesearch...20Ice%20Hockey

Novocastrian

If I was in the UK for the next 10 days, I'd thank my lucky stars that I wouldn't have to listen to all the ruddy nonsense about hockey.

Oink

You think you've got it bad you try being in Vancouver, that's all they bloody talk about all bloody day long. One doesn't want to be rude but I wish they'd **** off!

Novocastrian

Actually, one does want to be rude. Very rude indeed.

Auld Yin

If you two are pissed off about ice hockey then I'm delighted. It looks good on the BE's resident snobs.

Oink

Someone has to set the standards.

Alberta_Rose

Well I was a (field) hockey fan before ever came to Canada, but ice hockey knocks spots off sissy soccer (read football if you will), any day of the week!!!

If you'll don't like it then you know what to do.

Unfortunately parents are not subscribed to EPSN, (Electroplated silver nickel??) so maybe I have to make do with news reports anyway.

Novocastrian

I congratulate your parents on their sensibility.

What is annoying is not the sport itself (I never watch it), it's the endless drivel about it wherever you go.

Steve_P

Vancouver 1 Boston 0.

Raffi Torres scored for Vancouver with 18.5 second left in regular time.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...megadrop_story

Steve_P

I'm not an NHL fan I think I've made that clear over the years but I am a fan of hockey.

However this is likely the reason you see so much wherever you go.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Be...833/story.html

I didn't watch any of last nights game instead we watched a couple of quite good UK TV shows one Case Sensitive the other The Country House Revealed (Wentworth Woodhouse).

Alberta_Rose

Well OK, that is rather silly.

Alberta_Rose

It's not that Dad doesn't watch sport. He spends the day almost literally glued to Sky Sports, watching tennis, golf, cricket or rugby mostly. He has to sit so close because of his very poor eye-sight that all Mum gets to see is the back of his head, which doesn't make for very good conversation. Hence all sport is "That bloody Sport" as far as she is concerned!