NHL once again leaking into a professionality problem. Would be interesting to look at all the games played in the last week or two and the results are almost random. Of course we freaked out here with Oilers losing out to the Ducks but its almost been par for the course, or around half the time of teams favored, losing, approaching and during the holiday season. The games rendered almost unwatchable. I wonder if Prime is wondering too as almost all of their games have been garbage. Among the poorest games played. This of course influencing ratings inevitably because if most games are dreck, and just poor viewing and poorly contested then viewers just find something other to do or watch.
Yesterday it got to the point of even an Outdoor classic being almost unwatchable. Changed the channel several times. The game was boring, and concluded, obvious who was going to win and Connor Bedard was mostly invisible. Anybody buying the "next one" junk would have again been dissuaded with how little Bedard actually shows in a game. He would arguably be the marquee player in the game and of course for the homeside and if you brought your kid to this game you'd have to buy a program to know which player Bedard was because he was unnoticeable. I don't think he made one play in all the time I did watch that stood out. This kind of thing is a problem for the NHL. Nothing amazing about the game, routine plays, routine goals, very little going on in EV play. You have to really love the game to appreciate any of this. The game was poorly played and uneventful. In a word, boring.
