I understand that the NBA is more popular than the NHL, but do we really need to see highlights of preseason NBA games instead of regular season NHL games? It's infuriating that one of the four major sports gets almost no coverage (barring the random Barry Melrose segments where he breaks down random games played by the Penguins, the only team that ESPN decided people should follow). I really don't get it. I am not sure if people at ESPN realize what an influence they have on their viewers. Perhaps people are only talking about LeBron James so much because they see him being talked about on ESPN so frequently. I don't think people were demanding to see a Miami Heat Index, much like they probably didn't care about the Tebow Tracker, which hasn't seen an update in ages. There's a good chance I'm wrong in all of this, and that people were demanding more LeBron coverage. But ESPN still has a choice, and I would love to see them attempt to revive the NHL's popularity instead of embracing coverage of truly meaningless NBA games.
If only ESPN aired NHL games like they did in the past. Then they'd have more incentive to popularize the sport.
