Hockey on the Tube in 2008-09

Unless NHL exhibition games make your pulse quicken, September is a dreary stretch for the hockey fan.

It's not summer, but it's not hockey season either. So what's the point of September?

If nothing else, we can use the empty month to make plans for when the real games start. Here are this season's NHL TV schedules for the league's major broadcasters:
Hockey Night in Canada on CBC
NHL on Versus
NHL on TSN