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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Now I've heard the argument of "well hockey it's a team game, it's not star oriented. The best stars only play 20 minutes out of 60"? Why? Why is it that hockey has become 45 second shifts and no more? Why do the players have to skate so fast and tire themselves out? This will sound sacrilege for hockey fans but why aren't there more commercials so that the stars can rest? Why isn't there more than 1 timeout? Why does a faceoff have to occur so quickly so that a game end in 2 hours 30 minutes? What's the rush? Football fans watch 3 3+hour games every Sunday and they don't seem to mind at all. If hockey were slowed down with more breaks so that the 1st line plays over 30 minutes, you'd still watch.
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Watching a game that last 3+ hours only once a week isn't hard to do. Especially when the networks have their TV programs planned around that for one day of the week. With hockey being played every single night, and teams playing at least 82 games a season rather than 16-19 games a season, 3 hours is a bit much for regular season hockey. I think it would tire fans out a bit much. One of the issues with the NBA to some is the vast amount of timeouts at the end of the game, and those still end at about 2 and half hours, just like hockey.