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goldrush posted:https://twitter.com/ConorRyan_93/status/1294114857311252481?s=09 He's not wrong. Having no fans is just bizarre and it does take a lot of the excitement out of the games. It's going to feel especially awkward the deeper into this thing we get. I went to game 5 vs the Preds a few years ago and it was an amazing atmosphere and I won't soon forget it. It sucks that a lot of fans are going to miss out on that experience due to the pandemic. There really is nothing like going to a Stanley Cup finals home game for your team live. It's a different atmosphere even compared to normal playoff hockey.
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It sucks not having a crowd, but I rest easy knowing I still got to hear this crowd in person this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Lsal4SsEo
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If they'd cancelled the playoffs this year all the players would be going on about how they'd prefer to play in front of empty arenas for a chance to win the cup and that they don't need fans to build that intensity. A hell of a lot of games have had bad blood even with the empty stands. I've not noticed the lack of fans for the most part.
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Hey, here's a thing: https://twitter.com/JacketsInsider/status/1294286992113635330 ThinkTank posted:If they'd cancelled the playoffs this year all the players would be going on about how they'd prefer to play in front of empty arenas for a chance to win the cup and that they don't need fans to build that intensity. Is there a difference in how the crowd noise is piped-in on the broadcast? FOX Sports Ohio hasn't seemed to have it to the level NBCSN has in the games I've watched. Shinjobi posted:It sucks not having a crowd, but I rest easy knowing I still got to hear this crowd in person this season. And I didn't realize just how much I needed an Ohio Stadium Winter Classic in my life until right now.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Is there a difference in how the crowd noise is piped-in on the broadcast? FOX Sports Ohio hasn't seemed to have it to the level NBCSN has in the games I've watched. I think so. First games I watched were Ranger games on MSG and didn’t get what the big deal with crowd noise was but when I watched a game on NBCSN it was very loud and noticeable. They need to tone it down a notch.
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Yeah, plus someone posted an in arena clip yesterday (May have been on Discord) and it sounds much crappier and obviously artificial.
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah, plus someone posted an in arena clip yesterday (May have been on Discord) and it sounds much crappier and obviously artificial. So it IS heard in-arena and not just piped into the broadcast, then. I wasn't sure if it was or if they had the full beer-league sound experience.
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah, plus someone posted an in arena clip yesterday (May have been on Discord) and it sounds much crappier and obviously artificial. https://twitter.com/GMillerTSN/status/1293616516051722245
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I also noticed on the broadcast last night (at loving 0130 because that start time is absurd) that they do some sort of digital scrambling so that you can't hear the, uh, conversations happening in the scrums. Guess they don't want to risk
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Cocaine Bear posted:I also noticed on the broadcast last night (at loving 0130 because that start time is absurd) that they do some sort of digital scrambling so that you can't hear the, uh, conversations happening in the scrums. Guess they don't want to risk Yeah, they're on a slight delay so they can reverse the audio when they hear a no-no word. loving FCC. They seem to have their signal chain fixed so we don't get ref calls that sound like Sims. https://streamable.com/e/edz9ck?loop=0
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Aug 14, 2020 17:16
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ESPN posted:Canadiens coach Claude Julien was released from the hospital and will return home to Montreal to rest after having a stent inserted into his coronary artery, the team announced Friday.
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Aug 14, 2020 17:21
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Dzus posted:Yeah, they're on a slight delay so they can reverse the audio when they hear a no-no word. loving FCC. They still sometimes manage to reverse the NBC commercial break transition music and such, and it reverses the fake crowd noise, which it shouldn't either if they were smart. It seems so obvious to me that the reversing should only affect rinkside mics and nothing else, but now it seems to affect everything except commentary.
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Cocaine Bear posted:I also noticed on the broadcast last night (at loving 0130 because that start time is absurd) that they do some sort of digital scrambling so that you can't hear the, uh, conversations happening in the scrums. Guess they don't want to risk Apparently it had Razor cracking up on commentary cause you could clearly tell words were flying
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Aug 14, 2020 17:48
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goldrush posted:I remember the whole "is this the end of superstar goaltending needed to win Cups?" narrative that peaked at that time, following the period of the first five seasons after the lockout featuring a lot of Cup finals teams without that traditional star goalie like we got used to during the Roy/Brodeur/Hasek/Belfour era. That Niemi/Leighton final was the zenith. That narrative ended up fizzling out with the stellar Thomas/Quick seasons that followed.
