The New York Rangers recently defeated the Carolina Hurricanes with a final score of 4-3 marking an incredible overtime playoff victory. Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin saved 28 goals, whereas Carolina goalie, Pyotr Kochetkov saved 23 shots.
With the win, the Rangers ended the Hurricanes three-game winning streak and won the series. While the Rangers were on power play late in the third period of the intense game, ESPN’s coverage unexpectedly switched to the Colorado Avalanche and the Dallas Stars game.
With less than a minute left in a tied playoff game between the Hurricanes and Rangers, ESPN abruptly switched to the Avalanche and Stars.
Fortunately, the mistake was quickly fixed. pic.twitter.com/Jwhu9dZmXj
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 8, 2024
ESPN accidentally switched to Dallas – Colorado with less than a minute left in a tie game. Figured it out pretty quickly at least pic.twitter.com/uTl98ecCPG
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) May 8, 2024
The giant network was on Stars-Avalanche broadcast for about 20 seconds before it came back and during the switch, no goals were scored in the Rangers-Hurricanes game and it continued to be aired on the network. However, the Avalanche-Stars game was supposed to start after the Rangers-Hurricanes ended.
Are we surprised? It's ESPN…
— Mid-Major Basketball (@midmajorball) May 8, 2024
THE WAY I ALMOST YEETED THE REMOTE AT MY TV WHEN @espn SWITCHED FROM THE RANGERS GAME TO THE DALLAS GAME????
REALLY??? DURING A POWER PLAY???
WITH A MINUTE LEFT??? DURING THE PLAYOFFS??? IN A TIE GAME???? #NYR bruh I need it back on MSG pic.twitter.com/0dxNHGG3D8— DJ Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Evangelista (@WakandaBS_isDis) May 8, 2024
DID ESPN JUST SWITCH AWAY FROM THE RANGERS GAME DURING A POWER PLAY IN THE FINAL MINUTE OF A TIE GAME?!?!??!
— Knicks Memes (@KnicksMemes) May 8, 2024
ESPN continues to go down the toilet…
— Tristan White (@TristanWhiteWx) May 8, 2024
The amount of mistakes in the television industry anymore is a testament to how truly greedy and cheap these organizations have become. https://t.co/8BHzHbLkue
— Jared Barton (@JaredTBarton) May 8, 2024
Hockey fans: hey ESPN can we finish this rangers canes game before switching over to avs stars?
ESPN with 1:30 left in a tie game: pic.twitter.com/1DY4y1MQpp
— The Bratt Pack (@TheBrattPack63) May 8, 2024
Unreal, ESPN cutting away in the final minute of a tied Rangers-Canes playoff game https://t.co/6QyiQy9CBy
— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) May 8, 2024
The Stars-Avalanche game was supposed to start on ESPN but was moved to ESPNU. However, twenty seconds were enough to get the attention of the community as they bombarded the network’s NHL presentation and ESPN as well.
