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Originally posted by Jimmy4
One bad thing about hockey, it translates very, very poorly to TV. The best way to watch it is live. It might be better if directors learned a thing or two about hockey, but instead they decide to switch camera angles left and right. ([quickrant]WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE GLOWING PUCK?!? The ONE good innovation, and they just dump it.[/quickrant])
Widescreen HDTV does give potential to hockey on television, a shame the NHL won't last past next year.
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OMG!!! You can't be serious about the glowing puck. That was the worst idea ever invented. If you need a glowing puck to be able to follow the game, and a cute little streak across the screen to let you know somebody took a shot, then go play a video game. And the only crap photograpghy directors are the ones at ESPN. They think they are "spicing" up the game with all their camera angles, but they are only succeeding in giving me a headache.
The thing that makes hockey the greatest sport ever is the fact that, and I've said on these boards before, the players leave every ounce of their being out there on the ice just to get 1 goal. Scoring actually means something in this sport, unlike the endless coast to coast of basketball, or the run upon run of modern baseball. While hockey is slowly going the way of other pro sports, with overpaid babies, giving out halfass efforts. whining and crying after every game, at least for now, hockey players are real people giving everything they've got for a game they love to play.