Tv Coverage Rant thread

Okay, so CBC starts coverage of Russia/Sweden hockey game. Great first period.Suddenly, 3 minutes into the second, they cut to team speed skating, and do not go back to the hockey game once.(If they did go back, it had to be for periods of 30 seconds or less...I channel surfed, trying to find another channel covering the game) Then, they go to ladies skeleton. I appreciate that Canadian athletes were participating in these events, but there were plenty, and I mean plenty of opportunities to go back to the hockey game.Even for short periods would have been nice. Finally, with about 4 minutes left in the third, they did. I missed all 5 goals.

NBC has done well with the hockey coverage so far. The only thing I wish they'd do is put games on multiple channels if more than one is going on at the same time at the two venues.

CBC has to have one of the worst coverages. Seriously, skeleton?? and THE FIRST HEAT???? that's more important than russia-sweden??? awful but hey i didn't expect anything good out of that channel.

What I can't stand about NBC is their complete failure to keep the fans updated when it comes to injuries. I don't think the announcers even mentioned that Rafalski wasn't playing for team USA yesterday, and even if they said that in passing they certainly didn't say what was wrong. Same deal with Elias, the announcers didn't even notice that he wasn't playing today until the third period! There might be others out there, I was only really paying attention to the Devils players, but this is starting to drive me crazy.

CBC has to have one of the worst coverages. Seriously, skeleton?? and THE FIRST HEAT???? that's more important than russia-sweden??? awful but hey i didn't expect anything good out of that channel.

I did, unfortunatly :cry:

I had CBC, French CBC, RDS, TSN, ABC, MSNBC and CNBC but could not find the game on any of them after CBC cut it. Its not like they couldn't have taped delayed something so we could have seen at least some of the hockey in between either.... :madfire:

Well, a lot of people are not strictly hockey fans and do want to see the events that the Canadian athletes are participating in, rather than a Sweden/Russia hockey game. Hell, there are probably a lot of people that aren't even sports fans but will watch the Olympics.

You now feel our WJT pain

Well, a lot of people are not strictly hockey fans and do want to see the events that the Canadian athletes are participating in, rather than a Sweden/Russia hockey game. Hell, there are probably a lot of people that aren't even sports fans but will watch the Olympics.That's all fine and dandy.

I can understand pulling away for the Canadian SF in the speed skating, but did we need to see the NED vs ITA SF? Could that have not waited until the intermission? :madfire:

Okay, so CBC starts coverage of Russia/Sweden hockey game. Great first period.Suddenly, 3 minutes into the second, they cut to team speed skating, and do not go back to the hockey game once.(If they did go back, it had to be for periods of 30 seconds or less...I channel surfed, trying to find another channel covering the game) Then, they go to ladies skeleton. I appreciate that Canadian athletes were participating in these events, but there were plenty, and I mean plenty of opportunities to go back to the hockey game.Even for short periods would have been nice. Finally, with about 4 minutes left in the third, they did. I missed all 5 goals.

That reminds me of the last Olympics, where CBC cut away from an entertaining hockey game (I believe it was Russia-Belarus) to show the 1000th replay of Salei and Pelletier's free skate, something like 3 days after it first happened.

That's all fine and dandy.

I can understand pulling away for the Canadian SF in the speed skating, but did we need to see the NED vs ITA SF? Could that have not waited until the intermission? :madfire:

Thats what I was getting at when I made the "tape delay' comment. That and women's skeleton. Are you kidding me?!

The real kicker is that the speed skating will be replayed later today...probably twice.

Quite impressed with the job MSNBC has done, showing non-stop hockey. The only thing I don't like is how they don't show the full 60 minutes of most games because of other games being played. But I think they've done a good job so far.

That was just pathetic by CBC... frigging first heats of Skeleton. Oooooh exciting!!!! Not. :madfire:

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Quite impressed with the job MSNBC has done, showing non-stop hockey. The only thing I don't like is how they don't show the full 60 minutes of most games because of other games being played. But I think they've done a good job so far.


