We Deserve the NHL Equivalent of the ManningCast
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HockeyVirus
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What you are describing is the job of the color commentator lol
Amorgus
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I want the Voracekcast. Dude never had a filter and if someone deserved blasting, he just called them out.
ponder719
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Can we find two or three players with equivalent personality and rapport?
Voracek's a pretty good call, but most hockey players have the personality of the playing surface they frequent.
Voracek's a pretty good call, but most hockey players have the personality of the playing surface they frequent.
KirkAlbuquerque
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miscs75
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I’m all for it. I’d rather them push for atleast an equivalent of HNIC for the states where we get one night a week with 2-3 national feed games and create some spotlight. Either on ESPN/ESPN2/TNT or any major network that isn’t a streaming service.
Watched Messier and Subban do it. Theyve been great.
Would I watch all the time if they were given their own show? Unlikey.
That's what I was thinking....the people we are listening to on TV have been there and played the game.....not 100% of them, but a lot of them have and that's the credentials used to at least get the interview for their job
GKJ
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Didn’t TNT do this a few times last year? The problem is doing it will take viewers away from the actual broadcast, which it’s good for the NHL. It’s fine for the NFL because, as usual, they play by different rules.
The Gr8 Dane
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Yeah have McDavid and Crosby commentate so nobody in the world can know who they are
SomeDude
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The Mannings are unique because they have the personality to do it but also have Super Bowl winning pedigrees and one of them is an all time great to give them legitimacy.
I don’t know any NHL players that could fit that mold. Most of the guys with personality weren’t that great and the great players mostly have no personality.
I don’t know any NHL players that could fit that mold. Most of the guys with personality weren’t that great and the great players mostly have no personality.
Terry Yake
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you can only say "get pucks deep" so many times
there just aren't many NHL'ers out there with actual personalities. not to mention the NHL simply isn't popular enough to warrant an entire separate broadcast
there just aren't many NHL'ers out there with actual personalities. not to mention the NHL simply isn't popular enough to warrant an entire separate broadcast
Oilslick941611
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Hockey players have the personality of wet cardboard. Football is full of personality.
maybe in 20 years there we can watch the Quinn brothers awkwardly and stoically talk about a game as if they've met each other before filming. Full of awkward silences and cliche phrases "y'obviously, get pucks deep, play a full 60 and help the goalie out"
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John Price
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I get what you are saying, but I think hockey is just too fast paced of a game for there to be an "equivalent" to the Manning-cast; football is slow with lots of time between plays (the reason I stopped watching it 5+ years ago).
While I agree that there can be more behind the scenes insights and personality brought to the broadcast booth; and more technical "John Madden" style analysis to help fans understand the nuance, strategy, assignments, etc of the game (that would require a really intimate knowledge of each team's playing style/strategy).
One alternative streaming cast I would like to see is a "total ice" view that is home team based (for me the Avalanche, for example) where I get more insight into where everyone is on the ice (not just the camera following the puck). To truly grow the game in markets like the US where hockey isn't a primary sport there needs to be better education/understanding of the game.
Someone like me who was introduced to the sport when the Avs showed up, it's been a near 30 year journey in adulthood to watch and learn, then to play the game to be able to really understand it better. It's like an all-or-nothing proposition; not everyone can turn their life over to hunt out that type of information; it shouldn't be a closely guarded secret.
Think about watching rugby, cricket, some obscure but obviously popular and entertaining sport in another country. You can be entertained but you would only get obscure information on what is really going on unless you had access to highly knowledgeable coaches, etc.
What John Madden did on his broadcasts was a multiplying effect for the true knowledge of how football plays and players were expected to perform; now it is so prevelant and the lexicon has grown tremendously because of it. Hockey has so little of that in a broad sense.
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Gimme Jack Edwards and Leah Hextall and I'm in
But ...the NFL season is only 17 games and Manningcast is just done on Primetime MNF games, like 10 times a year. And football games frequently come down to the final drive.
With hockey there's too many games and games don't come down to the wire as often as this. Wouldn’t work
But ...the NFL season is only 17 games and Manningcast is just done on Primetime MNF games, like 10 times a year. And football games frequently come down to the final drive.
With hockey there's too many games and games don't come down to the wire as often as this. Wouldn’t work
No Fun Shogun
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The problem is that most hockey players are boring. Maybe get two or three goalies together to chat, and you could have something interesting.
But you can't really downplay the fact that football is just better suited for commentary like that due to the clear breakages in play, ease of responding to replays, and not missing beats in the action. Meanwhile, a hockey version would be a couple guys talking about the one time they had to push a moose off the road to let their junior bus pass outside Medicine Hat and oh wait, someone scored?
But you can't really downplay the fact that football is just better suited for commentary like that due to the clear breakages in play, ease of responding to replays, and not missing beats in the action. Meanwhile, a hockey version would be a couple guys talking about the one time they had to push a moose off the road to let their junior bus pass outside Medicine Hat and oh wait, someone scored?
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It can't happen in hockey. Football is a a 5-10s burst of activity and then 30-40s of replays that can be analyzed and discussed. Not enough dead time to be able to bullshit over.
miscs75
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Not specifically HNIC but a weekly stream like it. Just something to get games consistently on the national feed and get some new viewers because it’s on a major network and not OLN/some streaming service. If the other 3 major sports can do it, the NHL should be able to as well.
It would probably only be fun for Ducks fans, but Bieksa/Getzlaf with occasional Kesler appearances would be hilarious
