Need more hockey? Amazon Prime has Monday Night Hockey

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Posted by Muffaraw Joe
September 24, 2024 8:26 pm
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Amazon has gone the distance in this Primetime hockey broadcasts, some of the analysts and hosts include notable broadcasters and former players.

"Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024-25 NHL season in Canada, at no extra cost to Prime members. Prime Monday Night Hockey will feature an all-star cast lead by veteran play-by-play announcer John Forslund, alongside analysts Jody ShelleyThomas Hickey, and Shane Hnidy. Anchoring the Prime Monday Night sports desk all from on-site will be Adnan VirkAndi Petrillo, analyst Blake Bolden, and a mix of local guests throughout the season. Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier will be a contributor throughout the season both on the desk and with vignettes."







Here is more about the launch in a few weeks on Thanksgiving Monday. I worry if it is overkill for hockey, it will be interesting to see the numbers.





https://www.nhl.com/news/prime-video-announces-talent-for-monday-night-hockey-coast-to-coast#:~:text=Prime%20Monday%20Night%20Hockey%20and%20NHL%20Coast%20to%20Coast%20join,all%20at%20different%20stages%20of



 


The world would be so good if it weren't for some people...
 
Posted by mace
September 25, 2024 8:10 am
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The only names on that list I recognize are Messier and Petrillo.

 
Posted by cash
September 25, 2024 6:32 pm
#3

mace wrote:

The only names on that list I recognize are Messier and Petrillo.

I was expecting some bigger names.

 
Posted by betaylored
September 25, 2024 7:12 pm
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cash wrote:

mace wrote:

The only names on that list I recognize are Messier and Petrillo.

I was expecting some bigger names.

Probably it's a case of bigger names = bigger salaries but I get what you mean cash, to me it feels like a couple of hopefully talented and ready for Prime time farm team players being called up to the big league plus Messier and Petrillo.

Where's Jeff Marek when you need him. He'd be perfect for this.

There's a good number of behind the scenes shows about various NHL teams over on YouTube, featuring the Penguins etc.  right from training camp onwards.

 
Posted by RadioActive
October 11, 2024 10:16 am
#5

A Toronto native's passion for sports has provided an unlikely path to covering major league events on TV, including for ESPN. And now his career takes another turn. He'll be front and centre on Amazon Prime's Monday Night NHL games.

Prime Monday Night Hockey job a homecoming for Canadian broadcaster Adnan Virk

 
Posted by cash
October 21, 2024 4:41 pm
#6

So, tonight's Leafs game won't be on Sportsnet or TSN. Some people won't be happy. 

 
Posted by MJ Vancouver
October 21, 2024 4:58 pm
#7

cash wrote:

So, tonight's Leafs game won't be on Sportsnet or TSN. Some people won't be happy. 

I remember the days when some Leafs games weren’t on either of those channels or CBC - they were on the premium Leafs TV. That cost extra but sports bars carried it so I’d go out to watch those games.

 
Posted by Walter
October 21, 2024 6:09 pm
#8

Don't watch the Leafs.  Where they appear is of no importance.  They lost me after the Ballard years.

 
Posted by Ale Ont
October 21, 2024 7:46 pm
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Does anyone remember when some Leafs games were NOT televised.

 
Posted by Chrisphen
October 21, 2024 8:25 pm
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Ale Ont wrote:

Does anyone remember when some Leafs games were NOT televised.

No, but hope springs eternal.
 

 
Posted by newsguy1
October 21, 2024 8:39 pm
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Remember this amusing little incident as male hockey players terrorize a woman with PTSD in the dead of night?

That was so funny. Auston Matthews, Toronto’s 22-year-old center, has a pretrial conference scheduled for Wednesday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, related to a strange incident alleged to have taken place in a condominium complex at 2 a.m. back in May. Matthews, who may have been intoxicated at the time, is accused of subjecting a befuddled security person to quite the rude-but-"safe-for-daytime-television display."

According to the police report, Matthews and a few of his buddies left his condo complex around 11 p.m. on the evening of May 25, 2019. Approximately three hours later, around 2 a.m., as the complex’s security guard “sat in her vehicle as she normally does to complete some paperwork,” she was interrupted by Matthews and his friends allegedly tugging on the car’s door handle, as if in an attempt to enter the vehicle. This was a very bad idea, before you even get to the part where the security guard is “a military vet with sever [sic] PTSD.”

Matthews and his friends reportedly explained that they thought “it would be funny to see how she would respond.” Needless to say, it was not funny, and the guard was very pissed. The guard says Matthews’s friends made an effort to defuse the situation, but Matthews is accused of taking an altogether different approach. Joe Buck, please avert your eyes immediately:Auston’s friend then stepped in and tried to calm [the guard] down and also asked her not to tell management.

As the friend was speaking to [the guard], she said Auston began to walk away and after he walked some distance, Auston pulled his pants down, bent over and grabbed his butt cheeks. [The responding officer] tried to clarify with [the guard] if she saw skin or was he wearing underwear. [The guard] said she knew he had his boxers on, and she did not see his butt.

There is apparently security camera footage from the complex of “a male subject walking toward the elevator that had his pants down around his ankle [sic],” in which it is clear that the subject’s underwear is still where it belonged. The guard contacted police after one of Matthews’s friends apparently made another attempt, half an hour later, to talk her out of contacting management. Less scandalous than the half-mooning is an attempt to enter a woman’s vehicle uninvited, in the dead of night, by a group of drunk men. Don’t ever do this! It will never be anything other than creepy. 

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Posted by mace
October 22, 2024 8:48 am
#13

Ale Ont wrote:

Does anyone remember when some Leafs games were NOT televised.

I do. Back in the Original Six era, the only time leaf or Hab road games were televised was during the playoffs. During the regular season viewers had no idea what MSG, Chicago Stadium, Boston Garden or the Detroit Olympia looked like.

 
Posted by Shorty Wave
October 22, 2024 10:01 am
#14

I watched last night and my only comment is that I wished they would standardize the on-screen score box. Each broadcaster has to leave their stamp on it, Prime puts the power play time in a circle,
screen left, took me a minute to register! Got to go shout at the clouds now…..

 
Posted by paterson1
October 22, 2024 10:10 am
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I watched part of the game on my computer and generally an excellent production and good play by play.  I agree with Shorty Wave that the graphics were a bit overdone. 

 
Posted by RadioActive
October 22, 2024 5:37 pm
#16

This review seems a bit overdone, but for what it's worth:

"Maple Leafs fans rarely agree on anything, but all seemed to be on the same page in praising the streaming Goliath's broadcast quality during and after Toronto's win over the Lightning. Many also took the time to call out the difference in quality compared to TSN, which hosts some local games, and national-broadcaster Sportsnet."

Leafs fans rave over Amazon Prime's 'unbelievable broadcast' as NHL's streaming era takes hold: 'Making Sportsnet and TSN look like moldy bread'
 

 
Posted by Binson Echorec
October 22, 2024 6:01 pm
#17

I don't doubt that the streaming shakeup might make the traditional broadcasters sit up and take notice...BUT...somehow I get the feeling that if the Leafs had lost, Leafs fans would criticize the broadcast...as if that had affected the outcome somehow.

 


 
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