OT: Around Hockey and the NHL

[Felonious Python]

What I don’t get is that it looked like the league manually interfered here yet now “they” say it was a settings error?

YouTube shenanigans happen all the time, so I'm not even phased to hear about this.

I'm surprised it was the actual NHL claiming their own videos. That's not always been a guarantee. YouTube creators have a very perilous existence. A single rule change can demonetize them, or bury their discoverability. I don't blame them for being skittish.

I don't think footage from a Canes-Rangers game played in 2022 really has much value at this point (or even the next day), so I'd say let them cook.

 

[Felonious Python]

I'm going to say it. Keeping Chel off of PCs hurts HRR.

Madden and EAFC (FIFA) both get PC releases. NBA 2k gets a PC release, although that's from a different publisher.

 

[Felonious Python]

A podcast on African soccer academies. If the NHL were to abolish its draft, we could get some interesting solutions to finding players.

 

[Major4Boarding]

Cool!

 

[LightningStrikes]

McDavid gooning it up in Edmonton: First an elbow to the face now a cross-check to the face (got a major for it).

Goonerov better step up!

 

[Felonious Python]

Cool!

Do we really know why league revenues are so high? EA hasn't even announced Chel for Switch 2 and PC. I don't think Nintendo has gotten an NHL game since maybe 2011. PC was the PS2 port of NHL 2009.


Allan Walsh is saying that the new national Canadian TV deal would be like 2x or 3x the current amount.

So the number of Canadians playing hockey drops (or doesn't really grow), the conventional TV ratings drop, and they get 2x the money?