The NHL is Struggling..

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  • @tylerwells711
    @tylerwells711 หลายเดือนก่อน +777

    Blacking out your cities team is absolutely insane

    • @HyperPlex17
      @HyperPlex17 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Yes bro I hate it 😢

    • @mysticone1798
      @mysticone1798 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      There is some optimal balance to showing games free on TV vs. blacking them out, but clearly the NHL has not found that optimal balance. At this point, NHL games on TV are so rare that hardly anyone is away of the sport.
      Out of sight, out of mind!!!!

    • @doubledip3181
      @doubledip3181 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Back in the seventies through the eighties you could only watch away games in N Y never a home game ever.

    • @jDkaufman25
      @jDkaufman25 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Growing up in the 90's I wanted to watch the Blackhawks in Chicago but couldn't. I felt like I wasn't invited to the club and became indifferent to the sport as I got older. Sure it was cool to see them win but it was never my sport

    • @Shurehlm
      @Shurehlm หลายเดือนก่อน

      No one was watching anyways.

  • @doubllechief6926
    @doubllechief6926 หลายเดือนก่อน +431

    The NHL has seriously outgrown Gary Bettman. He did his job with expanding the league in the U.S., but now it’s time for new leadership, someone who can bring hockey into the age of the internet.

    • @freedom1028
      @freedom1028 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Gary is waaaaay past his best before date.

    • @freedom1028
      @freedom1028 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      The NBA and the WNBA are both spiraling down in flames. LeBron is done, in hiding from scandals. The WNBA had it's best year by far last year and still lost 40 million $. Sports are in trouble from their own mistakes and never admitting or addressing those mistakes.

    • @philippemichelvidori7248
      @philippemichelvidori7248 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@freedom1028 I have been a forward and goltenter since 1980 and I skate pretty well ,but the game is too expensive to play and watch these days !

    • @freedom1028
      @freedom1028 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@philippemichelvidori7248 You make a good point. Cheers.

    • @CowboyPants-h5p
      @CowboyPants-h5p หลายเดือนก่อน

      Time to have someone who actually PLAYED hockey take the helm. Bettman is such a loser and poser.

  • @Hydra-Yoga-Chicago
    @Hydra-Yoga-Chicago หลายเดือนก่อน +583

    110% not interested in the gambling advertising on NHL broadcasts.

    • @NicEeEe843
      @NicEeEe843 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There was always always gambling involved, it’s more advertised now but it was 100% always ingrained into sports. Remember the 1919 World Series? It was famously completely rigged by the mafia. It’s been going on for over a hundred years easily

    • @oneshot3216
      @oneshot3216 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Ya they suck

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Just imagine if you live in a household where addiction is a thing. "Dad isn't it great to be reminded how you destroyed our lives?" "don't worry son, you'll be reminded 15 times in the next period". It's morally disgusting. Anyone feeling guilty for pirating is a simp. I'd argue not pirating makes you an immoral person.

    • @pierreluc5382
      @pierreluc5382 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dixonhill1108
      I bet you don't know what gambling addiction is really like. I bet you don't know anyone who suffer gambling addiction.
      I have family members who are addicted gambler. They can't resist taking random bets with you. It's insufferable...
      I bet you didn't think about that

    • @doubllechief6926
      @doubllechief6926 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Hydra-Yoga-Chicago betting and fantasy are 2 of the biggest drivers of sports viewership. They’re not going anywhere

  • @nep401
    @nep401 หลายเดือนก่อน +475

    Hockey is such an underappreciated sport

    • @ravespartalive6496
      @ravespartalive6496 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's because Latinos, African Americans and other ethnic people don't watch it.

    • @joshuaneal7552
      @joshuaneal7552 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Understatement of the century (at least).

    • @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi
      @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi หลายเดือนก่อน

      The NHL has a problem with Betman being at the helm
      He has the only mainly white sport in the US and as an Epstein, has done everything to promote woke b, put rainbows on everything, refuses to promote the sport in Russia as he HATES Russians
      He has also neutered the sport by removing fighting and discouraging gritty play.
      He has ruined the NHL
      He has also made it so players are petrified of their own shadows and it shows in interviews. The NBA and NFL promotes thugs - the sort of people young Ameriklown types like. The NHL promotes the likes of MacDavid the dud and Conor Bedard. Bedard is nice but dull. Macdavid is boring and unpleasant
      Betman has ruined the NHL
      Good video but I think you missed these salient points

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Which is ironic, people act like it's as popular as water polo. The NHL is still one of the most dominate sports leagues on planet Earth. Football/Basketball have reach peak popularity, Baseball is on the way down. Hockey is has a big up and up to go.

    • @cgrooney9945
      @cgrooney9945 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      The sport is great. Its the league that needs to fix a lot of things

  • @DevilFish69
    @DevilFish69 หลายเดือนก่อน +409

    Cant stand digital ads. I don't want to see a car driving around the boards when i'm watching a hockey game.

    • @Vlad65WFPReviews
      @Vlad65WFPReviews หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      We can tolerate stationary text or graphics - but having moving graphics is a deal killer

    • @vato227
      @vato227 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      It's a distraction. Sometimes it's not a car it's a digital puck. Who's genius idea was that.

    • @mikes7446
      @mikes7446 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah!

    • @CamrosMedia
      @CamrosMedia หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      But then how are going to be reminded to buy TheSlop(tm)?

    • @Chris-fn5kd
      @Chris-fn5kd หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Digital ads are really a bad idea. The game's tough enough for new viewers, and then you add that distraction...😮

  • @bodysurfsooke
    @bodysurfsooke หลายเดือนก่อน +593

    I was shocked this year at how quickly my excitement for the start of hockey died as soon as the first sports betting ad came on.

    • @hydr5
      @hydr5 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Can't stand the moving board ads

    • @Szkula
      @Szkula หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I enjoy me some betting, but yeah I find it odd these leagues are so cozy with sportsbooks.

    • @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi
      @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi หลายเดือนก่อน

      he NHL as a problem with Betman being at the helm
      He has the only mainly white sport in the US and as an Epstein, has done everything to promote woke b, put rainbows on everything, refuses to promote the sport in Russia as he HATES Russians
      He has also neutered the sport by removing fighting and discouraging gritty play.
      He has ruined the NHL
      He has also made it so players are petrified of their own shadows and it shows in interviews. The NBA and NFL promotes thugs - the sort of people young Ameriklown types like. The NHL promotes the likes of MacDavid the dud and Conor Bedard. Bedard is nice but dull. Macdavid is boring and unpleasant
      Betman has ruined the NHL
      Good video but I think you missed these salient points

    • @tophercabba
      @tophercabba หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@hydr5 yea the rolling puck one especially jesus ,like why do they have to be animated so stupid ,baseball i could under stand because there are standing still 98% of the time lol but hockey is non stop movement and thats when thye choose to make the ads move aswell smh

    • @TreySarver
      @TreySarver หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Y’all are really clutching your pearls over sports betting?

  • @franciscolopez7101
    @franciscolopez7101 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    The NHL has gone too far with advertising. Ads are now on players' jerseys, helmets, and even painted on the ice. The worst ads are the animated CGI ads on the boards and glass-they’re distracting, especially during gameplay, and make it hard to follow the game. It’s obnoxious and a big reason I don’t watch NHL hockey as much anymore. On top of that, blacking out local games to push cable subscriptions is ridiculous. They expect me to pay for multiple platforms while enduring intrusive ads that ruin the experience? No thanks.

    • @danielkubin3878
      @danielkubin3878 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      NHL have to still lot of "learn" from Europe. Look how looks like some Jerseys or Ice in Europe leagues.

    • @muti7632
      @muti7632 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@danielkubin3878 in europe there are no blackouts and going to see games live at arena doesn't bankrupt you so who is the real winner here?

  • @humbertodemanzolini6735
    @humbertodemanzolini6735 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    People getting tired of ads everywhere. Ads on the ice, digital ads on the blue line, ads on the corners, digital ads on the boards. Betting ads on commercial breaks.

