Proposal: Do you want to take a day off from your job to watch trade deadline?

[McDrai]

I used to skip school every year to watch the trade deadline. It was kind of like my own secret tradition. But hey, now I'm an adult and don't really get excited about this stuff anymore (including birthdays and holidays). Maybe I'm a bit jaded

 

[biturbo19]

I used to skip school every year to watch the trade deadline. It was kind of like my own secret tradition. But hey, now I'm an adult and don't really get excited about this stuff anymore (including birthdays and holidays). Maybe I'm a bit jaded

Yeah. It used to be a thing i'd skip class for (among many other frivolous reasons). Just lounge around all day watching coverage and refreshing the (usually crashing) hfboards. But over time, i think i've sort of grown out of it...and at the same time, the deadline itself has become less eventful, and the coverage has become even more absurd and pointless...to the point where half of it is genuinely annoying at this point. It's hard to separate how much is the deadline event getting worse vs me getting old and jaded....but it's lost it's lustre for sure. Also doesn't help that the Canucks haven't been relevant at the deadline for years, and the expansion of "insiders" ensures that most every connection is drawn out at least in part days or weeks beforehand.


That said...it just so happens i'll be home on Monday. So yeah...i'll have the TSN coverage up in the background most of the day. Probably also muted most of the time.

 

[VaporTrail]

Naw...not for the trade deadline..But back in '99 I was working in a pizzeria when the Sabres were making a run in the playoffs I asked my boss to adjust my schedule around the Sabres games...He was an old school Italian guy, and basically said "no changing schedule"..Once I heard that I had to quit so I could watch the games.

 

[lionsDen]

I just want a day off to rest my brain

 

[GaryPoppins]

No but I work from home so it’ll be on ALL day.

 

[CoopersFalls]

Working a night shift at 1700 so will catch most of it. I usually try and not work it if possible.

 

[KrisLeturnover]

That feel when you work from home and can set your own hours

 

[DingDongCharlie]

In Canada I'm convinced this should be a national holiday, eh!

I work from home so I'm following it religiously anyways.

One of the things I like about hockey is following the roster lineups, trades, cap implications, draft, etc. The whole management side of hockey appeals more to me. I find this more entertaining then pretty much any games outside of actual playoff hockey.

I have friends who watch the games all the time and don't have a grasp on most teams rosters outside their own. They enjoy watching the hockey and it starts and ends there. For me, I wouldn't even be able to get into if I didn't know the rosters, opponents, etc.

 

[TeamRenzo]

They're probably a serious fan of hockey, what are they doing on these forums amirite?

To answer, I have before and didn't regret it. Of course, I actually follow the league and not just my team, so it's not only interesting to me when my team does something.

These days I don't schedule clients until the afternoon and Monday I don't work until 2:30pm so I'm going to see much of it.

There are dozens of apps that will give you the info in real-time, no need to take a vacation day and sit around watching TSN for eight hours while they overanalyze insignificant trades.

 

[The Flying Octopus]

Millennials asking if people take the day off for a hockey trade deadline just made me LOOL

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

Honestly, I used to from 2010-2015. I remember like two years in a row where nothing really happened until trades were being finalized an hour later.

 

[david999]

I personally love trade deadline coverage and will be watching all day. I used to always watch Sportsnet and TSN equally, but now strictly stick to TSN as I like their hockey hosts and insiders better.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

There are dozens of apps that will give you the info in real-time, no need to take a vacation day and sit around watching TSN for eight hours while they overanalyze insignificant trades.

Unless you enjoy the ritual of watching hockey analysis and analyzing trades as they occur.

Again, just because it can't hold YOUR focus doesn't mean it has no worth to others.

I know there seems to be a growing consensus on these boards that everyone thinks it's dumb to do. I would also argue that the threshold of fandom on these boards has regressed severely in the last 15 years. It used to be a place for hockey nerds who consumed just about every piece of hockey info that they could, and there are still sub-forums with some of that. Now it's a place for people to be smug, drop hot takes, and say the same mediocre joke 78 times.

 

[spockBokk]

I work from home nowadays so the past 2 deadlines I’ve streamed the TSN feed on my iPad while I am “working”. I’ll do the same on Monday, when im not tied up in meetings.

 

[abo9]

I worked from home, so I'll likely have a live feed in the background

But wven if I was at work, I'd at worst check occasionally, no point in wasting a day off for a couple trades

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Used to always skip school. Hard to justify burning a vacation day, especially with how easy it is to follow along at work now.