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A handful of changes were made heading into the debut season. Long-time Hockey Night host Ron MacLean was ushered out of the main chair with George Stroumboulopoulos, a younger man, sliding in. A new studio was built, new hosts and personalities were added.

“We certainly know there are certain things that some people are not used to yet,” Moore said. “When you make a lot of changes, you’re going to have folks complaining about those changes, in some cases.”

Some of those complaints have never been hard to find on social media. Rogers opted to keep a handful of on-air personalities who can divide an audience, notably Glenn Healy, the acerbic former goaltender, and P.J. Stock, the former journeyman forward.

The network also moved away from pre-game musical montages, which had become a popular fixture on Hockey Night broadcasts under the CBC. Tim Thompson, the former hockey player behind many of the most popular montages, is no longer on the show.

“The sample of people who comment on Twitter are not necessarily the people who are your actual audience,” Moore said. “A couple of things happen on Twitter: It’s where people tend to be negative … and we do a lot of audience surveys, so we have a larger, bigger picture that we track.”

He gave the production a grade of 75% — a high “B” — for its first season.

More changes will be coming next season, he said, with plans to shift the mix of on-air talent for hockey on Wednesday night. There will be more of a focus on the game itself on Sunday nights, with the broadcast package moving to Sportsnet from CityTV.