  • @TheSuperRetroBros
    @TheSuperRetroBros หลายเดือนก่อน +336

    It's because they make it so fucking hard to watch any of their games. I am NEVER going to spend hundreds of dollars a year to watch the PGH penguins play. I'll watch post-game highlights on YT or watch a stream with friends online or watch it at someone else's house.
    I don't even know where to find them half the time. I looked a million times on Hulu over the past 3 years, didn't see any pens games when their games were occurring. This is when I saw all kinds of other NHL games on there. They are intentionally sabotaging their fans' ability to be a part of the experience. Why they make it this hard to fucking watch some hockey is beyond me. There are 80+ games in a season, you really gotta gatekeep your fans that long?
    I say this as someone who's played ice hockey his entire life and lived in PGH his entire life. It's completely embarrassing how stupid the NHL C-Suite executives are. Absolute damn fools.

    • @travr1131
      @travr1131 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Well said; you nailed it! As a Caps fan it is the same dumb crap here in the DMV too, so in that I have to buy two subscriptions to catch Caps games just to have freaking sports gambling ads shoved front and center.
      Screw that and the illegal streams are just loaded with malware/trojans, so I don't even bother. Don't even get me started on blackouts!

    • @LisaRose19740
      @LisaRose19740 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Every game is on Fubo for $90/month 😅

    • @MbisonBalrog
      @MbisonBalrog หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      NHL network

    • @nathanadrian7797
      @nathanadrian7797 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@MbisonBalrog I used to have the NHL channels, but the games I want to watch were all blacked out! I just catch the highlights on youtube.

    • @milanek1527
      @milanek1527 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MbisonBalrogregional blackouts.

  • @tacocruiser4238
    @tacocruiser4238 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

    ESPN+ is a good deal if your favorite team is out-of-market. But if you live in your favorite team's home market, then you are screwed due to blackouts.

    • @eriklakeland3857
      @eriklakeland3857 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I’m a Leafs fan from Indiana. I get to enjoy most of their games. But when the Leafs play the Blackhawks, Blues, or Jackets, the games are blacked out. Being in a “battleground state” like Indiana, you have to go off the board and find a team out of the region.

    • @tacocruiser4238
      @tacocruiser4238 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @eriklakeland3857 I am a Sharks fan living in Southern California. I get blacked out whenever the Sharks play the Kings. But the Ducks have their own free streaming service (Victory+) so I can still watch them. I almost wish I was a Ducks fan (or maybe not lol).

    • @tacocruiser4238
      @tacocruiser4238 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@eriklakeland3857 I am a Sharks fan living in Southern California. I get blacked out whenever the Sharks play the L.A. Kings. But I can still watch the Ducks games because the Ducks have their own free streaming service (Victory+). Ducks fans have the best deal. The Dallas Stars are also on Victory+.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@eriklakeland3857 Considering the standing of those 3 teams it'd hardly a problem.

    • @calgary2800
      @calgary2800 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah way way cheaper than going to a game. I live in Seattle. Good seats are out of reach here

  • @KenArthur-j6b
    @KenArthur-j6b หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    ESPN = Hockey Killer

    • @johnsamoilis6379
      @johnsamoilis6379 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      how so? ESPN+ has allowed me to watch multiple games every night.

    • @cuckertarlson3037
      @cuckertarlson3037 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I'm a stars fan so they show 90 percent of the games on their victory plus app ( you have to live in texas ). I mostly use ESPN + to watch other teams I like on days that the stars aren't playing. Has allowed me to watch many different teams this season.

    • @nixy..
      @nixy.. 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Disagree. Hockey coming back to ESPN is 15 years overdue. Plus all games are available on their ESPN+ service

    • @mateo1726
      @mateo1726 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Agree but I’ll add an asterisk. The early season “hockey explosion night” or whatever the called it when all the r games were on ESPN in one night was awesome

    • @sandovalperry2895
      @sandovalperry2895 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I cut the cord when my basic cable cost more than my home and car insurance. No more ESPN plus a ton of college and professional football. The way it’s going I’ll only be able to afford to watch old black & white TV shows.

  • @jfkst1
    @jfkst1 หลายเดือนก่อน +157

    Make watching impossible and not watching will become reality.

    • @SynoGG
      @SynoGG  หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Completely agree, main issue they have to tackle and everything else will align with time and some work

    • @jfkst1
      @jfkst1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SynoGG
      Yeah but isn't the same thing happening in the NBA? I thought their TV viewing was down as well and they also have access issues for fans.

    • @SynoGG
      @SynoGG  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not entirely sure actually, not really that into the NBA so not up to date with their ratings. But regardless they are doing much better than the NHL with its viewership, fluctuations are normal but constant falling stats are not. Really just need to figure out the whole blackout situation ASAP, and move on from there, really is hurting the league atm

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The crazy thing is every true fan who is buying the cable package, needs to pirate as well if they're a true fan due to blackouts. Who spends $500 a year to not watch every game? If you're spending $500 a year on black out hockey, you're using those illegal streams. If you're motivated enough to pay you're motivated to pirate. The league is its own worst nightmare. I was a devoted fan who engaged in "gate way pirating" I felt no guilt as I was paying for the service at the time. I started by pirating 2 blackout games a year. I still had to do all of the prep work to be a pirate. I had to find the streams, hook up my laptop so I could watch it on my big tv(otherwise I use the smart tv app for sportsnet). I learned it was easy and a better product than what I was paying for. The league is run by idiots.

    • @TheBalloonHoax
      @TheBalloonHoax หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The reality is the NFL is top dog in the Big 4 as far as viewership, the NHL/ MBL/ NBA are all juggling for 2nd place.
      The first of those 3 to end regional blackouts and make it simple/ afforable to watch, will win 2nd and finally (actually) start competing for eyeballs.

  • @black_squall
    @black_squall หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    Hell no, I don't agree that the NHL players need to be more obnoxious on social media.

    • @DezknightYT
      @DezknightYT หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Yea but don’t make it seem like they’re NPC’s or something

    • @CreamBootlegs
      @CreamBootlegs หลายเดือนก่อน

      They're soulless robots as of right now so they need to do something

    • @kod8933
      @kod8933 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This trope of an argument has been going on for years. It ignores actual problems like view availability and is a change only the media cares about because it would give them trash clickbait.

    • @Windyyyyyyyyy
      @Windyyyyyyyyy หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I disagree

  • @zeldadahedgehog
    @zeldadahedgehog หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    "What happened to the NHL?"
    Gary Bettman happened, the end

  • @brotherjay4592
    @brotherjay4592 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    A Canadian team hasn’t won the Cup since 1993. That is a big reason why viewership is plummeting in Canada.

    • @bodanlunny1323
      @bodanlunny1323 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Yup and it is rigged and they even admit if you listen to them

    • @danielkubin3878
      @danielkubin3878 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Well is not problem of NHL, that Canadian teams usually sucks in Stanley Cup...

    • @johnsm-bq7ct
      @johnsm-bq7ct 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      singing the Canadian national anthem in Punjabi didn't help

    • @danielpetrucci8952
      @danielpetrucci8952 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Montreal Canadiens

  • @PolarBearPredator
    @PolarBearPredator หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    GET ALL CORP LOGOS OFF ALL NHL UNIFORMS (JERSEYS & HELMETS)!

  • @davidlheureux846
    @davidlheureux846 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    The blackout rules are completely ridiculous. I live in north Idaho, and I am blacked out for the Kraken, Golden Knights, Avalanche, and Utah. Las Vegas is over 1,100 miles away from my home! WTF are these guys thinking?

    • @joeynash4505
      @joeynash4505 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wow that’s brutal, I get Blackhawk games from Saint Louis.

    • @facubeitches1144
      @facubeitches1144 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "The peasants don't matter. They don't pay for our vacation homes."
      - NHL Execs

    • @tomedmonds8347
      @tomedmonds8347 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      That’s bizarre. I live in SLC, and only the Hockey Club is blacked out for me.

