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AnAceOfKidneys

AnAceOfKidneys

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Please, Sportsnet/NBC, stop the pre game/intermission interviews. The interviewers spew the same questions/statements over and over and the players give the same cliche enriched answers. And I understand why the players are like that. As soon as someone acts like an individual, the media jumps all over them. NOTHING NEW IS GLEANED!

PLEASE, I'd rather you take the extra time from reduced player interviews with more Don Cherry (shudder).
 
I want my team's players using the intermission to recoup, to formulise a game plan, to get pumped for the next period, etc. Last thing I want is for them to lose focus for a canned interview for the camera.
 
Bouncing Bettys said:
I want my team's players using the intermission to recoup, to formulise a game plan, to get pumped for the next period, etc. Last thing I want is for them to lose focus for a canned interview for the camera.
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completely agree. I don't know why/how the NHL corporate marketing drones can't see how stupid a waste of time this is. Coaches' must rip their hair out being forced to surrender their players for meaningless interviews.
 
Couldn't agree more they're pointless, just let the players concentrate on the game and talk to them after.
 
The players are literally professionals raised to be in the spotlight from countless mentors and coaches. Focus is hardly the issue.

Canned responses, however, are pretty boring.
 
I'd be more annoyed as a head coach than a player.

You're trying to formulate plays in your head and focus on the game, and yet you have McGuire talking in your ear
 
Bouncing Bettys said:
I want my team's players using the intermission to recoup, to formulise a game plan, to get pumped for the next period, etc. Last thing I want is for them to lose focus for a canned interview for the camera.
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Some of you guys really think hockey players are neanderthals with the emotional control of a baby. Whether it's needing fighting to release steam and get frustrations out like they're children, or like this thread insinuating that a 1 minute interview at the BEGINNING of a 15 minute intermission will cause them to lose focus.
 
What I can't stand is NBC's mid-period "interviews" with the coaches on the bench, in the middle of the game. That is insane. Invariably, it consists of a mundane question ("How do you bounce back...?") with a predictably mundane answer ("We have to establish a forecheck and get more pucks to the net").

If I were an NHL coach and a TV network tried to get on the bench and interview me in the middle of a period, I'd tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine.

Is this some Bettman-thing where coaches are forced to suffer this indignity on behalf of American network TV?
 
TheSituation said:
Some of you guys really think hockey players are neanderthals with the emotional control of a baby. Whether it's needing fighting to release steam and get frustrations out like they're children, or like this thread insinuating that a 1 minute interview at the BEGINNING of a 15 minute intermission will cause them to lose focus.
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my OP wasn't about player focus, it was about the uselessness of these player/coach interviews. Same canned questions, same canned response. May as well cut to a commercial instead of these cringe worthy interviews.
 
Honestly. Please stop this madness.

The players are nearly always gasping for air while spewing out the same old rehearsed crap we've all heard 1000 times.

They never have any value and are solely meant to be a time-kill. Just roll a talking head and do some analysis reports or something... there's literally no point in wasting the players time, they should be strategizing and getting in the zone.
 
It's always the same recycled, generic responses. I could do with out it, solely because nothing interesting is ever said.
 
You'll never get any worthwhile response from a player before or during a game. He just wants to focus on the game. Post-game is the only time to interview a player.
 
Amen.

Honestly I'd be OK if I never heard another hockey player speak again.

They never say anything of interest. Hell just interview 1 play at the beginning of each year and replay it throughout the season.
 
LarryO said:
You'll never get any worthwhile response from a player before or during a game. He just wants to focus on the game. Post-game is the only time to interview a player.
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Post game interviews are canned just the same.

Tried hard.. need to work on the details. Take care of our own end.
 
190Octane said:
We need these interviews. How else will you be reminded that we need to get pucks in deep, play our game, and skate hard?
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You make a good point. What about "taking care of our own end" and "our fans are great!"? Without these interviews you'd just never know.
 
AnAceOfKidneys said:
Please, Sportsnet/NBC, stop the pre game/intermission interviews. The interviewers spew the same questions/statements over and over and the players give the same cliche enriched answers. And I understand why the players are like that. As soon as someone acts like an individual, the media jumps all over them. NOTHING NEW IS GLEANED!

PLEASE, I'd rather you take the extra time from reduced player interviews with more Don Cherry (shudder).
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This is why I PVR almost everything I watch now, including hockey games. Just fast forward thru the interviews, commercials, and intermissions, can get thru a game in under 2 hours, beautiful.
 
Scott Oake's interviews on CBC/Sportsnet make me laugh. They always take the rough form of (paraphrasing, obviously):

"You guys really sucked in the first. Why did you suck so much and what will you change so you suck less in the second?"
 
McGuillicuddy said:
Scott Oake's interviews on CBC/Sportsnet make me laugh. They always take the rough form of (paraphrasing, obviously):

"You guys really sucked in the first. Why did you suck so much and what will you change so you suck less in the second?"
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Credit where it's due: Oake's pre-game interviews with Todd have been amusing. Oake is decent.
 
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