NO UK NHL BLACKOUT ON NHL GAME CENTRE

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   Name: Robert Williams on Jan 19, 2013

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   Name: Scott Barney on Jan 19, 2013

   Comments: Totally Agree!!

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   Name: Daniel Carrington on Jan 19, 2013

   Comments: This is absolutely ridiculous and needs to be stopped!! I dont know what i am supposed to do if i want to watch the Devils live only to find it is blacked out and not even being shown on premier sports until the next day as a re-run! Very unhappy NHL well done for screwing us AGAIN!!

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   Name: Ieuan Jenkins on Jan 19, 2013

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   Name: Raymond on Jan 19, 2013

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   Name: Joe Callaghan on Jan 19, 2013

   Comments: Time differences and Premier Sports being a specialist channel on a subscription satellite package makes NHL not available to everyone. I can't get the channel even if I wanted it, so GCL is my only option, yet this specialist channel has all the rights to the games. It seems like my only option is to forget the NHL, and watch AHL or some European hockey. Great!

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   Name: Tempus Fugit on Jan 19, 2013

   Comments: Please let all games be shown in Britain with no blackouts. That would be a great way to keep fans interested in nhl regularly.

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   Name: Rick Kerfoot on Jan 19, 2013

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   Name: Anonymous Facebook user on Jan 19, 2013

   Comments: I agree completely with this. All games should be available. I'm a student and cant get Premier Sports. 15 games a week are taken from me because of them. I'm sad about this.

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    Name: MottledPear on Jan 19, 2013

    Comments: The NHL Game Center product for the UK is now basically worthless. This opening weekend, all games being shown on Premier Sports, whether live or tape delayed are blacked out on Game Center in the UK and when I spoke to customer service they could not tell me what the black out policy was for the UK nor could they confirm that tape delayed games would not be blacked out. How can you buy something where you have no idea what you will be shown? I called customer service and was told by the person I spoke to that we " would still have access to archived material "...is he and NHL serious that that is what people want primarily out of Game Center.

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    Name: Peter Hicks on Jan 19, 2013

    Comments: This is ridiculous. Sort it out NHL!

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    Name: Simon Greaves on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: I totally agree, I missed the first penguins game, would of liked to see them win Live with NHL gcl!

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    Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: There's no point me having GCL if I can't access the games and I can't watch it via Premier Sports. Sort it out NHL, as if this season hasn't been enough of a shambles as it is!

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    Name: Stephen Mckeown on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: I agree with what everyone has said. I've done the right thing and paid the nhl direct for streaming once again but find out i've been screwed over and couldnt watch the pens game (legally) tonight. SO next year i'll just ditch gcl completely and watch hooky streams rather than throw money down the drain. Premier sports have a 4 year contract by the way.

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    Name: Anonymous Facebook user on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: Jaro P. on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: UK broadcasting is effecting us Irish fans the same, disgraceful after I was told from NHL reps said I wouldn't be blacked out till 2/3 days ago

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    Name: Patrick Martz on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: Jakub Nowak on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: Mick Moss on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: Giving a tinpot channel like Premier Sports a blackout clause in its licence is plain wrong. Proper NHL fans in the UK subscribe to your own GCL product for Live Hockey, to make sure they can see games they what when they want. Are you aware that Premier Sports isn't even a national broadcaster? It is only even available to purchase by SKY customers, and only 17% of households in the UK even have this service? What about the other 83% of us that use Cable or terrestrial, who PS do not/will not cater for?

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    Name: Matthew on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: This blackout has made my subscription worthless, as any games that are on pre-midnight in the UK are unavailable. The NHL should be ashamed.

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    Name: Simon Minty on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: I get some games but the whole opening day was a disgrace. no network and then black

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    Name: Sebastian Egerton-Read on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: A fairly indefensible and ridiculous decision. This isn't even a channel that is easily accessible to sky users, sky is very expensive and there just isn't an equal sign to be drawn between American TV and British TV

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    Name: Christian on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: Andy Williams on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: Truly disgraceful move by the NHL. Especially when, in the UK, there is national coverage of the late playoffs apart from the crappy channel they've sold us out to!

