As I write, the Canadian Junior hockey team is playing Russia for the gold medal in Sweden. It’s a big game, but it’s hard to watch if you’re stuck at work.
Unless you have access to the web.
TSN is broadcasting the game (as well as other games in the tourney) live, on the web. Alas, they have reached maximum capacity, and my hopes of watching the play unfold live have been dashed. It was such a smashing success that they can’t keep up with the volume. I’m stuck with the live scoreboard, which I can pretty much get at any number of places.
Anyway, some guys from work were talking about this at hockey the other day, so I was looking forward to listening to the game at work and being able to switch over and see a reply right away. Maybe next time.
In the meantime it’s still kind of interesting, because I remember how cool it was that we could simply listen to the Canucks games over the web for the first time about 10 or 11 years ago, back when I was still in University. We’d crank up one of the lab machines to point to CKNW so we could listen while we worked on our projects on other machines. We were stoked that we didn’t have to miss any hockey just because we were in school. Good times.
So now we can watch the games live on the web too. Sometimes technology can be pretty nifty.
Update: The Canadians won 4-2 for their third gold medal in a row. Nice job boys.
I watched the last of the game in the fitness center one the tv’s they have suspended over the bikes
There was a ton of people clustered around the one in the lobby there.
I listened to the Canucks make it to the Stanly Cup finals on CKNW and when I was away at university and they only played Toronto games in our area, I listened to the Canucks over the web. I like the audio because I felt like I knew the players better when I had to know their names in order to tell if we were winning
Haha, that’s a good point. Even before the web, when my roommate and I would listen to the games that weren’t on TV, I remember the same effect. You really had to pay attention to understand who was doing what.
It made it that much better, and made me feel more knowledgeable, when next I saw them on TV. Notice there’s nothing here about seeing the Canucks in person – ticket prices have been out of my league for years