I've been watching alot more non Leafs games the past few weeks and one thing I've noticed is that the sound on some of these broadcasts is so much better than what we get with Leaf games. You pickup so much more of the sounds off the boards or even on basic things like passes, everything just seems amplified. You can hear players clearly say things sometimes, I am right now watching PHI vs COL and Sanheim just yelled because some guy was holding his stick.
I'm not exactly that versed on things like broadcast or tech but it was pretty shocking to see the difference in sound quality.