    • @davidlheureux846
      @davidlheureux846 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@tomedmonds8347 cuz that’s your local market team. NHL assigned 4 teams to my local market. Brainiacs at work.

  • @MISTERSLLIM
    @MISTERSLLIM หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Paying for all the apps/ services, and getting blackouts are asinine. And the betting shoved in your face nonstop is a buzz kill.

    • @tophercabba
      @tophercabba หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      thats funny cause if ur buying those apps and theres random blackouts then ur basicly gambling on if ur game is shown smh ,7 sportsnet channels and i think 6 tsn channels here in canada and they have the same 1 or2 games on all the sportsnet channels then 1 if ur lucky on tsn and half the time its on of the same games smhim a avs fan clearly lol and yea theres been 3 games i think in those channels all year the pens game the other day uhhhh the oilers one of course and maybe one other ,i kno the canucks game will be on but yea like jesus ,thye only show the games if a Canadian team is playing 98% of the time

    • @MISTERSLLIM
      @MISTERSLLIM หลายเดือนก่อน

      @tophercabba exactly.

  • @BobSaxon-ou7ww
    @BobSaxon-ou7ww หลายเดือนก่อน +212

    Too many ads, jerseys with corporate ad Patch's . Sports gambling ads got annoying , regional blackouts being forced to stream . Agenda nights that nobody asked for

    • @oneshot3216
      @oneshot3216 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      The gambling crap is 💩
      The advertising on the ice and the digital advertising on the boards drives me nuts.
      For me the ice is too small for these players. They need to make it a little bigger as the players are so big and fast there's no time and space. Makes for very choppy play and a game that's more defensive played up and down the boards.

    • @zeldadahedgehog
      @zeldadahedgehog หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree with everything you said until the last part
      Please explain to me how Hockey Fights Cancer night is an "agenda"?

    • @thefamilymans2545
      @thefamilymans2545 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You got it on ALL of them!

    • @steve11263
      @steve11263 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Not to mention the absolutely terrible officiating

    • @Shimmed
      @Shimmed หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Agenda nights, especially after the COVID bull crap, drove me to stop watching sports.

  • @SimRacingVeteran
    @SimRacingVeteran หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Gotta stop with the digital ads on the boards and ton down all the betting advertising.

    • @comradeshadovshki
      @comradeshadovshki หลายเดือนก่อน

      I got no problem with it if the ads were static, and didn't change every 30 seconds. It's a great idea to get more revenue, but having it change during actual play.. and with horrific animations to boot.. it seriously is grating to watch it happen during play. The betting just floors me. There are KIDS watching these f*cking broadcasts.. what the actual F are you doing?

  • @MegaJcoulter
    @MegaJcoulter หลายเดือนก่อน +114

    The lack of physicality is the problem. NHL had a unique warrior attitude. They’ve become corporately polite.

    • @RSeaker
      @RSeaker หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Yep. Canadiens, Big Bad Bruins, Broad Street Bullies. Good times.

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      to say nothing how boring the players are nowadays. ZERO personality.

    • @betterdaysareatoenailaway
      @betterdaysareatoenailaway หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Every other game there's some left wing crusader shit like "today we honor trans hockey players who fought in WWI. Accepting the award is the distant third cousin of a trans hockey player who played for the Kenora Thistles in 1903."

    • @betterdaysareatoenailaway
      @betterdaysareatoenailaway หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      In the 90s the players had personalities. I used to look forward to Jeremy Roenick's post-game interviews because he was so funny. Today they're all robotically polite and dull.

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@betterdaysareatoenailaway you aint wrong there. Not sure why the marketing departments of the teams waste their time and money on these agenda nights considering how tough it is to enjoy and play hockey. I mean its like Ferrari and Chanel advertising and holding fashion shows in low-income areas.

  • @philipsmith3901
    @philipsmith3901 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    The NBA profiles its stars relentlessly on social media yet its ratings are plummeting as well. Explain that.

  • @dehydratedwat3r
    @dehydratedwat3r หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    people loved hockey because of the physicality and fighting and passion. its just not entertaining anymore

    • @mikes7446
      @mikes7446 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Exactly there’s no rivals anymore. Edmonton vs Calgary are boring games now

    • @Dethrone55
      @Dethrone55 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Exactly

    • @jrblookout5567
      @jrblookout5567 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I haven’t watched hockey in like 8 years. I’m getting back into it again. Is there really no rivalry’s anymore? wtf

    • @sethboooooi23245
      @sethboooooi23245 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sounds like a bad sport if you have to rely on fighting to draw viewers. Just a thought lol. We already have combat sports with dudes who can ACTUALLY fight
      Nhl fights are the equivalent of an average bar brawl. It is funny tho

    • @torstenscholz6243
      @torstenscholz6243 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sethboooooi23245 Yup, if anyone wants to see sport for the fights, he should watch boxing or wrestling. In hoockey, fights are a nice bonus, but shouldn't be the main selling point.

  • @ceddycedchin
    @ceddycedchin 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    1) Horrible marketing/publicity on social media.
    No one knows the players. Must hear about top stars everyday, like it was with Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier.
    2) Distracting digital ads on the boards. Makes the puck/action harder to follow than it already is.
    3) No games on free TV & streaming media. That's where millions of viewers are. Acquire new fans by giving them free access.
    4) Poor TV presentation. Hockey is exciting. The players do remarkable things on the ice. The excitement doesn't come across on many broadcasts. Better productions are needed.

  • @pigems9162
    @pigems9162 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    Hockey used to be ballet on a battlefield, now it’s just ballet. It’s just boring to watch.

    • @billmurray1431
      @billmurray1431 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I said the same thing. Last NHL game I went to felt like watching a very high quality pond hockey game. Never mind fights, there were hardly any hitting ir contact at all.. It was exactly what u said, boring to watch

  • @xerirenee3352
    @xerirenee3352 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Bettman has turned the NHL into the NBA on skates. Cheerleading p.a. announcers, ice girls in cheesy jazz pants, excessive in-game entertainment.

  • @chrisod22
    @chrisod22 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I used to watch two hockey teams play each other. Now I watch two corporations play each other

  • @BrianPremo
    @BrianPremo หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    They purposely removed the grit and passion and replaced it with 19 year old kids doing trick shots. They focused more on making as many variant jerseys as they could instead of focusing on the quality of the game. “Lipstick on pig”. All the flashy jerseys don’t mean a thing if they don’t represent a quality product. They also got social-political, woke. Sure it checks diversity boxes but does it improve the product? The game has gone soft, soulless and sold out. I mostly watch old games from the 90s up til the early 2000s and man the difference is clear as day. I’m a wings fan and you couldn’t pay me to go to one of their games these days. It’s an insult to the legacy that they even call themselves the Detroit red wings.

    • @betterdaysareatoenailaway
      @betterdaysareatoenailaway หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Dude, I'm the same. I thought I was the only one who watches old games from the 90s in my free time lol.

    • @davidmora7176
      @davidmora7176 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'm with you Brian. I've got hours and hours of old 80s, 90s and 2000s games and stacks of vhs fights back when it truly was a "man's" sport. Sure miss them days.

    • @comradeshadovshki
      @comradeshadovshki หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@betterdaysareatoenailaway late 80's/early 90s was my NHL crack addiction. The Maple Leafs runs of the early to mid 90's in no small part played a role. The grit, the battles, Wendel Clark steamrolling players, hip checks galore... it was all classic Don Cherry RockmSockm hockey!

    • @jrblookout5567
      @jrblookout5567 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Same I’m a wings fan, they are t the same as the used to be. They were even great in the 2000s and early 2010s. Now I can’t name 4 players. I used to know the whole line up.

    • @davidmora7176
      @davidmora7176 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @comradeshadovshki
      And all the Domi vs Ray fights and the playoffs vs Islanders. Man I loved the Leafs back then.

