Sportsnet President Scott Moore admitted that his network "really screwed up" when it failed to broadcast a long stretch of the first period of the Canucks game Tuesday night due to a Blue Jays broadcast scheduling mishap, according to Patrick Johnston of the Vancouver PROVINCE. Tuesday’s game against the Golden Knights was the second-to-last home contest for Canucks Fs Henrik and Daniel Sedin, who are retiring. The game started in Vancouver at 7:00pm PT and was "slated for Sportsnet Pacific, starting at the same time, as it usually is." The problem for Sportsnet was that the program before the NHL contest was a Blue Jays-White Sox game, which the Jays "won in a blowout, but which also ran long." That "meant frustrated Canucks fans couldn’t watch the game" or the Sedin twins. Fans "took to social media to air their frustrations." Moore said, "The power of social media did make us aware of (the problems). ... In hindsight we probably should have moved the opening of that game to a channel that’s a little more broadly distributed. Hard-core fans know about our companion channel but casual fans don’t." On Thursday, Canucks-Coyotes "will be shown coast to coast" (Vancouver PROVINCE, 4/5).
