So, I have something in the works but between the tearjerker that I decided to watch yesterday afternoon, Boomer being super demanding and ultra borky, and my head being in a bad space, I didn’t finish that article. And at 10:17pm, I’m not finishing it tonight either. I’m not sure it will be good but it will be done for tomorrow.
Let me tell you something: the new broadcast partner of ESPN+ (available in the US as a package with Hulu and Disney+) is pretty neat. It’s super easy to open the Hulu app and see all the games that are available to watch. Around 7pm, the game was Toronto at Ottawa from a TSN feed. We decided that neither of us wanted to watch that. Later on, when tucking in Boomer, I was able to watch Florida at Dallas from the Dallas market. I could also watch the Oilers take on the Jets. I could have switched between either or put one game on one TV and the other on another device. So cool. Ultimately, I decided to tune into the Seattle Kraken tasking on the Flames in Calgary. It seemed to be a Seattle feed with John Forslund interviewing Brandon Tanev for most of the 10 minutes I’ve seen so far.
I forgot that Dan Vladar was traded to the Flames. He was in net.
I know it’s a small sample size, but I’m enjoying this variety. It’s exactly what I hoped would happen when they announced the broadcast partners and when they announced that they would do away with the domestic version of NHL.tv.
What has surprised me is that many teams are playing their stars. Dallas played Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn. Calgary is playing Johnny Gaudreau and Milan Lucic. Seattle is playing, well, just about everyone they drafted.
When we start seeing some of the Bruins roster players and stars? Maybe tonight when they play at the Garden tonight against the Flyers. The game is on at TNT at 7:30pm.
Here’s your roster for tonight, folks.
Bookies look to have got wind of the line up – Bruins are the hottest favourite of tonight’s games
No Charlie Coyle (who might not even be ready yet) or Ullmark, but that’s a plausible regular season lineup
Morning all. I think I’m ready for a nap.
I am going back to bed….. Whacked by the vax! Got it did yesterday,
I thought you got the J & J like a month ago
I made the appointment a while ago… They finally squeezed me in!
Good morning!
Looks like Jo and I will get the espn+ thing through hulu, or whatever. Sling tv has been recommended, as well. Anyone know anything about Sling?
It is a little odd that teams with an 82 game season would ice their veterans rather than giving their prospects and depth players the spotlight in preseason, but it made sense for the Kraken – where literally every player is “the new guy”
It was nice to have a selection of games to watch. I’d noticed that for a couple of sports I don’t watch, and been thinking “Meh, get offa my home screen” but now that it’s NHL hockey, it’s really cool. Normally I’ve had the choice of 1 game on NESN, NBC Sports or NHLN, and usually only one would play a game per night, with lots of blackouts and channel hopping. “The RedSox are on, so the Bruins will be seen on NESN2 (which we only turn on for 10 hours per week) then when the Sox game ends we will switch the game back to the regular NESN channel” or “While NBC owns the rights to this game, there’s some horse racing, so we will play it on one of our lesser affiliates – maybe USA or Spike”
Morning all,
WHAT??!! I hope they’re not planning to do away with the international version, too. They reduced the price this year to $99 – less than £1 to watch each Bruins game – plus, as you say the option to watch any others. I like sometimes catch the manatee on a Saturday.
I witnessed an almost-fight this morning. I expect it’s been on the news over there about the petrol shortage we have. That means every gas station has massive queues leading up to it and tempers get frayed, especially when idiots start filling up jerry cans, water bottles and whathaveyou.
I haven’t owned a car for 13 years, but I was on a bus on Tuesday for what should have been a 20-minute journey and it took an hour. What can you do? Stupid is as stupid does, as a great man once said.
We had a petroleum pipeline shutdown last year, and it was so stupid. People were rushing to the gas station to hoard fuel, with whatever containers they could find.
One problem with this is that gasoline is a big ol’ pile of solvents. So you fill your milk bottle with gas, and by the time you get home, it’s leaking explosive liquid all over your car trunk.
There was one video that went viral showing a woman filling disposable shopping bags with gas. I’m amazed that they lasted long enough to get back to the car. They obviously were spilling a bit over the top, and looked like they were going to burst.
Yep. It’s so dumb. And they don’t realise petrol has a relatively short shelf life. Most of what they hoard is going to be no good. These are the people still with a shed full of toilet paper from last year, no doubt!
Hadn’t heard about the petrol shortage. I do remember the first opec oil embargo in the ’70s. People were only allowed $2 worth of gas at a time…. That was probably 4 gallons back then. There was only one way to hoard… Get your $2 worth, then get back in the long line. It was a mess, and there were fights
No, they would have already. I think that with the extra money they got from selling the rights to ESPN+/ Disney/ ABC and TNT/ HBO, they could find a way to make viewership increase over streaming platforms that are already set up for that.
I mean, I wouldn’t mind if they moved it to Disney. I already have that!