They just dont want to shatter Utah's confidence as it's a perpetual failure of a franchise once it moved to Arizona.
The caps are a lot hotter than the nhl expected as well so they gotta curve some games/goals/calls/etc
Im assuming gary (who likes to insert) buttplug(s) didnt expect ovi to break gretzkys record this year and has a nice deal for whatever company can air the games when it gets closer