NBC Shocks The World: Gives Hockey A Bigger Priority Tonight Over Conan O'Brien

We all know about NBC's escapades in their not caring about hockey. So often, when a game goes deep into overtime and they have other important programming they would rather show, they move the hockey game to Versus. However, that won't be happening tonight! Nope. Conan O'Brien be damned tonight, NBC is going to stick with Game 7 until we have a winner and the Cup is raised! From Neil Best of Newsday.

Are the NBC entertainment types aware of the fact the hockey game could go deep into overtime and thus delay or even erase Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show?”

“They are well aware of it,” NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer said. “Everyone is very cool with it. We go until it’s over.”

This may be the first time that NBC has given hockey any sort of priority at all. And to think that it took a Game 7 for them to finally say that we are sticking with this until it's over. I am officially pumped for tonight!

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