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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
The thing that bugs me the most about NHL hockey broadcasts has always been their complete lack of explaining things on the technical side.
The broadcasters might say something like the LA Kings play a defensive style, but they never breakdown what that actually means. Do they play man on man in the D-zone, Box +1, overload, etc.
I think a lot of even hardcore fans don't really have a good idea about systems like Box+1 and that's a shame. It's paid attention to so little that its even difficult to find good explanations on the internet about hockey systems and tactics.
It'd be nice if they had coaches on the show that have coached in this century, to explain the current hockey hockey strategies and systems more thoroughly.
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Hrudey used to provide this kind of analysis on the panel but no longer. I honestly believe they told him to simplify his analysis because even towards the ends of his days as a panelist only, as opposed to Flames colour guy, he really stopped doing a lot of the in depth stuff that we all liked him for when he first started.