  • @liammerrick6399
    @liammerrick6399 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    They've fucked themselves by splitting it amongst so many viewing platforms. It's all over the place and I just can't be arsed searching if the game is on the 1 subscription i can afford. I'll watch hockey night in Canada on Saturdays and that's it. Im not paying for any service if I'm only getting some of the games. Greed is ruining everything

    • @ciaronsmith4995
      @ciaronsmith4995 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why would I watch hockey when Formula 1, Soccer, NFL or the NBA exist? Serious question.

    • @davidricards5262
      @davidricards5262 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@ciaronsmith4995 and that's why you're not real fan your band Wagner and wannabe .

    • @liammerrick6399
      @liammerrick6399 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @ciaronsmith4995 cause it's better. Nfl is 10 minutes of action, 3hrs of marketing. Basketball is 7ft guys putting a ball in an 8ft net a hundred times a game.

    • @ciaronsmith4995
      @ciaronsmith4995 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@liammerrick6399 F1 and Soccer? Again. Hockey is backwards in almost every way.

    • @davidricards5262
      @davidricards5262 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@liammerrick6399 your band Wagner and a wannabe .

  • @davidphillips4706
    @davidphillips4706 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    ESPN is the problem, they don't care at all about hockey

    • @davidphillips4706
      @davidphillips4706 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      100% correct, they care about your money, I will never pay them a dime

    • @rodrickadamginsburg8960
      @rodrickadamginsburg8960 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The proof was when they switched away from the Rangers playoff game last season to the Avs/Stars game!

  • @lAmCanad1an
    @lAmCanad1an หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Its ever since they allowed and promoted betting. They have clear favourites every season and each season its felt more and more manufactured and disingenuous.

  • @migjager7352
    @migjager7352 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    Cable blackouts, DEI ads, gambling, and dilution of the product- they don't even bother to name new teams at this point. In short, unfettered greed and unwanted woke poison.

  • @greatwazzoo
    @greatwazzoo 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Once you realize that Pro sports are rigged, there’s no point in wasting your time.

  • @kfnwuwbw9s
    @kfnwuwbw9s หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    They deserve this. They're making tickets unaffordable for nearly everybody, playing obvious favorites, not adapting to the changing markets, making it harder for Canadian teams to win every year, preventing fans from even watching games (more and more every year), and nobody can even afford to play the game.
    Gee, I wonder why their ratings are falling so much every year!!

    • @foxl2020
      @foxl2020 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I don't think they are making it harder for Canadian teams to win. But also, it would help if some of these Canadian teams, *cough* Maple Leafs *cough* if they were mentally capable of beating the Boston Bruins no matter what? It would also help if the likes of Edmonton, minus last season, could also actually do something with all their draft picks? Winnipeg has been a great team since moving from Arizona as well, just seem mentally blocked in the playoffs. Let's also not forget a literal riot after 2011 when Vancouver once again tried to burn their city down after losing to....Jesus Christ....the Boston Bruins. I don't think it's hard for Canadian teams to win based on the economics of hockey, I think they have just melted the fuck down when it has mattered most.

  • @JH-jw7pu
    @JH-jw7pu หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    Arenas are not struggling to fill seats, The Hockey Guy made a post about attendance just a few days ago

    • @karl7487
      @karl7487 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Cap is going up further than anticipated due to success. More clickbait headlines.

    • @seanholt892
      @seanholt892 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It depends on the team

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      can't say I blame fans. The teams have ruined the fan experience with rules, asinine marketing and agenda nights.

    • @AddictedToPain-x1i
      @AddictedToPain-x1i หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's not a clickbait video when viewership numbers literally back up with the guy is saying.. The NHL is bleeding viewership numbers and the statistics back that statement up. Just because you don't want to hear it doesn't make it a clickbait video. Hockey is dying and it's the NHL killing it. This isn't anything new, it's just something a lot of people who love hockey like to ignore because they don't want to accept it as reality.. That the sport is on the decline and it is getting worse, not better.

    • @jmn327
      @jmn327 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Didn't read the comment, huh?

  • @TheMrTwizter
    @TheMrTwizter หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    "The NHL doesn't market the game outside of their core audience", and they don't even do THAT well.
    I'm about as big a hockey guy as you'll find, but when there was the global series games to start the season, i did not know about them.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      One of the biggest problems is this idea that the sport needs to be for the commoners. Hockey is game of thrones not dukes of hazard. People like watching Knights in shinning armor, hockey doesn't need to be accessible. People like to watch the elite. In football/basketball we know they are the elite. Because of their speed and size. Hockey isn't physically impressive, it's impressive via skill. The more skill based a league is, the more the costs of the sport are a benefit.

    • @TheMrTwizter
      @TheMrTwizter หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @dixonhill1108 if hockey is game of thrones, and I am the game of thrones fan, then they don't even market it TO ME. I am the audience. I am the demographic, and it's marketed to no one.

    • @davidmusser511
      @davidmusser511 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Corporations ruin everything they touch!!

    • @teds5396
      @teds5396 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I disagree, they are so busy going after minorities and women that they have abandoned their core audience of white men

    • @Bloombergizzle
      @Bloombergizzle หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same. Well said.

  • @stephenmitchell243
    @stephenmitchell243 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Washed down, not enough talent to go around. Rigged draft order, poor officials and officiating influencing games, blow hard dei panels.... betting on hockey, too high of salaries, high priced tickets, $10.00 beers and $7.50 hotdogs, early start times when local fans are still at work.Gary Bettman screwed this sport so badly it's almost as popular as darts.

    • @torstenscholz6243
      @torstenscholz6243 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Add to that too many teams - expansion to 32 teams was completely wrong, when there's hardly enough talent to decently fill 30 teams. Especially since the rise of the KHL, which more and more draws Russian talent there instaed of the NHL. Also, way too long season with way too many games - if the playoffs end in June, when it's already summer, why would anyone care about what's still a winter sport?

    • @mattcardarelli
      @mattcardarelli 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Totally watered down. Teams in cities that the NHL has no business being in.

  • @lv2keepfit493
    @lv2keepfit493 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    I wouldn't feel sorry if the NHL lost millions, no player is worth the money they make in any sport nor is ownership and sport channels. It's greed beyond belief and I'm shocked people still go to games $$$... the price of a ticket, food, parking is insane. I play the game for my health and social aspect, I truly don't care about professional sports anymore.

    • @GlowingWalrus
      @GlowingWalrus หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      NBA and nfl I would say yes. But nhl players don’t make an insane amount of money for the amount of games and how hard they play, streaming services and sports packages have hurt viewership more than inflated prices

    • @betterdaysareatoenailaway
      @betterdaysareatoenailaway หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I haven't been to a game since 2013. It's not worth the $

    • @pbmc_
      @pbmc_ หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I will never attend a live game in any sport. Complete ripoff. From parking to concession, it's criminal.

    • @berryburst2608
      @berryburst2608 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@GlowingWalrusnfl players earn theirs for what they put their bodies through.

    • @brenthine3815
      @brenthine3815 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You have really nailed it down!

  • @heyblondie28
    @heyblondie28 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    the viewing experience is so bad now.. ads everywhere. Ads on the jerseys, ads on the helmets, ads projected on the ice, ads projected on the glass, ads moving around on the boards DURING the play. It's so distracting... I miss the NHL that existed pre-covid... I used to watch hockey everyday and now I just can't.

    • @kite-fan
      @kite-fan วันที่ผ่านมา

      Good points. I wouldn’t mind the digital ads on the boards if they were static during play. The jersey and helmet sponsors I mind less if they’re small, as long as they don’t go full on Euro style where they look like skating billboards.

  • @sergenerli976
    @sergenerli976 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Another factor not mentioned is the inconsistent, and largely subjective officiating.

    • @HoshizakiYoshimasa
      @HoshizakiYoshimasa หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's American Football levels of arbitrary and inconsistent. It makes a bad product. The Euro leagues have much better officiating.

