[grimes]

This is good news...and you know what Grimes, I never really thought about the CTV option, but I would have to agree that the way CBC and TSN combine for playoff coverage probably does provide us with the most viewing opportunities. I have to ask about Bettman's comment regarding High Def...I thought that the majority of the late broadcasts since last November-ish have been in High Def...perhaps my eyes were deceiving me??? And as for the reduced Leaf content, I'll believe it when I see it. Where did you see the "23, instead of 28" information???

I got that from the Globe and Mail
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As for the Hi-def, for the most part the late games have been done in widescreen standard definition this year. It's better than non-widescreen, but not as good as true HD. The problem has been that CBC has only had one HD production truck, so if it wanted to do more than one game in HD, it would have to rent a truck from someone else (which it did do a few times this season). Apparently their second HD truck has just come online, so from here on out there shouldn't be any trouble with having two HD games a week (and hopefully lots more for playoffs!)