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It's hard for me to watch hockey on television. I've been to over 100 Rangers games, and probably over 150 games in all, so obviously I favor the live action. As for watching it on TV, I like when some networks light up the puck. However, when HD networks broadcast it, I really do enjoy it. It's kind of pointless for me to watch on TV though, when I could just go to the games.
Living in England I've only been to a handful of NHL games (I go quite regularly to see the Solihull Barons and the Coventry Blaze play though) but I don't really have any trouble following it on tv. The cameramen do a fantastic job and once you've been following hockey for a while you get a feel for how the puck moves so you can kind of anticipate where it's going to go.
nopthing is better then watching a hockey game in person(preferably close seats, though expensive) but watching hockey on tv is just fine, but then again I am a hockey fan
and as for the question, I think they do a good job, I never had a problem watching in the 15 or so years I have been watching, some people complain, so I guess you have to like the sport, I know Fox had a glowing puck gimmick(to be able to see the puck better) several years back when they televised some games, for me seeing the puck is never a problem so I dont know
Nothing is as good as watching in person; but for those of us that don't live in NHL cities (or anywhere close!) we LOVE televised NHL games. We had season tickets to the Penguins during the 11 years we lived there. Now we have season tickets to the Knoxville Ice Bears (local minor league team) and usually make two to three trips a year to an NHL game. The rest of the time we watch the games at home. God Bless the hockey camera folks!
It's not that the game is too fast, it's that the puck is too small to follow on TV. Maybe the increased resolution of HDTV will resolve that. I remember when Fox News tried to address that by adding that "glow" thingy around the puck and they got excoriated until they stopped doing it.
IMO it's not that it's "boring" (how can such a fast-paced game be boring?) but that casual viewers or tune-ins don't have a clear understanding of the rules, i.e., how the game works. I can see how someone could lose interest after a spate of "offsides" calls, etc...
Of course it comes down to what catches a viewer's interest and what doesn't, about any sport.
For instance I find baseball terminally boring. It's a slow game (snails pace compared to hockey) and basically one of 2 things happens: A batter either hits the ball or he doesn't. If he does hit it, someone either catches it or he doesn't. Basically that's what the whole game hinges on, at least from my perspective. Nothing really unexpected happens. The entire game is pretty much structured and orderly. No penalties that affect lineups or give one team a temporary advantage over the other. No fights. So for me, baseball contains no drama.
Not knocking baseball but just saying that it isn't a game that has ever appealed to me personally and I have no desire to watch it because I find it, yup, "boring".
IMO it's not that it's "boring" (how can such a fast-paced game be boring?) but that casual viewers or tune-ins don't have a clear understanding of the rules, i.e., how the game works. I can see how someone could lose interest after a spate of "offsides" calls, etc...
Of course it comes down to what catches a viewer's interest and what doesn't, about any sport.
For instance I find baseball terminally boring. It's a slow game (snails pace compared to hockey) and basically one of 2 things happens: A batter either hits the ball or he doesn't. If he does hit it, someone either catches it or he doesn't. Basically that's what the whole game hinges on, at least from my perspective. Nothing really unexpected happens. The entire game is pretty much structured and orderly. No penalties that affect lineups or give one team a temporary advantage over the other. No fights. So for me, baseball contains no drama.
Not knocking baseball but just saying that it isn't a game that has ever appealed to me personally and I have no desire to watch it because I find it, yup, "boring".
YMMV of course
I will agree with that first sentence,it is an exciting and fast moving game, but I myself don't understand a lot of the rules
and for the fact ,that I'm from Florida. I think its more exciting to attend the games.
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