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14
Oh, Please NHL, NOT AGAIN!
May 14, 2008
News is that Versus wants to use puck tracking technology. Fox did this. It was a joke. By way of ‘guilty by association’ the NHL was seen as a joke. Using cheap parlour tactics that were more of a distraction than enhancement to a person’s enjoyment or understanding of the game.
Anyone who understands hockey will tell you that what is important for viewers to understand and watch is how a play develops, the position of the players on the ice. Not — “Versus’ senior vice president of programming, says puck tracking could be a great tool to trace the pinpoint passing of NHL stars. “You could see how they thread the needle,” he says. That’s obviously a guy that doesn’t get it.
The time a player has the puck on their stick during a game can be measured in seconds. Of the average twelve or so minutes players are on the ice, (as little as a couple of minutes for role players to the high twenties for first defence pairings), most is spent without the puck. To put such focus on the puck would lose the very essence of the game. What every coach should be teaching children learning the game — what you do without the puck is the most important part of hockey. If you aren’t in the right position: a) you likely won’t get the puck; and b) you will be out of position to do anything with it if you do receive it.
What would be far more effective is to have someone with a telestrator immediately review a play during a stoppage — a tracker might work here — just not live. That’s how people will learn to appreciate the game. Not with glowing pucks that show “pinpoint passes”
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