  • @michaelkyne7880
    @michaelkyne7880 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The economy in Canada is incredibly bad. The stats do not show how bad the situation truly is. Hockey attendance is not on the bare necessity list

  • @PsychByte
    @PsychByte หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Doesn’t help that the best players like McDavid and Bedard have the personalities of ironing boards.

    • @CamrosMedia
      @CamrosMedia หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Every player interview: " we uhhh had some good looks and uhhh shoot the puck" 😂

    • @chrisduncan3943
      @chrisduncan3943 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Are players told to sound monotonous and bored for every interview? That would explain why they all sound exactly the same

    • @D-Fens_1632
      @D-Fens_1632 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Most players seem pretty empty headed. They don't really have time and energy for hobbies an these guys didn't pay attention in school, they were busting their asses. They're not very intellectual, they're kind of simple, basic jocks.

    • @kod8933
      @kod8933 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Winning games >>>> "oh did you hear about the drama of what he said to media."
      This argument distracts from real problems like subscriptions and blackouts

    • @captainyossarian388
      @captainyossarian388 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@chrisduncan3943 Doesn't help that the journalists ask some of the dumbest questions "What do you imagine that your infant son thinks when he sees you on the ice?"

  • @AricGardnerMontreal
    @AricGardnerMontreal หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    I would pay 100 a year to watch what I want when I want, take it or leave it bigwigs.

    • @adamtajhassam9188
      @adamtajhassam9188 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I would want a 50 dollar discount 4 the blackouts i almost never see my tam win a Cup yet which doesnt help either. Also need better services overall.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamtajhassam9188 the league doesn't care about Canadian teams. If they did they'd bring back the north division and give us an 8th team. East t west divisions means southern teams will always dominate in the playoffs thanks to their tax cheats.

    • @davidphillips4706
      @davidphillips4706 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I gladly paid the NHL for their streaming service while they had it, with a Veteran's discount it came down to about $1 a game. Well worth it. Then they allowed ESPN to get the rights......I will never pay for ESPN

  • @fascistzoomer
    @fascistzoomer 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    You can talk about a concentrated effort to ''lower the barriers'' all you want, and that's good in theory, but that's simply not possible; equipment costs money, and maintaining a rink all year round costs money. You can't make hockey more accessible; it will always be an upper-middle-class sport because they are the ones that can actually pay the cost. This is literally like when motorsport fans complain that karting is too expensive; a chassis, engine, tyres, and fuel will ALWAYS, regardless of how much you try to reduce the cost be insanely expensive, and that's the nature of these sports that require a lot of maintaining.

  • @BarnJ
    @BarnJ หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    God, financials aside, there are so many problems with hockey from a marketing perspective that I don't see it ever getting bigger with the general population.
    1 - The culture of hockey is very old school and reserved. It's all about "we" not "me". Players are almost never arrogant jerks. There is a culture of soft-spoken frontier justice that just won't resonate with modern audiences, for better or worse. Personally, I love the culture of hockey players and find the egotistical antics of NFL and NBA players grotesque and lacking all honor, but it plays to the TikTok generation of kids who feel no shame at doing choreographed dances in rush hour traffic for clicks.
    2 - The league flags their ideal organic marketing (TH-cam reaction content) for copyright violations. There is nothing more satisfying than watching like an inner city black kid or a British football hooligan, or a Chinese national react to hockey fights or hockey skill compilations for the first time and watching them be completely blown away. But they can't do this without the league shooting themselves in the foot by copyright striking any non-approved content.
    3 - The game is actually too fast. Basketball and football are very easy to follow because they are (relatively) slow and are played with a (relatively) enormous object. People unfamiliar with hockey literally cannot follow the puck, and therefore cannot follow the game. This is a problem that can't be solved, as was showcased in the absurd 90s attempt to highlight the puck, or more modern attempts to highlight the name of the player holding the puck during power plays. It's so distracting and annoying that the cure is worse than the disease.
    4 - The game has become too soft and friendly. Skill is great. Speed is great. But drama sells. And the old-school, violent, hate-filled rivalries between teams like the Avalanche and the Red Wings, Bruins and Canadiens, etc. are what really created intrigue. McDavid beating 8 guys and the zamboni driver to score is nice and all, but it cannot compare with the Bruins and Canadiens beating the shit out of each other for 60 minutes including a goalie fight and a bench brawl in terms of entertainment value. And you can't get that in a league where players from rival teams are going out to fancy dinners together the night before a game.
    --End of text wall

    • @AdrienGF
      @AdrienGF หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      agree 100%

    • @Skumtomten1
      @Skumtomten1 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You are right about everything. I also think there are too many games as well in the regular season. If you team isn't doing well, what is the point in watching game 60/82 that doesn't matter? But I honestly hate the modern generation, the fact that hockey isn't popular amoung the young people is more of a sign that it is sensible than anything esle imo, but obviously you need to modern audience. Most things that are popular are quite trash imo, and there is a reason for that.

    • @tudormiller887
      @tudormiller887 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The 'controlled violence' in hockey is a rare thing in most other team sports like soccer, football, basketball & baseball.

    • @bunsw2070
      @bunsw2070 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The games/series are often rigged. The Flames/Canucks series the year the Flames won the cup was the most obviously rigged series I've ever seen. A few years ago when Montreal went to the finals the league tried to rig the series between them an Toronto so Toronto would win the series. The year that Gretzky went to the finals with LA the league rigged the semi-finals series between LA and Toronto. I work with a guy that was a lifelong fanatical hockey fan who walked away from the sport forever because of that. It's hard to care for a sport when you constantly are seeing questionable officiating that goes beyond incompetence.

    • @hypn0298
      @hypn0298 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True, the fact that it being hard to follow goals happening so fast you can't tell what happened + the lack of physicality / big hits / fights compared to 20+ years ago and rivalries these days aren't the same can make it a bore to watch in the current era.

  • @matthewbrandley9027
    @matthewbrandley9027 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nobody wants to be forced to buy streaming services

  • @discoveryman59
    @discoveryman59 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Hockey today has ZERO passion anymore, its like a corporate board meeting on ice where millionaires get together to exchange pleasantries and ask each other how their portfolios are performing! The game is made up of RICH kids "even before they become NHL players" that play the game for MONEY not cuz they love the game! And every team plays the SAME WAY! we have no hitting, no fighting it's just a horrible sport today, they get rid of the hooking and holding to make the game faster, but the hooking and holding got on the players nerves and made them play with a big chip on their shoulder and that bought the emotion to the game!

    • @unholy7324
      @unholy7324 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This! I watch a lot of games and they play the same music in every barn. It's corporate and it sucks

    • @chevelle1
      @chevelle1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🎯

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "he game is made up of RICH kids "even before they become NHL players" How many players today are sons of NHLers? Seems like there are more and more every year.

    • @betterdaysareatoenailaway
      @betterdaysareatoenailaway หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The game has gotten so expensive, especially in AAA (which you HAVE to play if you want to make the NHL). It's true. Only rich kids can play. Which is why the players are so boring. Rich people are boring. Working class people actually have personalities.

    • @jotaemept99
      @jotaemept99 หลายเดือนก่อน

      North american sports always were corporate since day one.

  • @Cyrus747
    @Cyrus747 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Nhl is just boring...too many changes..no hitting..too many players that take too many games off...steering american markets..non stop power plays. It's not what it used to be.

  • @hurigoTV
    @hurigoTV 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    3 beers cost $77 at Canucks game...not going any more

  • @thegoalhorncreator9822
    @thegoalhorncreator9822 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I mean NBA rating are down way worse and are we going to just ignore the fact that last years playoffs was one of the most watched playoffs ever? The NHL is still the best league when it comes to attendance percentage figures.

  • @landonkincaid6630
    @landonkincaid6630 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I love hockey but I never played it. Part of the problem is that hockey is such a gatekeep sport and people try to make you feel like you can't watch it unless you are from where it snows or played the game.

    • @Bloombergizzle
      @Bloombergizzle หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dallas Stars are really good.

