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There is no bringing back the long stretch of the first period many Canucks fans missed Tuesday night because of a Blue Jays broadcast scheduling mess.

But a day after the programming debacle that incensed Vancouver hockey viewers, Sportsnet president Scott Moore admits his network really screwed up.

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“One of the cardinal rules in television is you don’t leave a live event before it’s over,” he said Wednesday on the phone from Toronto. “With the special circumstances in Vancouver, we made an exception to it, but we probably waited too long.”

Tuesday’s game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Canucks started in Vancouver at 7 p.m. The telecast was slated for Sportsnet Pacific, starting at the same, time, as it usually is.

The problem for Sportsnet was the program before the NHL contest was a Blue Jays-White Sox game, a Major League Baseball matchup the Jays won in a blowout, but which also ran long.