NHL experimenting with increasing tv timeouts by 30 seconds

[Legionnaire11]

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

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Misleading. Much of the time spent on player/crowd/coach/replay shots is part of the game. Only people with a negative agenda, who wouldn't watch the NFL anyway, purposely misrepresent an NFL game as taking place solely within the snap and the whistle. It honestly reflects poorly on an individual's intelligence if they say they cannot watch a broadcast without constant "action". But really they just hate the NFL for a number of other reasons.

 

[Jerzey Devil]

Fine, then get rid of the trapezoid and icing to offset the downtime.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

How about they blow the whistle after 5 seconds of no puck movement in those scrums behind the net and along the boards too

They can change a lot of stuff but having a coaches challenge take more than a couple minutes means at that point they are looking for a way to call back the goal.

If you can't determine if a goal is indeed a goal within 30 seconds then the call on the ice should stand.

 

[ElysiumAB]

They already do in screen ads during icings. Scum bags.

 

[ElysiumAB]

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

Commercial breaks are 90 seconds, you can fast forward them by fast forwarding on most cable box remotes 3 times. Works exactly to the next face off.

You think no one will notice that now just lands them at another commercial?

 

[Oddbob]

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.

This Ford F-150 commercial brought to you by Adidas.

 

[SomeDude]

I can’t wait until the announcers are replaced by just constant in game ads that run the entire duration of all contests.

 

[Mike C]

Commercial breaks are 90 seconds, you can fast forward them by fast forwarding on most cable box remotes 3 times. Works exactly to the next face off.

You think no one will notice that now just lands them at another commercial?

This commercial is brought to you by....

I can’t wait until the announcers are replaced by just constant in game ads that run the entire duration of all contests.

Yeah man, I hate those ESPN hacks too!

 

[HockeyVirus]

I can’t wait until the announcers are replaced by just constant in game ads that run the entire duration of all contests.

Replace player names with their sponsor.

Ford moves the puck up to Taco Bell. Bell over to McDonalds a save and buried by Burger King!! Fast food connection line strikes again.

Shutouts are now called Dunkin doughnuts

 

[SnowStorm]

I can barely stomach watching hockey on TV thanks to these trash commercials.

I've gotten to where I usually record games and watch after the fact. Fast forwarding through intermissions and commercials saves me an hour for other things.

 

[ijuka]

I'm fine with this, but only if they also adapt the 3-2-1-0 point system they're also experimenting with in this tournament.

If a regulation win was worth 3 points and securing a draw was only worth 1 point, it would make teams more motivated to play for a win instead of just securing the point. And it just makes more sense to have a pool of 3 points consistently that get allocated differently depending on game outcomes, instead of some games being worth 2 points and others 3 points completely arbitrarily.

 

[Deadpool8812]

Can Dallas decline like they have with the jersey advertisement? Our franchise will not stoop to these pathetic sell out levels.

Yeah, just give it time.

 

[SPF6ty9]

Hate that we're at the point with sports where decisions are being made based on "is the money we get out of this, worth the slight discomfort it causes?" Rather than "lets make a better product, and that should generate more money".

 

[PB37]

I don't see the big deal.

 

[digmor crusher]

Of course they are, moarrrr ads. Advertising ruins everything, some programs are unwatchable because of them. Idiots. Thank god I can pvr everything to fwd thru ads. The day I can't do that is the day I stop watching.

 

[Nut Upstrom]

If they are experimenting with it that means they are going to do it. Nothing short of fans closing their wallets on the league will keep the NHL from chasing the $$$ no matter if it is bad for the game or the culture. This gambling take over is exhibit A.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

I'll just push the 30s skip button 5 times instead of 4. Games are unbearable to watch live

 

[SirloinUB]

I’d prefer to see them do the exact opposite

 

[Bandit]

I'm just shocked they're even considering shortening the intermission.

 

[Three On Zero]

Money, Money, Money!!!

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

I’m increasingly convinced that the league doesn’t actually like hockey

 

[NikolaiCakebreaker]

Fig Newton ads on visors next year.

 

[Romang67]

Thank goodness. Commercial breaks did not completely take me out of the game when they were this short.

Remember how helmet and jersey ads were only supposed to be a temporary solution because of the loss of revenue during CoVID?

Remember how Bettman said he would fight tooth and nail before NHL jerseys had ads on them?


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I don't see the issue here. He beat both the tooth and the nail, and as the victor, got to decide to make more money for the owners.

 

[varsaku]

I don't see the big deal.

You know this won't be the end. They will constantly look for ways to squeeze in more revenue generating opportunities. The ads on helmets were supposed to be temporary COVID Band-Aid to help offset losses but they ended up staying. You reach a tipping point when it becomes too much for people to get engaged when you are constantly being shown advertisements at every given opportunity.

Of course they are, moarrrr ads. Advertising ruins everything, some programs are unwatchable because of them. Idiots. Thank god I can pvr everything to fwd thru ads. The day I can't do that is the day I stop watching.

I mostly start games 30 mins late so that i can fast forward through intermissions and commercials. I eventually catch up to the live feed at some point in the 3rd period.

 

[PB37]

You know this won't be the end. They will constantly look for ways to squeeze in more revenue generating opportunities. The ads on helmets were supposed to be temporary COVID Band-Aid to help offset losses but they ended up staying. You reach a tipping point when it becomes too much for people to get engaged when you are constantly being shown advertisements at every given opportunity.

I mostly start games 30 mins late so that i can fast forward through intermissions and commercials. I eventually catch up to the live feed at some point in the 3rd period.

Ads don't bother me.