How did you watch hockey differently in the past?

[VanIslander]

Do you still watch hockey on TV? On a computer?

I now watch exclusively on my phone.

My most productive years on HfBoards were pre-smartphone (for me late '17, dumped laptop and tv by '19).

I loved having a game on tv and feet up typing away on Hfboards.

Back in uni i had to settle for Saturday nights on the dorm's big screen plus sports talk radio, game streams on radio and newspapers.

When young we had two channels and CBC was basically just hockey and news.

I can't imagine growing up with ESPN the decade after my youth, or being able to watch any game any time as a teen this century!

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[Johnny Engine]

My dad built a barn sized building across the street from our house for various purposes, and there was a tiny rabbit eared TV (smaller than microwave oven!) in the upstairs. On Saturdays as a kid, I'd often head over to the barn to watch the west coast game and not wake up anyone else - the Leafs or Habs could be family viewing in the evening, but most adults with jobs and responsibilities in the Newfoundland time zone aren't waiting around for the Canucks. And there was a pullout couch up there and I'd often just crash after watching that.

I think I had forgotten that before this thread came about.

 

[JMCx4]

Mobile phone hockey watching is pretty much my last resort these days; I can't follow the play consistently & it's ergonomically clumsy. I'm watching an NCAA DI men's game tonight via an OTA broadcast & antenna connection to my smart-capable television. Earlier today I watched a PWHL game on YouTube via wifi & my smart TV. But in the last few years my primary remote hockey watching has been from streams either cast via my mobie phone or home wi-fi connected to my smart TV. Each of those video media feeds aren't much different (except for the picture quality) from when I watched locally broadcast games on my family's tube TV with an antenna feed starting in the late 1960s. But TBH, I'd still rather follow a hockey game's action via radio with an intelligent & talented PbP announcer. There are too many visual distractions in 21st C hockey media productions that diminish the entertainment quality of the game for me.