GAME ON! SUNDAY AFTERNOON DUE TO ARENA SCHEDULING CONFLICT

          Game One of the Sabres-Maple Leafs series has been
     scheduled for Sunday, according to Alan Pergament of the
     BUFFALO NEWS, who wrote that both Fox and the CBC were
     "hoping" the game would be played Saturday night.  CBC
     wanted the game so it could showcase the only Canadian team
     left in the playoffs on its "Hockey Night In Canada," while
     Fox wanted to carry the Avalanche-Stars on Sunday afternoon. 
     But an ice show booked at Reunion Arena "forced" the
     Avalanche-Stars to be played Saturday night.  Pergament
     wrote that it is "logical" to wonder why the NHL or Reunion
     arena "would book an ice show in late May" when the Stars
     "hoped to be heading toward the Stanley Cup Finals." 
     Saturday's game will be on both CBC and ESPN (BUFFALO NEWS,
     5/20).   NEWSDAY's Steve Zipay writes the Sabres-Leafs game
     "should be a ratings disaster: Canada isn't metered and
     Buffalo is one of the smaller U.S. markets" (NEWSDAY, 5/21).