soccer announcers calling hockey is great. they bluff like crazy. watched the nagano olympics in the uk. they only called every third player's name with the puck and said generic things after plays like "not very much happening there" and "oh dear, he's going to be disappointed with that". we started a drinking game every time they said "chelios". sounds awesome with a bbc accent.
Yeah they are playing over in Belfast Ireland for the 4 team tournament.
Which I am shocked they even have arenas in belfast.
The announcers I saw were soccer announcers.
Nope, the commentator used (at least on the UK) broadcast is actually one of the few hockey commentators we have, Aaron Murphy. And yes, he’s annoying. The good thing is today’s games were on free to a watch TV in the UK, but I bet very few people actually watched it.
We actually have some fairly decent arenas, albeit, very small. Ice Hockey in the UK actually has a fairly interesting history and only as recently as the late 90s the Manchester Storm team once has a then European record attendance at a game of just over 17k.
Most of the rinks we have are terrible in quality, but there’s some decent ones too.