NHL experimenting with increasing tv timeouts by 30 seconds

[Seattle King]

Bettman loves that sweet lucre, he can jam another gambling ad in that spot

 

[Coach Reggie Dunlop]

Capitalism gonna capitalism. No surprise here.

 

[Mike C]

Yuval Harari makes a strong argument that we were better off (or at least more sustainable) as semi-agrarian/nomadic folks, but that’s a whole ‘nother matter. All I know is that there’s a “man” worth $400 billion wondering where all the money went. Hmm. Big mystery there.

That's because he wants all the missing money for his next 12 assholically named test tube children

 

[Sypher04]

Only if we agree that offside reviews will only be done during commercial breaks.

Better yet, let’s just say if you can’t tell it’s offside playing the video back at game speed, then the goal stands.

I’m personally so tired of the offside nitpickery

 

[wolfgaze]

 

[ItWasJustified]

North Americans should love this since your favourite "sport" is on average 63 minutes commercial time.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

 

[Oddbob]

Yeah, that is what we need, longer commercial breaks. All that will happen, is they will indeed increase them by whatever amount and intermissions will magically be the same length. The world won't be happy until there is 60 minutes of commercials and 30 seconds of gameplay and ads literally plastered on 100% of the ice and players tattooing ads on their faces. I fully expect by 2034-35, that players will no longer have names, but will be sponsored names.

Fan Duel wins the 2035 scoring race with 126 pts.

A change no one would even notice in if it wasn’t publicized, but they will bitch about incessantly since it was.

This couldn't be more wrong in the slightest.

 

[PhysicalGraffiti]

They already have commercials built into the games for minor stoppages, and they want the actual commercial break to be even longer? Was that not enough?

Long reviews, more and more commercials, refs continuing to not drop the puck at faceoffs, they're slowing the game down more and more.

Combined with hitting being taken away and a purposeful decrease in fights allowed, the league really wants to kill themselves and decrease interest.

If I wanted a slow and boring sport devoid of physicality, I'd watch the NBA.

 

[KrugAvoy]

They should just do what NASCAR and other racing does and take commercial breaks while game action is still going on at this rate