1. For the most part Canada has also had seasonally warm weather.
2. No Canadian Teams to draw them into the first round and beyond.
3. NBA playoff in TO.
4. MLB excitement in TO.
5. Center Ice like production quality. The use of biased local broadcast is very annoying.
The bold is a big one for me. I was gonna watch the TB and Det game last night but went golfing instead.
I do wonder if there is too much parity now a days. Pretty much every game seems like a coin flip so you never really feel shocked when something happens. You'd think it would be a big deal for a team like the Hawks to be on the ropes but I think everyone just shrugs their shoulders and thinks the Blues are just as good and just didn't get the breaks the past few years.
Besides Minnesota or Philadelphia winning, there really isn't any potential surprises to be had, everything is a coin flip.
Pittsburgh-Rangers - 3 point spread in the season
Florida-Islanders - 3 point spread
Tampa-Detroit - 4 point spread
Blues-Hawks - 4 points
LA - San Jose - 4 points
Ducks-Preds - 7 points
With the games so low scoring, a fluke goal basically wins you a game and potentially a series.
I've watched more playoff hockey than I did regular season hockey. I watched Flames games and a few other games here and there. Last night I watched hockey all night. Same with most of the first round. But a bunch of my friends have been watching more baseball and basketball these days since their team didn't make the playoffs. I'll admit I even watched the Golden State game the other night.
I am not liking how they cut to a different game in progress every intermission. I would go to that channel if I wanted to watch that game. I like the intermissions, a time to debrief.
CBC knew how to craft a story. The montages, isolating particular players, solid background work by the commentators. SN pretty much just follows the game from the centre-ice camera. It's like they don't understand the drama that draws people to sports. SN is bad for hockey.
I agree with this 100%. Tell me if you don't get the chills while watching this.
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That won't be happening. No way SN would do that and why would TSN help out its arch rival and the NHL? Remember that it was the NHL that kicked out TSN to the curb. Barry MacDonald and Don Taylor spoke with David Shoalts on Tuesday on TSN 1040 about this very subject. Ratings and production were also talked about. Skip to the 21:28 where the HNIC music is played.
I HATE the scheduling this year. Two games at 5:30pm, 2 at 7:30pm.
Great, so both are at commercials/intermission at the same time, then I have to choose between games. Oh more are on later? Oh great, same issue. 3rd/3rd/1st/1st and then over/over/break/break. Fantastic. *eye roll*
Honestly I like to flip, especially if a game is a blow out or boring, or w/e. Forcing me to try and watch the talking heads in between periods = turn off TV. Then with the weather....I don't come back.
Amazing how the criticism from other media sources seems to be centred around personalities and not production.
Quite enjoying watching Rogers fumble this around. I think it will get worse, too. Their reaction to ratings slips will be to cut budgets, use less cameras, bandwidth, they'll be looking to cut costs in all the places they already neglect.
Ten more years!
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Amazing how the criticism from other media sources seems to be centred around personalities and not production.
Yeah, they can't seem to get past the question of Maclean vs Strombo. Evidently, they don't even notice things like camera angles, number of cameras, editing, picture quality, and audio.
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I don't have cable and while I used to have NHL gamecenter to stream games I was never get the quality to be high enough to watch unless it was a Flames game I was interested. MLB.tv manages to stream in HD don't see why gamecenter can't seem to.
First and foremost I'm a flames fan though, my playoff watching is down way more then 61% since the Flames aren't in it.
I do wonder if there is too much parity now a days. Pretty much every game seems like a coin flip so you never really feel shocked when something happens. You'd think it would be a big deal for a team like the Hawks to be on the ropes but I think everyone just shrugs their shoulders and thinks the Blues are just as good and just didn't get the breaks the past few years.
You think more people would watch if the result was not in doubt?
There are TONS of people that only watch if the local team is in it
and please cut the BS if the Oilers or Canucks were playing we would be glued to our sets cheering for them to lose
I can honestly say that if the Oil and Canucks were in, I'd watch most, if not all of their games. I watched a huge chunk of the Canucks run in 2011 and I was angry they kept advancing.
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I have been taping all the games and then randomly skipping through them. To me, only the SJS-LAK and StLB-CHI series have been really good and the rest seem pretty sub par. I am not really cheering for anyone to win or lose and that makes it tough. i really don't care who wins this year and when you don't have a dog in the race interest wanes.
Just saying with a strong rooting interest people are more inclined to tune in...Vancouver losing in the finals was certainly a big event on CP. I can guarantee Vancouver in the finals had longer game threads than any other finals since.
