2012-13 NHL and Other Hockey Thread [2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs]

[ixcuincle]

[Sticksboi05]

If you want to see OV play, ESPN3 is broadcasting three Moscow Dynamo games this month.

[Buford]

With some cool logos like Hershey. I hope they show some of their games in D.C..

[ixcuincle]

[ixcuincle]

[Sticksboi05]

Hockey season starts in five days!!! Woo!

[pjfootballer]

First 2 weeks of the NHL cancelled. Are these guys stupid or what. Had a lockout in the mid 90s that cancelled alot of games and led to a 48 game season. Then lockout again and led to a cancelled season 8 years ago. Now this. Do they not realize that they are not a sport on the level of the NFL, NBA or MLB and that this is idiotic? Idiots, all of them. Both of them are wrong and I'm not taking sides. The only side I'm on is mine. The fans side.

[SpringfieldSkins]

KHL hockey on ESPN 2 right now. Dynamo Moscow vs whatever team Chara is on.

[skinsfan1523]

NHL continues to be locked out and people continue to not notice, so sad.

[Sticksboi05]

Wooo, hockey begins tomorrow at 7!

[ixcuincle]

Meh, if it's not NHL it doesn't matter

[ixcuincle]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...?sct=nhl_t2_a3

As far as Russian debuts in the United States go, ESPN's opening 2012 broadcast of the Kontinental Hockey League on Tuesday wasn't exactly Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater. The game, shown live on ESPN2 at 1 p.m. Eastern time with a replay at 8, was a dud. Dynamo Moscow topped HC Lev Praha 1-0 on an unmemorable third-period goal by Alex Ovechkin. But give the Worldwide Leader in European hockey (at least for one day) credit for doing something the NHL isn't doing these days: facilitating live coverage of games.

While the play was desultory -- it made a viewer long for an NHL preseason game, which would be unbridled excitement by comparison -- the broadcast was surreal. Not Mark Gastineau-surreal but a funhouse of ad libs, Cold War comedy, and a focus far away from the play on the ice. The announcers (Steve Levy and Barry Melrose) called the game from a voice-over booth at ESPN's Bristol headquarters -- some 4,200 miles away from the action at Prague's O2 Arena -- and their lack of familiarity with some of the KHL's figures provided viewers with memorable moments including this exchange:


Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz28uc9rObN

[Sticksboi05]

Meh, if it's not NHL it doesn't matter

How long have you even cared about the Capitals?

[pjfootballer]

I know Sticks that you are a huge college hockey fan. But some of us aren't and you know I've been a fan of the Caps since the late 70s. I kind of agree that if it isn't NHL, I'm just not interested. I tried to watch the KHL game last night, but seeing the "great 8" wearing a #32 jersey with a bunch of ads on it, didn't do anything for me. I want the NHL. I do have the Charlotte Checkers here, so I can see a AAA live game if I want to.

[Sticksboi05]

I know Sticks that you are a huge college hockey fan. But some of us aren't and you know I've been a fan of the Caps since the late 70s. I kind of agree that if it isn't NHL, I'm just not interested. I tried to watch the KHL game last night, but seeing the "great 8" wearing a #32 jersey with a bunch of ads on it, didn't do anything for me. I want the NHL. I do have the Charlotte Checkers here, so I can see a AAA live game if I want to.

It's not that I expect people to care that much, cause for example I don't care about Maryland basketball, just in a bad mood actually that's it. And instead of whining that there's no hockey, do something about it and find other sources. Cause those clowns ain't settling anything anytime soon.