I wonder if NBC's full coverage has anything to do with that poll we skewed. :sarcasm:

Quite impressed with the job MSNBC has done, showing non-stop hockey. The only thing I don't like is how they don't show the full 60 minutes of most games because of other games being played. But I think they've done a good job so far.

I think they are doing a pretty good job of giving at least a good taste of every game even if they don't show the whole thing. Since there are so many games being played every day it's pretty much the best they can do.

Quite impressed with the job MSNBC has done, showing non-stop hockey. The only thing I don't like is how they don't show the full 60 minutes of most games because of other games being played. But I think they've done a good job so far.

Unfortuantly, the MSNBC coverage appers to not be showing in Canada. Here I was all happy because I have MSNBC on digital cable and thought I would be able to switch up if one channel dropped the ball. :shakehead

Quite impressed with the job MSNBC has done, showing non-stop hockey. The only thing I don't like is how they don't show the full 60 minutes of most games because of other games being played. But I think they've done a good job so far.I agree. Between MSNBC showing non-stop hockey and covering every game, USA Network covering every Team USA game, and local radio coverage here in Denver, it's been heaven.

I think they are doing a pretty good job of giving at least a good taste of every game even if they don't show the whole thing. Since there are so many games being played every day it's pretty much the best they can do.
Yeah, I understand why they can't do it, because there ARE other events going on in the Olympics so they can't have all hockey on each channel. They've done a good job, hope they can continue when they switch over to CNBC this weekend.

At least they showed the entire Russia-Slovakia game yesterday.

However, I expected them to show some of the other big games (like Russia-Sweden) in their entirety.

They had Czechs-Finns on schedule for Saturday when I checked a few days ago, now I don't see it. Not to worry, every Canadian game will be shown 2-3 times!

It doesn't even appear they will be showing all the quarterfinal games (just one or two?)! This could be the most balanced Olympic tournament ever, and there's absolutely no excuse not to show all the QFs. :rant:

CBC, you guys suck! :madfire:

Sorry to burst your bubble...but the Olympics are more than just hockey, especially Non-Canadian hockey games...

If anything, I've been impressed with CBC's coverage of the hockey. They've given it a lot of face time on the TV. It's a huge balancing act.

Sure it was Skeleton. But there are other Canadian athlete we don't hear about ever. This is their stage, their time to represent their country.

Over here you have YLE1, YLE2, YLE24 and Eurosport showing hockey, so far every game has been televised.

What I can't stand about NBC is their complete failure to keep the fans updated when it comes to injuries. I don't think the announcers even mentioned that Rafalski wasn't playing for team USA yesterday, and even if they said that in passing they certainly didn't say what was wrong. Same deal with Elias, the announcers didn't even notice that he wasn't playing today until the third period! There might be others out there, I was only really paying attention to the Devils players, but this is starting to drive me crazy.

Are you kidding me? We have coverage of practically every minute of every single hockey game and you are crying about this. Some people will always find something to complain about. :shakehead

Sorry to burst your bubble...but the Olympics are more than just hockey, especially Non-Canadian hockey games...

If anything, I've been impressed with CBC's coverage of the hockey. They've given it a lot of face time on the TV. It's a huge balancing act.

Sure it was Skeleton. But there are other Canadian athlete we don't hear about ever. This is their stage, their time to represent their country.

I totally agree. We are a hockey community here, thus we care most about hockey. But I can assure you there are countless others who simply watch the Olympics to support Canada, and don't care about Russia-Sweden. These people also want to see the big events, and quite frankly the Russia-Sweden game probably wasn't the biggest event today.

No matter what CBC does, they will alienate part of the population. That's the challenge in broadcasting the Olympics, and it is no different here. Let's be thankful that for the most part, we're all able to watch the most important games in the Olympics.

I forgot my other complaint: Ray Ferraro taking 27 minutes to spit out a sentence.

Pretty disappointed with CBC today, missed all of the great action in a Sweden/Russia game after showing us the first period, and having the whole game scheduled to be shown on their site, only to cut it out 4 minutes into the second.