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Isn't one of the issues that there isn't any goalie on the tier of Roy/Brodeur/Hasek/Belfour? Lundqvist and Luongo come the closest, and even they feel far off.
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Luongo and Lundqvist are miles ahead of Belfour who was the Johnny Quick of his era. Like all things, there's no one way to build a cup winner and having a world class goalie helps but is also not necessary like all positions. Looking at the few most recent championship teams and drawing sweeping conclusions about team construction from them is myopic in the extreme. The only surefire way to win a cup is to build up a lot of talent and depth top it off with a massive dollop of luck. ThinkTank fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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ThinkTank posted:Luongo and Lundqvist are miles ahead of Belfour who was the Johnny Quick of his era. I'm pretty sure he means reputation/star power wise. Today's goalies are all better than 3 of those guys and a good amount of them are better than the 4th. It's a lot harder to be a goalie in the modern era. You can't just drink and sister gently caress your way into the record books anymore. Harder job, more variation, people don't get behind the guys in the same way and their reputations don't build up. Except for Carey Price in Canada. The Sportsnet broadcasts this entire post-season have just been a close-up Carey Price blowjob (which is legal to show on basic cable in Canada.) Every Toronto goalie is #1 in the world until he loses a game too.
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ThinkTank posted:Luongo and Lundqvist are miles ahead of Belfour who was the Johnny Quick of his era. Billion-dollar Eddie has multiple individual seasons which exceed, in value, Quick's cumulative output to date. Early-career Belfour is somewhat forgotten these days. Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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Aug 14, 2020 18:43
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Avs need to fire their special teams coach after this season. No excuse for the powerplay to look this incompetent with the talent they have. It's like they are afraid to shoot the puck, unless the net is completely empty. So frustrating to watch
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Aug 14, 2020 19:34
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How do you knock the puck into your own team's net when it's not even a deflection or anything?  . Avalanche look like crap today, so many dumb mistakes
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Hand Knit posted:Early-career Belfour is somewhat forgotten these days. Most players on those old Chicago teams were forgotten because Bill Wirtz was the worst owner in the history of professional sports and only games played in Chicago were broadcast and only on his lovely Blackhawks TV thing. gently caress Bill Wirtz
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Aug 14, 2020 19:44
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Hand Knit posted:Billion-dollar Eddie Lol E: feelin fine 
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Aphrodite posted:I'm pretty sure he means reputation/star power wise. Today's goalies are all better than 3 of those guys and a good amount of them are better than the 4th. To be fair Carey Price has been unreal these playoffs so far
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Aug 14, 2020 20:27
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Not that I can remember many, but these playoffs have some of the best chaos energy I can remember
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Probably only going to get crazier as these tight scheduled games continue. Stars and flames have two late starts back to back then a day off then an early afternoon start. It's like 3 games in 60 hours or something. Gonna get messy with injuries and guys having enough of each other. Should be fun!
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Dzus posted:Yeah, they're on a slight delay so they can reverse the audio when they hear a no-no word. loving FCC. i gotta love the NHL bringing back backmasking, and if they were smart they'd post this to Twitter with it reversed and Wes McCauley saying "Paul is dead, miss him miss him miss him" or "Turn me on, dead man"
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Aug 14, 2020 20:48
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I loving hate how much the Avs commentators say "shot... MISSED THE NET!". It's not that loving exciting when a player shoots the puck inaccurately.
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Aug 14, 2020 21:00
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Shinjobi posted:It sucks not having a crowd, but I rest easy knowing I still got to hear this crowd in person this season. I was there too. Best sporting event I’ve ever been to, aside from how long it took to get on the DART after.
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I feel like Avs got lucky to win that one. A bunch of Coyotes chances hit the post or hit Grubauer in the chest when he was looking in the wrong direction. I'll take it, though. Hope Francous starts next game, cuz Grubauer looked flat out lost on a lot of shots, he didn't even see them and would get lucky that they missed or hit him in the chest
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Aug 14, 2020 21:36
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stab posted:To be fair Carey Price has been unreal these playoffs so far Yeah but they started before he even played a game.
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Aug 14, 2020 22:40
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Aug 14, 2020 23:02
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As a Flyers fan: Have to hope that was just a matter of one team having a fluke fantastic game and one team having a fluke awful game and both of those flukes happening at the same time on the same ice. But also, Philly barely scraped by in game one. So.
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I mean holy gently caress, I can typically be like "lmao Philly" but there is absolutely no excuse for that level of play I mean god drat
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Aug 14, 2020 23:10
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Yeah, it's great! Chaos reigns.
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The Flyers are back, baby.
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