The Rangers suffered a brief blackout on the power play.
In Game 2 against the Hurricanes at The Garden on Tuesday night, as the Blueshirts held the man advantage and tied the game at three points as regulation wore down, ESPN’s broadcast of Stars vs. Avalanche The series switched to pregame broadcasts.
Viewers got a glimpse of Mike Monaco and AJ Mlekutso in Dallas, but missed about 15 seconds of the game during a crucial moment.
Viewers were uncomfortable, to say the least.
“Probably the craziest network I’ve ever seen,” former NHLer and Barstool Sports podcaster Ryan Whitney wrote on X.
“Was anyone else’s ESPN feed switching to the next game for a few seconds while the Rangers were tied on a power play with less than a minute left in the third?” said Audacity Radio host Maggie Gray. wrote. “It was really hell, almost a disaster.”
“Oh, they temporarily made the Rangers game a Heidi game,” wrote Peter Bott of the Post. It notes that the 1968 AFL game between the Jets and the Raiders was cut out of the infamous film Heidi for East Coast viewers, who were unable to watch the Oakland game. Larry.
The Rangers-Hurricanes feed was returned with 32.4 seconds left in regulation time, and thankfully everyone involved didn’t miss a point, sending the game into overtime.