I will be hunting my satellite for this NBC everyone is raving about, I guess I can't rely on good old Canadian television. Then again, I havn't had much praise for CBC lately anyways, showing a ******* leafs game every saturday night, whether it fits the 7:00 start time or not.

I totally agree. We are a hockey community here, thus we care most about hockey. But I can assure you there are countless others who simply watch the Olympics to support Canada, and don't care about Russia-Sweden. These people also want to see the big events, and quite frankly the Russia-Sweden game probably wasn't the biggest event today.

No matter what CBC does, they will alienate part of the population. That's the challenge in broadcasting the Olympics, and it is no different here. Let's be thankful that for the most part, we're all able to watch the most important games in the Olympics.

Well if CBC didn't bogart the exclusive rights to the Olympics, then we could probably see more games. I am sure Sportsnet would be interested in airing the hockey games. It'd get better ratings then the usual crap SN airs at 6 in the morning.

Pretty disappointed with CBC today, missed all of the great action in a Sweden/Russia game after showing us the first period, and having the whole game scheduled to be shown on their site, only to cut it out 4 minutes into the second.

I will be hunting my satellite for this NBC everyone is raving about, I guess I can't rely on good old Canadian television. Then again, I havn't had much praise for CBC lately anyways, showing a ******* leafs game every saturday night, whether it fits the 7:00 start time or not.

Just a heads up: if you are looking for hockey coverage on your satellite, you do NOT want NBC, you want MSNBC. It's NBC's cable news channel and it's where most of the hockey is being shown. some games are also on the USA Network, which is another NBC subsidiary.

" Not to worry, every Canadian game will be shown 2-3 times! "

ya - at midnight

So if you have RDS, they're showing the Sweden vs Russia game now.
2nd period, Kovalev just scored...

This is why NHL'ers shouldn't be at the olympics. They overshadow all the real amateur athletes. Go back to the way it was....I'd rather watch Canada win bronze and two silvers then Russia Sweden and I am the biggest hockey fan.

Olympics are for the best athletes in the world, right? Right. Why shouldn't NHL'ers be allowed to represent their country?

Are you kidding me? We have coverage of practically every minute of every single hockey game and you are crying about this. Some people will always find something to complain about. :shakeheadWell said.

Olympics are for the best athletes in the world, right? Right. Why shouldn't NHL'ers be allowed to represent their country?
Best amateur athletes

Sure it was Skeleton. But there are other Canadian athlete we don't hear about ever. This is their stage, their time to represent their country.

They don't wanna be on TV. People will find out the government is paying them to go tobogganing, for cryin' out loud. Then after paying for their multiple trips to fabulous winter resorts, we taxpayers have to watch them slide down their icy tube while we miss a good hockey game. Luge is just as stupid, but at least they crash once in a while.

They don't wanna be on TV. People will find out the government is paying them to go tobogganing, for cryin' out loud. Then after paying for their multiple trips to fabulous winter resorts, we taxpayers have to watch them slide down their icy tube while we miss a good hockey game. Luge is just as stupid, but at least they crash once in a while.
Go slide off a cliff bud. I may even fund you to do it.

Best amateur athletes

This myth again? Very few sports in the Olympics have true amateurs. Most of them are either outright proffesionals (such as the skiiers) or they get sponsorship cash. Not being a member of a North American "big 4" sports league does not automatically mean you are an amateur.

NBC has 4 channels devoted to this. CBC has one

This is another reason why we should never allow the CBC to get another Olympics. Thank god for CTV/Sportsnet next time

CBC has to have one of the worst coverages. Seriously, skeleton?? and THE FIRST HEAT???? that's more important than russia-sweden??? awful but hey i didn't expect anything good out of that channel.

Canadian athletes are more important than Russian or Swedish athletes to the average Canadian...

What do you expect?

I for one am getting really sick of listening to Bob Cole and Harry Neale, those dinosaurs are so tedious to listen to. Jim Hughson and *sigh* Greg Millen are way more entertaining , and much more insightful.

Best amateur athletes

Get real, all the top athletes in ski jumping, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing etc. are full-time professional athletes.

Pay attention dude.

