The social media departments of NHL teams, it seems, sometimes have to resort to pulling crappy out-of-ratio Youtube rips for certain past highlights - one example would be Pavel Datsyuk's famous shootout goal against Thomas Voukon, of which a full-quality clip doesn't seem to exist anywhere that's accessible and whenever someone wants to reference it, even the actual NHL Youtube page itself, they need to go find some gross, grainy cut of it.
On the other hand, every now and again a high-quality version of an old clip will surface, as it did today - the Blue Jackets Twitter posted a 60FPS version of the famous Rick Nash goal and it's quite nice to look at. Notably, however, they didn't post the full pulled-back broadcast angle, though maybe this was intentional.
There are other examples, there's a high-definition version of the Marek Malik shootout goal in a shootout compilation video somewhere on Youtube, and there exists an HD broadcast of the 2002 Olympic gold medal game where a rebroadcast of it is where this clip comes from (obviously this isn't the NHL, just thought it was relevant).
This just makes me wonder, how in the world is NHL footage dealt with in general? There's no way someone looked at that Datsyuk goal on tape and decided "eh we'll never need this again", presumably it exists somewhere but is sitting in a vault for no one to enjoy ever. Does the NHL retain ultimate rights to its broadcasts? Does it get the actual broadcast feed while local sports orgs get other cuts? Does the NHL just suck at this? You would think that high-quality highlights of famous moments would be a pretty key thing to stoking interest, but it seems like maybe the NHL only rarely licenses out the opportunity to go digging around in its vaults.
On the other hand, every now and again a high-quality version of an old clip will surface, as it did today - the Blue Jackets Twitter posted a 60FPS version of the famous Rick Nash goal and it's quite nice to look at. Notably, however, they didn't post the full pulled-back broadcast angle, though maybe this was intentional.
There are other examples, there's a high-definition version of the Marek Malik shootout goal in a shootout compilation video somewhere on Youtube, and there exists an HD broadcast of the 2002 Olympic gold medal game where a rebroadcast of it is where this clip comes from (obviously this isn't the NHL, just thought it was relevant).
This just makes me wonder, how in the world is NHL footage dealt with in general? There's no way someone looked at that Datsyuk goal on tape and decided "eh we'll never need this again", presumably it exists somewhere but is sitting in a vault for no one to enjoy ever. Does the NHL retain ultimate rights to its broadcasts? Does it get the actual broadcast feed while local sports orgs get other cuts? Does the NHL just suck at this? You would think that high-quality highlights of famous moments would be a pretty key thing to stoking interest, but it seems like maybe the NHL only rarely licenses out the opportunity to go digging around in its vaults.
