But without him doing this, we wouldn't know why we were being shown a bear cartoon. So other fans, without warning or clarification, get an offputting and confusing experience when showing the game. At least on Twitter/X, nobody from the Kings' PR team addressed or explained it either.
I'm not sure how many people knew why the cartoons were airing.
I did.
Again... it's an issue with communication and that could have been handled better.
But saying "everything went completely right, and feel free to post questions or insults I'll either answer or ignore" is pretty unsympathetic. And when management ended last year's loss with "we were right there," it emphasizes a seemingly large, disconnected gap between what the Kings organization think is what the customers want and what the customers want.
The insults that I'll ignore was a direct reference to the people that will always accuse me of being a shill... which I get. It was tongue in cheek and no it wasnt sympathetic it was my attempt at humor after a long day.
Once again.... it's an issue of communication.
MOST things in life are about communication.
I almost turned off the stream and went to another site to actually watch the game, but I stayed on it because I WANT the Kings to stream more stuff. But the decisions need improvements on communication and/or execution.
It was an issue of communication. Execution wise everything worked fairly well beyond the audio issue and since I wasn't there in Quebec I can't speak directly too but they did fix it fairly quickly.
Me saying everything went "completely right" is (perhaps) a poor attempt on my part to tone police and try and instill my own (admittedly biased) perspective into the narrative.
Had we simply NOT streamed the game there would have been complaints about it
We chose to stream the game on multiple platforms and to overlay the english audio onto the French TV broadcast.
It was incredibly complicated and took a bunch of work from a bunch of people to pull off and generally speaking I thought it worked fantastically.
So from my perspective it went completely right outside of us not knowing or telling anyone that the first 14 minutes would be a cartoon.
I almost turned off the stream and went to another site to actually watch the game, but I stayed on it because I WANT the Kings to stream more stuff. But the decisions need improvements on communication and/or execution.
Which is a perfect example of why communication is so important and a perfect demonstration of why I wish we had communicated better.