Are you kidding me? We have coverage of practically every minute of every single hockey game and you are crying about this. Some people will always find something to complain about. :shakehead

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NBC's coverage has been above and beyond anything I expected. I love the Universal HD feed.

So if you have RDS, they're showing the Sweden vs Russia game now.
2nd period, Kovalev just scored...

Unfortunatly, I didn't see your post until about 10 minutes ago. End result? I ran downstairs, and...guess what, caught the last five minutes of the third period. So I saw....about 90 extra seconds.

Now, not only did I miss all the goals, I've got that Alanis Morrisette song "Isn't it ironic?" stuck in my head. Oh well, RDS is doing some more Olympic highlights later....maybe I'll see it then...

Canadian athletes are more important than Russian or Swedish athletes to the average Canadian...

What do you expect?

I disagree with this. Hockey is our national sport and I'm pretty sure most people would rather watch a good hockey game, even if Canada isn't playing than stuff like figure skating or luge.

I say just show the hockey games and if Canada does well in some other event show it on delay. Imo more people are interested in hockey than watching the 1st heat of the 5000m speed skating competition.

Sorry to burst your bubble...but the Olympics are more than just hockey, especially Non-Canadian hockey games...

If anything, I've been impressed with CBC's coverage of the hockey. They've given it a lot of face time on the TV. It's a huge balancing act.

Sure it was Skeleton. But there are other Canadian athlete we don't hear about ever. This is their stage, their time to represent their country.

Then let some other channel like NHL centre ice carry the games in their entirety. I've got no problem with them showing luge, I just won't watch it!

I for one am getting really sick of listening to Bob Cole and Harry Neale, those dinosaurs are so tedious to listen to. Jim Hughson and *sigh* Greg Millen are way more entertaining , and much more insightful.

I agree, they are terrible at covering international games. There was absolutley zero excitement in his voice, even during the great scoring chances.

CBC's coverage SUCKS!

I am totally dissapointed at some of the posts in this thread. Hockey is one sport in the olympics. These athletes have worked their butt off for the last 4 years to show what they can do. CBC has done an excellent job at making sure that all athletes representing the maple leaf get some kind of coverage. To the families and friends of these athletes who couldnt make it to the games, it means a lot (i know this) To those who are Canadian and are watching CBC the answer is simple, a skeleton competition with a canadian being represented is MUCH more important then a russia sweden hockey game. Those who said it was the "1st heat", should know their is only 2 heats in the skeleton and also the russia sweden game was a "round robin" game so it means even less.

Come on guys, gotta respect the great coverage of the Olympics

I disagree with this. Hockey is our national sport and I'm pretty sure most people would rather watch a good hockey game, even if Canada isn't playing than stuff like figure skating or luge.

Most hockey fans, yes. Most people, probably not. Especially when you mention figure skating which has a huge following.

I was glad to see that I missed the third period to watch our male figure skaters. I mean really, is that not why everyone watches the winter olympics?
But I liked how on the power play they showed the whole play from a camera behind the net. I think that's a really good idea, it makes the game a lot more intense.

I don't mind CBC showing when our athletes win two silver medals and a bronze in one sitting, going on one more bronze. :clap:

I don't mind CBC showing when our athletes win two silver medals and a bronze in one sitting, going on one more bronze. :clap:

What about the figure skaters who they say before they even skate "This guy is good, but he's known for making huge mistakes" which translates to "He doesn't stand a chance". Then why am I watching him instead of hockey?

i lived in the States for the last Olympics, and MSNBC coverage was GREAT! virtually every game live and complete.

i pay for digital cable up here which includes MSNBC, and the CBC has blocked it out. that's my outrage. broadcast what you choose on CBC, but do not deny the rest of us coverage that is happeneing elsewhere. and that we've paid for.

thanks for that CBC link above. i used it, hope others do too. flood em and maybe they'll get the TSN synched in before this happens for the rest of the tournament.

I don't have a problem with CBC switching to other competitions involving Canadians. Not having more than one channel to broadcast these games is what I have a problem with. Does anybody else find it sad that according to the people here, Americans get to see every hockey game, Europeans get to see every hockey game, but Canadians, who claim hockey as their national pasttime, do not.

