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Video: The NHL is wildly unpopular with 'Jeopardy!' contestants
Puck Daddy — The NHL is riding a wave of popularity thanks to a well-hyped, if slightly underwhelming, Stanley Cup finals. Perhaps it can use this newfound influence to penetrate what is apparently an untapped audience: Eggheads on "Jeopardy!" Last night's syndicated episode featured a category called "Sports" and the following answer: "In 2000, an expansion team known as the Minnesota Wild joined this professional sports league." And then this happened: You have to imagine a nice Canadian boy like Trebek must have been dying ...

And the NHL Has Reached a New Low
The Sporting Blog — Give these Jeopardy contestants a clue about the String Theory s Dual Resonance Model and they d nail it. In their sleep. But bring up the NHL, and, well, all you re gonna hear is crickets: What I love about this -- aside from the fact that the contestants names are Donna, Debbie and Dino is that this was the $2,000 clue, meaning the show deemed it to be the most difficult of the Sports category. Although, granted, the Wild have only been around for eight years. So you know, the $400 Sports clue was, In 2008 Kelvin Sampson found he could no longer phone it in as the hoops coach of this Hoosier school. So, clearly, we re talking about some serious ...