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If I could get a full movie to fit into 200 megabytes for my PSP, I'm sure the brains at google could do the same with NHL games, especially since they're scaled down.
There's only so much you can compress NHL video before it becomes impossible to follow the puck.
lol well considering that there are only 2 times a night that an update is needed (after the early games then again after the late games...which TSN does), I'd say they're on the ball.
But if my team's game ends at 9:35 or so, I want to see where the standings are at that moment based on whoever has already finished. I don't necessarily want to wait for all the early games to be done.
Agreed. I always calculate the standings myself each night after my team plays; I'll probably check ESPN's site now that I know they update them instantly.
They do have some stats that no one else has or are hard to find elsewhere. Wish they hadn't ditched or hidden their game by game attendance figures though.
For anyone looking for said hidden attendance figures ...
EDIT: That's team-by-team figures (which are also somewhat hard to find). I guess you mean that ESPN removed the attendance from each team's schedule page. I hadn't noticed that before. Bummer.
I think ESPN realizes that the NHL can be a hot property if they get the games and advertise it properly. The NHL portion of their website is one of most hit sections on their website and they don't even televise the games anymore. Imagine how many hits on their website they would get if they got a tv deal and promoted it heavily.
Google TV, Yahoo, and Youtube dont charge you. Buying NHL centre Ice online isn't what this article is about.
But maybe the NHL leads the way with his cooperations. I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know, all charges against Google and youtube were useless in terms of getting money from them. While youtube has to remove any content, whose copyrights belong to the NHL, there is currently no way to prohibit users from uploading NHL-related content and upload clips from NHL-games.
Therefore a kind of joint venture seems to be more promising than to scour youtube for "illegal clips".
espn's stat breakdowns are much better than tsn's, and that annoys me since i hate espn and would rather go to tsn for all my hockey info. tsn usually has better hockey related articles however.