Are you kidding me? We have coverage of practically every minute of every single hockey game and you are crying about this. Some people will always find something to complain about. :shakehead
Overall, I agree, their coverage has been great (still can't stand McGuire, but I'll let that slide). I was thrilled to find out they were going to show all the hockey games (live, too!). However, this is the TV coverage rant thread, and my pet peeve with the coverage was that with almost 12 hours of hockey coverage today, they couldn't find a few minutes in there to give us some injury updates.

The day is over and I am infuriated further. Is CBC blocking TSN from showing extra hockey? Are TSN CBC's toy and not a partner? Anyone in the know here? I was expecting nothing less than every hockey game minus the overlapping parts much like most of the rest of the free world are getting. Hard to stomach after watching Emanuelle Can'tdu falling all over the place. Watched the Dutch go in a heap while racing Italy!! Teamskating!! Brutal. I sent my complaint in, it is all a person can do.

I love NBC's coverage. Doc, JD, and Pierre (I don't care what you all say, I enjoy "Baldy" as my 7-year old brother calls him) are great. Dave Strader, Brian Hayward and Joe Micheletti have been good.

Only problem, Kenny Albert. He's just not good on TV. Where is Cuthbert?? Isn't he an NHL On NBC guy? He seems to be the only one who's not there.

Ron Burgundy and Chicken Parm rule the studio.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Both USA games this weekend are on the NBC mothership. In fact, NBC gave the US Hockey Team the 10:30 AM-1:00 PM timeslot on Sunday and will program nothing else in between or interrupting it.

The USA coverage of hockey has been great, meaning they are showing all games. The quality of the commentators leaves much to be desired. Total homers, and I don't mean just USA, but NA. USA and Canada is all they care about, and they are constantly calling players by the wrong names. Today they interviewed 6 Canadians, in between periods and post game, but not a single German. Most of the time they aren't even calling the game but talking about peripheral crap. They will go to a commercial after a penalty is called and never tell you who took the penalty. I could go on for days with these petty complaints, but from what I've read around here we Americans are getting the best deal.

2 days of 12+ hours of hockey coverage=over analysis

I love NBC's coverage. Doc, JD, and Pierre (I don't care what you all say, I enjoy "Baldy" as my 7-year old brother calls him) are great.I agree completely. Emrick, in particular, has done sensational play-by-play as usual. His call is so exciting.


Where is Cuthbert?? Isn't he an NHL On NBC guy? He seems to be the only one who's not there.I've wondered the same thing. He has been fantastic on the NBC weekend games. I would love to hear him on some of these.


PROGRAMMING NOTE: Both USA games this weekend are on the NBC mothership. In fact, NBC gave the US Hockey Team the 10:30 AM-1:00 PM timeslot on Sunday and will program nothing else in between or interrupting it.Outstanding. More kudos to NBC. :clap:

I don't have a problem with CBC switching to other competitions involving Canadians. Not having more than one channel to broadcast these games is what I have a problem with. Does anybody else find it sad that according to the people here, Americans get to see every hockey game, Europeans get to see every hockey game, but Canadians, who claim hockey as their national pasttime, do not.

Wait, CBC only has one channel? I was under the impression that like the government funded national tv station's in Finland and Sweden, they'd have 2 channels.

Best amateur athletes
Actually, we've already got a tournament for amateurs. It's called the World Junior Hockey Championships, if you haven't noticed already.

Well, there's always that option of sending 40-year-old guys who play after work to the Olympics. Must be the "best amateur athletes" that the world's got.

What about the figure skaters who they say before they even skate "This guy is good, but he's known for making huge mistakes" which translates to "He doesn't stand a chance". Then why am I watching him instead of hockey?
Err, there's more to the Olympics than just winning medals. It's the sportsmanship and participation that comes before winning. It's too bad you feel that way, but I'm sure there are people out there that don't and just wants to watch our Canadian athletes compete out there and see how they stack up for the next Olympics.

