Sunday, October 4, 2009

Did anybody else find the NHL Game Center Live preview a waste?

I signed up for the free preview of NHL GameCenter Live for October 3rd. I had heard some good things about it, and wanted to give it a try. I hadn't gone for it before because I usually get the DirecTV Center Ice package, but was especially curious about the ability to watch multiple games at once.

I tried in the morning, and quickly found out that the games on NHL Network were unavailable. Okay. So, all I could watch was the Cannucks-Avalance game. The nice thing about that was that I was getting the Cannucks announcers, and I like John Shorthouse's style.

I couldn't try it later as I had tickets in the evening for the San Jose Earthquakes. I needed to get ready to go to the game, and leave early enough to get to the game. By the time I got home, all the games were long over.

That makes me think of something else - the Saturday night XM NHL Home Ice coverage. I get in my car after the soccer match, hoping to listen to Ice Cap so I can find out the results from the late games. What do they have? A replay of game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final. While this was a good game, they have played it a lot since then. I'm not looking for someone to keep talking live into the wee hours, but I would like a replay of the final Ice Cap show so those of us away from a computer, away from a TV can find out what happened.

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