# NHL Information blackout

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-information-blackout/91935>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 7, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-information-blackout/91935 "2001-11-07T03:16:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-information-blackout/91935/1 "2001-11-07T03:16:20Z")

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OK for some reason the past couple days the NHL has been doing a piss-poor job of getting score updates out. It’s now just after 10 pm and ESPN’s bottom line has the score of the Pittsburgh/Carolina as a 2-2 tie. Their website and yahoo sports has it as 2-0 in the 2nd. The league’s website itself has NO score updates. I’ve noticed this a couple times in the past few days. What’s the deal?

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**Author:** ![Chaosopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Chaosopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chaosopher)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-information-blackout/91935/2 "2001-11-07T12:47:55Z")

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I’ve noticed that [http://www.nhl.com](http://www.nhl.com) doesn’t cover the NHL as well as [http://www.espn.com/nhl](http://www.espn.com/nhl) and [http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl](http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl) both of which I hit daily at least.

The ‘official’ site seems more like an NHL commercial than a news source. But that’s just my 0,02 Euro.