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The Sidney Show is still on a roll. After delivering near-record ratings for Versus in the first two games of the Stanley Cup finals, the Red Wings-Pittsburgh series switched to NBC, and Wednesday night's Game 3 drew a respectable 2.8 rating and 5 share in the overnight numbers. Now, prime-time network numbers like that usually don't cause cartwheels, but this is the NHL. Any rating that ... [link]

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Published 5/31/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... in next year's Winter Classic, it'll prevent them from bidding to host their own outdoor game in the near future. "There are so many things that need to fall into place for this to be a reality,'' Holland said. Detroit Free Press : The Detroit Free Press wraps up our journey around the Wings' press, first offering up a 25-image gallery of the latest Red Wings-Penguins Photoshops; Steve Schrader wonders whether Don Cherry's suits have gone too far , he notes that the Wings out-drew the Pistons in Detroit on Wednesday, and suggests that the Wings ought to root ...

Puck Headlines: Will the rest of the NHL imitate the Red Wings?
Published 6/1/2008 at Puck Daddy
... received our copy of The Washington Post Sunday edition this morning. The final score of Game 4 was on the front page of the sports section. A small recap of the series thus far was included among the local golf, local running and American Legion Baseball results. Other than that ... not a single bylined story or column inch about the Stanley Cup finals in one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., which serves an NHL city. Remember that the next time the League crows about improving TV ratings and attendance figures; we've still got a very, very long way to go with ...

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