Will hockey clip horse racing on Saturday?

[Merlinsky]

There's an NHL Playoff game scheduled, you guessed it, right before Preakness coverage starts on NBC. Based on past experience, if we aren't shorted at least 30 minutes, I'll be stunned. It'll probably go into some epic overtime battle with our luck. It's Boston v. Tampa Bay. Are they evenly matched or is there a heavy favorite here?

This is hardly a new thing with hockey coverage, but given the Versus/NBC link, is there any way they'd at least continue Preakness coverage over on the cable channel rather than cutting us off completely? There are Indy 500 time trials on Versus after their horse racing coverage ends, so I have a feeling we're going to get squeezed here. At least it's professional sports and not little league baseball this time.