What I saw grossly disappointed me. A camera focused on one player for the entire game! What rubbish! It has long been going around the blogging circles that Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin are the best things to happen to the NHL in a long time, both are media magnets that do well in promoting the game, but what the heck people! That doesn't mean that they need a camera trained on them the whole game!
One of the biggest disappointments of the game was when the terrific twosome were off the ice, which was three out of four shifts. The camera was trained on such stars as -11 Jordan Staal. Seeing him skate circles around the ice, then lose a puck to Alexander Semin to assist a Federov goal did nothing for me.
In sum, with all the problems broadcasting hockey has, please guys! Don't exacerbate it by taking away everything good about it. If people complain about not seeing the puck, don't make it worse by never showing the puck! Hockey is not a one man game. To see an Ovechkin goal, you need to see the whole play develop. That's most of the fun of watching him play! To train the camera on Crosby means missing one of his 56 assists, he has twice as many assists as goals.
Think about it.
1 comment:
Agreed o great goalie man. Hockey has long been known as the ultimate team sport, so who would watch the game just to see a specific player? Especially when there's a game featuring two of the most star-filled teams in the league? Doesn't make sense. Down with the Player Cam!
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