If the Olympics were just about winning, that would undermine the whole purpose of the Olympics.

The CBC should be showing as wide a variety of different events as it can, I have no problem with them showing Luge, skating or whatever is going on.

The unfortunate thing is that the CBC didn't let TSN broadcast the Sweden - Russia game in its entirety. Another annoyance is that the CBC's exclusive rights allow it to block the CNBC and MSNBC hockey coverage in Canada.

TSN is airing five of the Men's Olympic hockey games, but only USA-SVK will be an "elite seven" head to head game. I'm sure TSN would have loved to broadcast the game today.

Once again our government is dictating what we can watch.
Too bad!!!

The CBC should be showing as wide a variety of different events as it can, I have no problem with them showing Luge, skating or whatever is going on.

The unfortunate thing is that the CBC didn't let TSN broadcast the Sweden - Russia game in its entirety. Another annoyance is that the CBC's exclusive rights allow it to block the CNBC and MSNBC hockey coverage in Canada.

TSN is airing five of the Men's Olympic hockey games, but only USA-SVK will be an "elite seven" head to head game. I'm sure TSN would have loved to broadcast the game today.

Once again our government is dictating what we can watch.
Too bad!!!


I am sick about the money fights with the big TV stations! Sportsnet is reduced to showing video stills! This is ridiculous!

That was just pathetic by CBC... frigging first heats of Skeleton. Oooooh exciting!!!! Not. :madfire:

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Everybody please send your comments. I know that CBC will do this again for future games and cut to other events. It's frustrating when you're waching a game like Swe vs Rus and then they show speed skating all of a sudden!

I disagree with this. Hockey is our national sport and I'm pretty sure most people would rather watch a good hockey game, even if Canada isn't playing than stuff like figure skating or luge.

I say just show the hockey games and if Canada does well in some other event show it on delay. Imo more people are interested in hockey than watching the 1st heat of the 5000m speed skating competition.
No way. I like hockey and all but the Olympics only come every 4 years and I want to see other Canadian athletes perform. It's the only time we really see them. Can't you people appreciate other sports?!?

What about the figure skaters who they say before they even skate "This guy is good, but he's known for making huge mistakes" which translates to "He doesn't stand a chance". Then why am I watching him instead of hockey?
Because that's when you could see the amazing performance of Evgeni Plushenko and a very nice skate from Jeff Buttle who was 6th after the short program and went up to 3rd. Gosh, you people are such whiners and closed minded. I for one am happy that I can see different sports.

Wait, CBC only has one channel? I was under the impression that like the government funded national tv station's in Finland and Sweden, they'd have 2 channels.
Well, we have CBC and Radio-Canada, that's two channels but one's in English, the other one's in French so basically, both show pretty much the same thing of the games. Then there's the two only news channels also in English and French. So four in total.

Everybody please send your comments. I know that CBC will do this again for future games and cut to other events. It's frustrating when you're waching a game like Swe vs Rus and then they show speed skating all of a sudden!
Yes, I will send them my comments and will thank them for showing the speedskating event. Those were exciting races and it was nice seeing many different athletes perform.

Quite impressed with the job MSNBC has done, showing non-stop hockey. The only thing I don't like is how they don't show the full 60 minutes of most games because of other games being played. But I think they've done a good job so far.


I agree. I think it's great that between them and USA I can catch all the games (so much for getting any work on the LSAT done...). Agree with the gripe about injuries, but I don't think it's been TOO bad and I feel like it's been outweighed by the coverage they've had. Ferraro is one of my favorite analysts and I think he and Clement have been doing a pretty good job, all things considered.

The USA coverage of hockey has been great, meaning they are showing all games. The quality of the commentators leaves much to be desired. Total homers, and I don't mean just USA, but NA. USA and Canada is all they care about, and they are constantly calling players by the wrong names. Today they interviewed 6 Canadians, in between periods and post game, but not a single German. Most of the time they aren't even calling the game but talking about peripheral crap. They will go to a commercial after a penalty is called and never tell you who took the penalty. I could go on for days with these petty complaints, but from what I've read around here we Americans are getting the best deal.