    • @Alpha1Epsilon2
      @Alpha1Epsilon2 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes yanks have no place in hockey

  • @Jsart87
    @Jsart87 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I say this about all professional sports but the advertising has gotten insane. There’s some points I could pause and be looking at 12-15 advertisements on the screen at one time in hockey. And the announcers even saying “this reply is brought to you by Home Depot” “this goal is sponsored by McDonald’s”…. Pay the players a ton of money but not to the point where it ruins the experience for the fans to do it. Soccer/football still has some decency but that’s it.

  • @ronweasley4767
    @ronweasley4767 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    They need to move a couple American teams to Canada

    • @JosephRocco-mi4cm
      @JosephRocco-mi4cm 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      We gave Canada the Thrashers and Flames. Maybe another Atlanta team can move there 😁

    • @jeffneptune2922
      @jeffneptune2922 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Quebec City really deserves a team.......like before, they would sell out every game but unfortunately, it is a small market.

    • @bodanlunny1323
      @bodanlunny1323 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Taking advantage of Canadians passion and pissing on it has reached it’s time and it’s over

    • @JensSchraeder
      @JensSchraeder 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I still believe Saskatchewan would go nuts over an nhl team. Even with only 1.2 million people.

  • @the6ig6adwolf
    @the6ig6adwolf หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    The Edmonton Oilers should start dating Taylor Swift. That will raise interest in the league, especially with young people.

    • @SynoGG
      @SynoGG  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      😂

    • @JD-cg2qb
      @JD-cg2qb หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      One of these hockey boys need to drag out a kardashian or something

    • @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi
      @AlexandrawOfficial_Lexi หลายเดือนก่อน

      The NHL has a problem with Betman being at the helm
      He has the only mainly white sport in the US and as an Epstein, has done everything to promote woke b, put rainbows on everything, refuses to promote the sport in Russia as he HATES Russians
      He has also neutered the sport by removing fighting and discouraging gritty play.
      He has ruined the NHL
      He has also made it so players are petrified of their own shadows and it shows in interviews. The NBA and NFL promotes thugs - the sort of people young Ameriklown types like. The NHL promotes the likes of MacDavid the dud and Conor Bedard. Bedard is nice but dull. Macdavid is boring and unpleasant
      Betman has ruined the NHL
      Good video but I think you missed these salient points

    • @bodanlunny1323
      @bodanlunny1323 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Bettman connsmythed himself to make Florida the champs, that finals like the last 30 has been decided in the office and by those willing to go under the desk and punch in after cleaning themsleves up after Bettman is satisfied

  • @the6ig6adwolf
    @the6ig6adwolf หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    I pay an internet bill every month, and if hockey is available online through a stream that isn't "pirating" or "stealing," it's getting what I paid for.

    • @brettrossi034
      @brettrossi034 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Hell, I live in Jersey and Comcast the only cable service in my area lost its deal with MSG. I can't even watch my devils without paying 30$ a month, which is way too pricey

    • @NicEeEe843
      @NicEeEe843 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@brettrossi034on average there’s 14 games per month for each team (that’s what it says online). If you divide that, each game is 2.14 bucks!! Lets round it up to 2.30 per game.. Is that really too expensive?? Lmao. You can watch hockey for the price of a plain bagel 😅, if you can’t afford that I’m genuinely sorry. These guys are busting their asses, playing insane games, incredible comebacks, highlight reel goals. I really can’t give them two and a half bucks for an hour of high level play? Dang

    • @NicEeEe843
      @NicEeEe843 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@brettrossi03414 games per month. 30 bucks per month. Isn’t that 2.14 bucks per game? It’s really too expensive to pay nearly two bucks and a half for over an hour of some of the best hockey on the planet, especially with how the devils have been playing it sounds like a steal to me

    • @NicEeEe843
      @NicEeEe843 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brettrossi034if the average number of games per month is 14, divided that would be $2.14 per game. A bit above 2$ per game is too expensive?

    • @christianames2161
      @christianames2161 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      This is a very clear example of Gabe Newel's "Piracy is a service model issue" statement. Stream sites have way more engaging features, they're easier to use, and the games are always available. Hulu can't even get a web player with a working pause button.

  • @anonymous134y
    @anonymous134y 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    3:00 hockey players are weird. Crazy and rowdy off camera but robotic and boring on camera. None of them market their personality.
    I think a lot of them just like to keep to themselves, whereas basketball/football players seem to care more about clout than the game itself. Seems like hockey players have less time for clout, and spend more time for training.
    6:00 the idea of NHL On The Fly was NHL's redzone. Obviously, hockey is hard to do in redzone format but they should have tried to improve on the tech. There's 3-12 games per day with multiple games overlapping or at the same time.... Canning this was a huge miss by the NHL. Let us pick the main game we want to watch then have "Top shelf" go on the side

  • @Benadyl
    @Benadyl หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    corporate greed is killing the viewer experience. and the players are more like sellout celebrities than they are athletes now.

  • @28gs28gs
    @28gs28gs หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    also the new woke mainstream media machine absolutely avoids hockey promotion at all costs

  • @Inertia2702
    @Inertia2702 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    nhl doesn't need to conform to viral marketing. They need to market the things they value and already have because that's what hockey fans love. Less gimmicks and more hockey.
    instead they are half assed in both directions and alienating all consumers.

    • @jotaemept99
      @jotaemept99 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Times and things change gramps. If you don't get on board, eventually you're left behind. Just like hockey is for the last 10 years, not just the sport itself but the fans and culture, stuck in the caveman times.

    • @torstenscholz6243
      @torstenscholz6243 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup, NFL and NBA are so successful because of exactly that, they know how to use social media properly.

    • @nalsra0
      @nalsra0 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If NHL doesn’t change then they’ll go bankrupt, maybe it’s for the best, open a new hockey organization that actually innovates

  • @joshuaneal7552
    @joshuaneal7552 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    What do they expect when they AGREE with their advertisers to implement ads that have the INTENTION of distracting the viewer? The more intense and chaotic and crucial a given moment in a game get, the more crazy and animated the ads get. They have also caused seizures and injuries for certain epileptics, and the league is just "meh, whatevs" about it. They don't even put a disclaimer before the broadcast.
    I quickly got used to them and can easily follow the puck, except when they get CRAZY during intense parts of the game and start sensing where the puck is so that it can flash up a bunch of wiggly splish splash ads right as it hits the boards, or follow the puck around with the Enterprise car any time the puck wraps around the corner boards. But even in normal parts of the game with the non-insane ads, they are still very, very annoying, and EXTREMELY disrespectful to fans.
    Of ALL sports to implemnt that nonsense, HOCKEY is the one???? Further proof we are living in the Bizarro World. No joke. Nothing in this world makes sense.

    • @casseau1996
      @casseau1996 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I really don’t know what you’re talking about… There’s little to no ads playing during the time you’re watching the players play.

    • @ComradeDaveH
      @ComradeDaveH หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@casseau1996I think they are talking about the ads on the boards. Each feed runs their own set of sponsors. I am curious on what team they are watching because I haven't seen any ads run like the ones talked about here but I wouldn't put it past them since they aren't actually on seen on the boards at the arena.

  • @grahammiller5812
    @grahammiller5812 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    hockey is the best sport in the world, and presented in the most terrible way possible

  • @douglepong
    @douglepong หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Tickets are too high.

    • @jk7921
      @jk7921 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Clearly not since most games still sell out. The tickets are worth what people are willing to pay for them

    • @douglepong
      @douglepong หลายเดือนก่อน

      @jk7921 waitta go and drive up the tickets! What were you thinking! 😂

    • @banzaaiiiii
      @banzaaiiiii หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hockey got a very strong demographic fan base/following=middle class and upper middle class families.
      There’s always someone that can afford them.

    • @matrix-5466
      @matrix-5466 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It depends on the season. But playoff games are always ridiculous.

