Pond Hockey – First Intermission Thoughts
The Winter Classic is underway in Buffalo. At the start the snow was dumping down and the puck couldnt go 10 feet before stopping in a snowbank. The players are grinning like they’re 8 and the crowd hasnt sat down.
It’s a spectacular event, but I doubt there’s anyone left wathcing the game on NBC.
Their coverage is terrible. There has been a dry scrape halfway through the first, and a hole that took almost 15 minutes to fill. The commentators haven’t got a thing to say and when they do they SCREAM and YELL like something EXCITING is happening, even if there isn’t. It’s just plain terrible. I’m a hockey fan and I can’t watch NBC’s coverage. Even their HD cameras have a fuzzy and dark tint, and aren’t nearly as good as the CBC’s.
Meanwhile – Hughson, Millen, Freidman and Simpson are kicking it on the Mother Corp. Smooth, anecdotal, relevant, diverse. Brilliant.
I’m trying to find the down low ice-level cam shot of the first goal by Armstrong from Crosby. Seeing Crosby coming down the wing, with an HD ice level camera (and I mean on the ice, not at the boards), was the coolest hockey camera angle I’ve ever seen.
This type of game and atmosphere and conditions are AWESOME. It’s wild to watch. BUT, I would rather see this sort of circus atmosphere for an All Star Game, not a regular season tilt.
The All Star Games are yawners to begin with, this sort of kitsch would make it much more of an event.
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