2 days of 12+ hours of hockey coverage=over analysis


While I agree to an extent, they're also playing to their target audience. Most of the people watching are casual fans at best who don't really care one way or the other what Archie Irbe or MArcel Goc have to say (which is unfortunate). But at the same time, they've also been willing to give credit where is due (Slovakia's play so far, Russia's win over Sweden, the heart Italy showed in coming out intent on taking it to Canada).

By the same token, they've also been fair in their assessment of the US's performance so far. Criticizing a number of missed chances and passive play against Kazakhstan, the Latvia game (although I can't really say I'm that upset about that one, as a US fan. I've always liked Archie a lot and wish him the best. Can't wait to see him against Russia, and with all due respect to the Russian fans on here, I'm hoping one final upset against you guys as kind of a swan song for the little guy with the god awful pads).

Sure it was Skeleton. But there are other Canadian athlete we don't hear about ever. This is their stage, their time to represent their country.

noone cares about them

all skeleton is is reverse-luge

These people also want to see the big events, and quite frankly the Russia-Sweden game probably wasn't the biggest event today.


Ovechkin vs. Sundin definately had appeal to Canadian viewers, especially those in Ontario

I will be hunting my satellite for this NBC everyone is raving about, I guess I can't rely on good old Canadian television. Then again, I havn't had much praise for CBC lately anyways, showing a ******* leafs game every saturday night, whether it fits the 7:00 start time or not.

I cant find NBC anywhere on my satellite...what gives?

Best amateur athletes

it isnt the best amature athletes, its the best athletes. period.

get with the program buddy, what year are you from?

This myth again? Very few sports in the Olympics have true amateurs. Most of them are either outright proffesionals (such as the skiiers) or they get sponsorship cash. Not being a member of a North American "big 4" sports league does not automatically mean you are an amateur.
:clap:

Actually, we've already got a tournament for amateurs. It's called the World Junior Hockey Championships, if you haven't noticed already.


Those kid's by and large arent amature either. All non-college kids are considered pro players and they all get paid in some capacity

I am sick about the money fights with the big TV stations! Sportsnet is reduced to showing video stills! This is ridiculous!
:biglaugh::clap: +1

Ovechkin vs. Sundin definately had appeal to Canadian hockey fans, especially those in Ontario

Fixed it for you.

What I can't stand about NBC is their complete failure to keep the fans updated when it comes to injuries. I don't think the announcers even mentioned that Rafalski wasn't playing for team USA yesterday, and even if they said that in passing they certainly didn't say what was wrong. Same deal with Elias, the announcers didn't even notice that he wasn't playing today until the third period! There might be others out there, I was only really paying attention to the Devils players, but this is starting to drive me crazy.Most of you people don’t realize how lucky you are. The coverage in Europe is awful.
Eurosport for example yesterday showed absolutely nothing out of 6 games for what I know! :madfire:
For the quarters 150min or so are scheduled in the evening. That’s all. :madfire:
And don’t get me started over the Italian national TV (RAI). It’s an embarassment beyond belief. I am confident it is the national tv dedicating less time to the Olympics in Europe! (let alone to hockey: nothing to be found aside from Italy games, not even highlights! :soap: )

RAI YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are a shame for a whole country!!

But what drives me MAD even more is they don’t show any delayed games along the night that people interested could record. How much would it cost to you Eurosport showing on one of your three ****ing channels the hockey games you didn’t show during the day!?? (almost all of them) I am livid. :rant:
And to make things worse, my ADSL connection is temporarily down so I can’t watch through those Dutch streamings! :banghead:
For what I know there is only one channel in Europe that is doing GREAT showing hockey and it is German ARD Einsfestival. But of course it’s on ASTRA satellite and not on HOTBIRD, the one I get. :cry: (and that channel is not available everywhere in Germany either, judging from Germangirl complaints)

Strike me down as not being able to watch anything. I had to suffer through figure skating yesterday until I gave up and realised that they wouldn't show any hockey anyway :cry:

In all I've seen two periods of Switzerland - Czech republic and one period of the US - Latvia...