    • @benjaminq04
      @benjaminq04 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Fr, caps tickets are like 300$

  • @Jerbsinator
    @Jerbsinator หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    A big reason people have stopped watching is the gambling ads. Gambling makes up the bulk of their advertising now and is prompted on the boards, the jumbotron and the players themselves. Gambling has infected the sport for short term gains. I'm sure many parents don't let their children watch anymore because of how it promotes gambling.
    Sportsnet in particular has sold out hard to these gambling websites and what's worse is they don't seem to invest any of that revenue back into their product. Sportsnet has exclusivity rights in Canada, meaning only they get to show us NHL games on cable TV. Even with this exclusivity and money it brings with it, they have the worst production quality by far and often their broadcasts are far inferior to US broadcasts like espn or Amazon. I think I speak for most that nobody like Sportsnet and wants a new company (or everyone) to have broadcasting rights. No competition means a shitty product.
    Until the nhl moves on from these greedy corporations that put minimal effort into their product for maximum rewards, the nhl will continue to decline.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If you expose your kids to those ads you're a garbage parent. That's all you need to know. The NHL really couldn't read the room on this one. Gambling is a bigger scandal than concussions. Concussions hurt the players gambling hurts the audience.
      The NHL fails to appreciate the science. Gambling is far worst than most people understand, they understand it in terms of addiction, but they don't understand why it's addictive.
      Gambling addicts don't just go broke, gambling is absolutely cancerous to your neurology. It fundamental alters the structure of your brain. Once you're a gambling addict, the odds you pick up supplementary addictions or suffer from impulse control issues goes way way up.
      Think about it this way, our entire civilization works to conditions people to work towards the best odds for success in life, and to plan your lives as far into the future avoiding temptation all along the way. The entire point of gambling is to completely unravel that conditioning.

    • @thomass2451
      @thomass2451 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jerbsinator personally, I find it impossible to even listen to a broadcast from a US source. If I have no choice, then I usually just mute the game.

  • @Iac19.78
    @Iac19.78 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I barely pay attention to the NHL but I go to about 30 junior hockey games a season in southern Ontario Canada. It's local, much easier to get to, much more affordable as a fan and it's great, competative hockey.

  • @richardmahfouz4392
    @richardmahfouz4392 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Not just the NHL, but the NBA and NFL are way down as well, there are many reasons but the main one is these leagues being run by bad commishioners who allowed their leagues to embrace 'woke' ism which turned off the majority of their fan bases, and many fans have not and will never return. The NFL is so alarmed by their drop in ratings that theyre gonna have the Commanders bring back the Redskins name that they should have never changed to begin with, but as I said they enbraced 'woke' ism and that was a big mistake.

  • @matrix-5466
    @matrix-5466 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    How to save the NHL:
    1. Stop the constant betting ads
    2. Get better and more committed sponsors
    3. Stop shutting out fans on ESPN when they want to watch a game
    4. Advertise yourself better and stop with the constant team rebrandings

    • @bodanlunny1323
      @bodanlunny1323 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Let a Canadian team win maybe because Many fans have had enough watching th is ridiculous bullshit 3 decades after it was already improbable

  • @Fenrirmaster30
    @Fenrirmaster30 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Bettman needs to be gone. He's needed to be gone since the 2013 lockout!

  • @jaypence332
    @jaypence332 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Board Ads

    • @ethanparker7900
      @ethanparker7900 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      yes those digital ads are ridiculous.

  • @johnsm-bq7ct
    @johnsm-bq7ct 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    NBA viewership is plummeting. Copying the NBA is a bad idea 😂

  • @GusLadeas
    @GusLadeas หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Hockey has been pasteurized, homogenized & sanitized "for your protection". THAT'S WHY. Trying too hard to lure in "casuals", the "diehards" have stopped watching.

  • @zombiejesus7445
    @zombiejesus7445 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    1:21 you just compared the first game of a season to playoff games..... That is a very very weak opening point

  • @Bill-h1s
    @Bill-h1s 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Not being able to watch games due to blackouts makes it hard to connect with the players therefore we lose interest in watching at all

  • @Dovelunalove
    @Dovelunalove หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    katleyn did not transcend her sport. and she does not have a flair for trash talk. that’s where you lost me 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @nalsra0
      @nalsra0 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Trash talking thing wasn’t true, but she is definitely transcending the sport like crazy, have you been living under a rock?

    • @kiroolioneaver8532
      @kiroolioneaver8532 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Simple question: do people who do not watch women's basketball know who Caitlin Clark is? If the answer is "yes" (which it is) then she transcends her sport lol

    • @mattcardarelli
      @mattcardarelli 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      She has the personality of a door

  • @teds5396
    @teds5396 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wokism is ruining all sports not just hockey. I refuse to watch hockey if there's a woman in the booth, taking the place of a more qualified man

  • @Shurehlm
    @Shurehlm หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    This is what happens when you expand too far and too fast into non-hockey markets.

    • @bodanlunny1323
      @bodanlunny1323 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Right and conversely make sure Canadian fans don’t win one and take them for fools and many are still stunned about reality

    • @Shurehlm
      @Shurehlm 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@bodanlunny1323 Yep. Canadian fans are guaranteed, so the NHL owners, players, and refs don't gain anything by a Canadian team winning the Cup. This introduces a lot of perverse incentives to favour American teams, even if they are dying in the desert.

  • @TheCoquifrog
    @TheCoquifrog 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Sorry but hockey players will never meet that personality standard that other league players have. Hockey players have always been extremely cold and bland when it comes to personality off the ice and idk y. They come off as awkward or rude and it’s been like that forever. The only players that had decent personalities was pk subban and he’s the worst and Paul Biz and he was a nobody in the league.

  • @christopherdachille5167
    @christopherdachille5167 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    ESPN shoving DEI down our throats. Why is Emily Kaplan on a teams bench sticking a microphone in a coaches face asking stupid questions during a heated playoff game. Now they have a woman calling games.

    • @Max-bi8fn
      @Max-bi8fn 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You don’t get pussy if that bothers you 😂

  • @billmarshall2536
    @billmarshall2536 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The NHL was never the dominant professional sport, especially in the US. If it's having issues, they're self-inflicted by the insane cost of going to a game, and the pain in the butt it is finding games on streaming services to watch.

  • @HomeSchool4You
    @HomeSchool4You หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    They are greedy and have overpriced their tickets. Many fans have stopped going. It's mostly corporate tickets now.

  • @mutleymutley7474
    @mutleymutley7474 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What's killing hockey, like all other sports, is greed. Greed is everywhere! Greed operates TV viewership. Greed operates in ticket sales. Greed operates concession prices. Greed operates the salaries. And greed will eventually kill the sport. Fans have limited income for entertainment and when they reach that limit, they will just walk away.

  • @MrSteveo1180
    @MrSteveo1180 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I love hockey, and would happily pay 40-50$CAD a month to enjoy whatever hockey games i want, when i want, the blackouts are brutal, and i won't pay for any hockey until i can get it all in one place at a reasonable price, including a back log of older games i missed to due being busy. NHL is worth billions, make your own streaming site and sell memberships, they'll make way way more money that way.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The not being able to select your broadcast was the one that did it for me. I'm a jets fan, I can only hear a commentator mention Hellybuyck 500 times in a night, for so many days a year. The Jets are a depth team, and if you think our 1c is our captain you can't commentate on the team. It's just unwatchable when you can't get the home broadcast.

    • @MrSteveo1180
      @MrSteveo1180 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dixonhill1108 true, you should also be able to choose the home or away broadcast for any NHL game you want.

  • @M_11_m41n
    @M_11_m41n หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    It feels like every sport is declining in viewership at some point or another...

    • @JosephRocco-mi4cm
      @JosephRocco-mi4cm 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Not the NFL or college football.

  • @foghornleghorn5140
    @foghornleghorn5140 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The NHL has no clue, it’s that simple. Too many teams, TV schedules are all over the map, gotta pay extra to watch , blackouts, too much focus on betting, etc … The NHL better pray that the Leafs don’t win the cup because that’s when the steep decline in ratings will happen.

    • @tonys6538
      @tonys6538 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@foghornleghorn5140 No danger in Leafs winning the cup. They will always choke in the big games.

