- Idle note: ESPN2 will televise 18 regular season WNBA games in 2010, up from 12 last year. ESPN2 will begin its coverage with the Sparks taking on the defending champion Mercury on May 15, the first day of the 2010 WNBA season. ABC will not air any regular season games. (WNBA)
- The ratings game: Sunday’s Blackhawks/Red Wings game drew a 4.1 rating on Chicago’s WGN-TV, the highest for a regular season Blackhawks game “in over 20 years.” The 4.1 tops the previous high of 3.3 “set earlier this month.” (NHL)
- Quote of the day: During a replay of a hard hit on 2000 Hobey Baker Award winner Mike Mottau in Monday’s Devils/Penguins game, FSN Pittsburgh play-by-play announcer Paul Steigerwald joked that Mottau did not go down “as hard as Hobey Baker went down … He went down in a plane crash.” Baker died in a plane crash in 1918. (Puck the Media)
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