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    Name: James Freedman on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: David Anderson on Jan 20, 2013

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    Name: John-Paul Jarvis on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: NHL - you really hurt the development of your sport with the deal you did with Premier Sports last season. With ESPNA we had a great service; with PS the service was like going back 10 years to the awful debacle we had with Setanta. After seeing the shambles on offer with PS last season I cancelled my subscription (an adventure in itself, involving my bank writing to PS) and bought your GCL package. Far superior coverage, and thanks to being in the UK no blackouts. Yet now you have dealt us yet another blow by bowing to pressure from this abysmal channel in an obvious ploy to force us NHL fans into subscribing with them. We are not local to the games - we can't choose to buy a ticket to go watch the game at the arena. Our only option is PS or GCL. Hell, for people on Virgin they don't even have PS, so for them they are stuck with GCL, and that means no live playoffs at all. This is a very poor decision, and disgusting treatment of your fans in the UK after the lockout debacle. As they said at the time: "billionaires fighting with millionaires while the fans are forgotten". Never a truer word spoken.

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    Name: Christopher Preece on Jan 20, 2013

    Comments: I do feel misled as I signed up to NHL Gamecenter with the impression that all games would be available and to know that hardly any of the playoffs will be available is galling. I grudgingly decided to subscribe to Premier Sports as well even though they never bother showing any Ottawa games. I'm lucky to have Sky and not Virgin otherwise I'd be in a worse position. Unreasonable.

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    Name: Johnathan Grimes on Jan 21, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Jan 21, 2013

    Comments: Having paid money to subscribe to gamecenter why should I have to suffer blackouts in the UK. Rest assured I and many others will not be renewing our Gamecenter subscription in future years.

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    Name: Shaun Stroud on Jan 21, 2013

    Comments: Premier Sports Ruining Hockey in the UK! This can't be allowed, poor station offering poor coverage, nobody wanted you PS go away give us GameCenter Live back!!!

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    Name: Kieran Byrne on Jan 21, 2013

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    Name: Tomi Lahdesmaki on Jan 21, 2013

    Comments: Please remove these horrible blackouts! I would understand it if they were blacked out but we had another option, to watch games easily on another service that was as good as Game Center, but we dont. Premier Sports is very obscure and hard to get on TV, online they are one of the worst streaming services I have ever come across. Horrible site, bad quality, no replays or game controls. Not to mention Premier Sports does not show full Hockey Night in Canada service. REMOVE THESE BLACKOUTS!!!

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    Name: Brennan Wozencroft on Jan 21, 2013

    Comments: The reason I purchased NHL Game Center is to be able to have access to ALL NHL games since I am living abroad. I live in a building that does not have Sky, which does not allow me to purchase the Premier Sports. The quality of Premier Sports online is crap and unacceptable quality to pay for. This blackout sucks!

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    Name: Mark W on Jan 21, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Jan 21, 2013

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    Name: Daniel Watkins on Jan 21, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Jan 21, 2013

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    Name: Thomas McIntosh on Jan 21, 2013

    Comments: Absolutely farcical. The GCL black out would be more understandable if; a) Premier Sports was available on all platforms, b) Only applied to live games not delayed, C) Greater assurance that Premier Sports was a quality product, from experience it streams in very low definition and invests in no pregame/in game analysis. The 48 hour blackout window is very punitive especially when you consider your team will have already played another game by that point. At the very least this should be reduced.

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    Name: James Whitehead on Jan 22, 2013

    Comments: I cannot even get sky so even if I was willing to pay for premier, I wouldn't be able to get it. Disgraceful NHL!!!

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    Name: Matthew Challis on Jan 22, 2013

    Comments: Complete joke. The NHL want the world to know about its league, but don't let people watch it. Use the NFL as an example and get the NHL to fans of the UK and the league will be bigger.

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    Name: Tom on Jan 22, 2013

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    Name: Aaron Hep on Jan 22, 2013

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    Name: Joanne Blakeley on Jan 22, 2013

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    Name: Sam Boothroyd on Jan 22, 2013

    Comments: Sort this shit out NHL!

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    Name: Nikki Maida on Jan 22, 2013

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    Name: Steven Smith on Jan 22, 2013

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    Name: Alex Farn on Jan 22, 2013

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