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "The NHL. We hate fans." That should be their motto.

    • @cjm8160
      @cjm8160 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why would the Leafs winning lead to a decline in viewership?

    • @tombardsley3081
      @tombardsley3081 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There isn’t too many teams. It’s the same number as the NFL

    •  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tombardsley3081 except hockey has about 10% of the talent pool

  • @webbberman
    @webbberman 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great insight. Well done!

  • @johnmoroney5258
    @johnmoroney5258 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Still rather watch hockey than football or wnba.

  • @KashSheikh786
    @KashSheikh786 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    NHL went too woke. People tuned out

  • @bobbobertson7568
    @bobbobertson7568 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    In Detroit the Wings would be on EVERY night if you had basic cable. Now some don't get most of the games if they got comcast, others still have to get ESPN+ to get additional. Jerkoffs and their short sighted money grab are penny-wise, pound foolish. Probably a stupid MBA told them to do this. It's a total turnoff it's like the hell with them. The NBA sucks too. NHL was never "dominant" but had a good core audience that they're losing now.

  • @joksal9108
    @joksal9108 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    “Even MLB post season games outpaced NHL games…”. WTF?
    This whole sports thing isn’t something you know much about.

  • @datriaxsondor590
    @datriaxsondor590 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Like everything else through the history of time, greed destroys, and never, ever creates.

  • @junkbot2.1
    @junkbot2.1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sailing the seven seas to search for buried hockey treasure is akin to trying to find water in a lake. Incredibly easy and incredibly free.

  • @Pazara61
    @Pazara61 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Keep a market like Buffalo in the basement; continue to lose popularity, it's that simple.

    • @imalegendofsomething6838
      @imalegendofsomething6838 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, i want Buffalo Sabres playoffs back so bad.

    • @visionquest520
      @visionquest520 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes Bettman always so concerned about "new" markets forgets about markets that have die hard fans. As an oiler fan I can relate. McDavid winning the cup would have been great for the sport. Instead it goes to a market that doesn't support it's team when it's losing.😊

  • @garymauk2963
    @garymauk2963 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    TV ratings is an area the NHL has always struggled with. It's a regional/niche sport compared to NBA, MLB, NFL. Hockey is best as a live sport. It has its place firmly in 4th. The individual markets are mostly strong, attendance is strong that also happens to be what the league relies on more than the other sports, gate receipts. It can be difficult for the newcomer to the game to understand by watching a TV broadcast., largely because of how fast paced the game is. Also, due to the fracturing of TV and streaming it can be very difficult to find the place your team is playing. There isn't a simple one stop shop they way center ice used to be.

  • @rolandchretien694
    @rolandchretien694 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    It’s the shinny hockey league now. They could probably play with just shin pads. No hitting and no passion.

    • @bodanlunny1323
      @bodanlunny1323 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yup and Bettman won the Stanley cups 3 decades in a row

  • @WarioSaysSo
    @WarioSaysSo หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    The 5 biggest strikes against hockey.....
    1. Bad TV/streeming covering of the league - Also over-priced costs that combined with bad covering just kills it for people.
    2. The attendence/ticket prices are INSANE high and with this economy, it is not sustainble (Thanks Biden-nomics).
    3. That NHL have not allowed the NHL players participate in the Olympics (2018 & 2022) is a real back-burner. The best international exposure/publicity for hockey is the Olympics
    as that is one of the most watched events.
    4. Hockey as a sport itself have become a rich-man sport, where only parents who have more spending money can afford having there children to play hockey.
    The equipment is INSANELY expensive alone, and add all the time it demands for parents to be involved also makes it difficult when todays parents must work a lot more.
    5. There are not enough ice rinks able to be played at for kids and youngsters.

    • @Jakezillagfw
      @Jakezillagfw หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bingo.

    • @braddyboy82
      @braddyboy82 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Just so I am understanding you correctly -- before Biden was elected, ticket prices were cheap? And Biden is to blame for ticket prices, too?

    • @mbuckley3828
      @mbuckley3828 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@braddyboy82 I think what they were getting at with their Biden statement was, as bad as inflation has gotten, a good part of society doesn't have the same disposable income they had before inflation blew up like it did. With that being the case, many hockey fans may no longer be able to attend games now or may have even cut off their NHL viewing subscription packages because they need that money for more pressing needs now.

    • @WarioSaysSo
      @WarioSaysSo หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@braddyboy82 No that was still expensive. Biden took credit for the economics that caused the inflation, and the lock-downs combined with vast-printing of "free" money drained its values = great part of the whole inflation.

    • @Helvigster
      @Helvigster หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@braddyboy82 a lot of people seem to be under the impression that Biden is the cause of everything that has gone wrong in America over the past 4 years, quite literally everything. even though Biden himself had nothing to do with the exorbitant ticket prices, it's still his fault because typically Americans need someone else to blame for things other than themselves since there's no accountability for one's actions all too much, so it's just easier to blame the guy in charge of the country instead

  • @EctoJoe
    @EctoJoe หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I sort of get tired of the whole..."It's too expensive of a sport for kids to play" I used to play street hockey all the time. All you need is a stick, a ball, and a trash can.

  • @andrew6226
    @andrew6226 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This point is probably irrelevant but the idea that “hockey is made for this short-attention span era” made me think of it. You know what we have on our side? If you walk into Barnes and noble (US book store chain) 75% of the sappy romance sex novels for women revolve around some hockey player. It’s “in” right now for girls, so it’s a great time to take advantage and insert it into pop culture. Get more people to play too! The only thing I fear is making the game a joke by having inauthentic drama on twitter, or changing the attitude of the game. This game is about class too and we have to remember that.

  • @pacificcoasthockey3919
    @pacificcoasthockey3919 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Equipment can easily exceed thousands of dollars actually. That said I grew up in a household where my parents didn’t make a ton of money and I wanted to play hockey so we got a lot of my initial gear from a Play it Again Sports for a fraction of the price. Nowadays Sideline Swap is a good option as well. I also started out playing roller hockey which is more accessible.. still to this day there are a couple local outdoor roller hockey rinks I skate on once a week when I can’t make it out on the ice. My point is.. it’s what you make of it. If you really have a desire to play.. there is a path. I also think teams and players are making an effort to showcase themselves a bit more. Not an overnight process but more a work in progress.

    • @nalsra0
      @nalsra0 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hockey is definitely not a common sport for children to start since it’s a privileged sport, not only can equipment be expensive but youth teams charge thousands to play a season. Whereas kids can pick up a football or basketball and play for $40 a season. Hockey will never be as common for children as the other main sports

  • @Unpeturbed
    @Unpeturbed หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Used to purchase the NHL App for $159/year which allowed me to watch any game with a choice of home or away broadcaster. Now, In my province; Saskatchewan, the Montreal Canadiens are blacked out. As if I could drive 3000km to the game. It’s ridiculous. The Roger’s subscription ($259/year) does not have the choices the NHL App had. Consequently, I do without, and catch the occasional game when they are available. Hockey Night in Canada is just not the same anymore. Sad, cause hockey was the only major sport I watched.

  • @AFiercePanda
    @AFiercePanda หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Honestly, I watch games through streams I find online and even though it's free for me I can barely stand to watch NHL games with the animating ads on the boards. It is SO DISTRACTING. And often times the ads are brighter than they should be which makes my eyes want to focus on them. That's probably the reason they are brighter than the ice but I'm TRYING TO WATCH HOCKEY NOT STARE AT ADS.

    • @akapper57
      @akapper57 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is what happens when your #1 objective is not the game itself, but maximizing advertising revenues. It's hard to believe that up until about 1990, nearly all the NHL rinks were ad free... nothing on the ice, glass or even the boards.

  • @jollyroger6135
    @jollyroger6135 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I agree that today NHL players don’t make as big of a cultural impact as other leagues. It used to be better though. During the 90s, Wayne Gretzky was definitely a “cultural icon” that most Americans knew at least knew about. Same can definitely be said about Mario Lemieux or Jamir Jagr