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NHL Season to be Played Virtually

Posted by Zonk on from the virtual-skates-real-fans dept.

Matt Clare writes "G4TechTV will play the regular NHL season via EA Sports NHL game. G4TechTV Canada subsriptions might get a bigger boost than when they picked up Leo Laport."

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  1. Feedback to the NHLPA and the Owners by Plake · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the CBC is doing one on one interviews with Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow about the lockout. So you can give them a piece of your mind.

    You can submit a question here: here

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    1. Re:Feedback to the NHLPA and the Owners by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That was freakin' hilarious! There was a public debate last night that I saw... Yeah, the head of the NHLPA is trying to convince us that the stupidly high ticket prices has NOTHING to do with the stupidly high salaries.

      Dude, don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining.

      As for Laporte, he's ALWAYS been on Tech TV Canada. I think what the person means is, when G4 merged with them, one of the shows that got shitcanned was "Call for Help". Canadians complained, so the Canadian version of the station produces it's own version of the show, hosted by the erstwhile Laporte.

      Wish I could get Tech TV still:(

  2. G4TechTV by alatesystems · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only programming worth anything on G4TechTV are the shows which were on Tech TV. I've WANTED to like other g4 shows, but they suck. Arena: come on, who wants to hear play by plays on an rpg meetup. Cheats: that dude is annoying as hell and totally useless. G4TV: I'd rather watch Saved By The Bell.

    All their shows suck. The only tech tv show they kept that sucked was robot wars. I love the rest of the tech tv shows. I wish they had kept Call For Help(Viva Leo) and Tech Live(tv version of slashdot). I can't believe G4 killed those two.

    I never really learned anything from CFH in terms of computer using skills, but I picked up photoshop skills from Alex and I found out about some great shareware, and I love Leo's personality on tv.

    Kevin and Alex Albrecht are a great team on The Screensavers. I think that is really what keeps me paying all this money for digital cable.

    Chris

  3. Heh by castleguardian · · Score: 3, Funny

    I kicker is that they'll get higher TV ratings than the actual NHL games...

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    1. Re:Heh by Goobermunch · · Score: 3, Interesting

      What's interesting to me is that the games will also air on SportsNet.

      From the article:

      "G4techTV video game hockey highlights will also air on Comcast SportsNet. "We'd rather be televising the live games, but until the real games resume, this presents a fun opportunity to maintain the fans' interest," comments Jack Williams, President and CEO of Comcast SportsNet. "This is a natural and creative extension of G4techTV's video game expertise.""

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  4. ESPN NHL 2005? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I didn't read in the article where it mentions it was going to use EA's NHL 2005 game or any particular game, although the screenshot is that of Sega's ESPN NHL 2005. So what game (or other piece of software) are they going to use for the simulation?

  5. EA NHL by dave-tx · · Score: 3, Interesting
    My experience with the EA NHL series is that is sucks royal ass.

    Then again, I'm a hockey purist and am unlikely to be impressed by much (although I thought Wayne Gretzky 2 by Bethesda was most excellent, but would make for lousy TV broadcast).

    Yes, I'm angry and bitter that I won't plant myself in front of the tube for a season's worth of Flyers games. My wife has a greatly different view on the lockout.

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    1. Re:EA NHL by Cecil · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well, if you think EA NHL sucks, don't even bother with ESPN NHL. What it wins with decent graphics and marginally improved AI, it loses by crashing. Often.
      And 100% reproducably. In the middle of franchise mode. There's one save game down the toilet. And that's out of the box. It apparently gets much more unstable if you are crazy enough to do things like tweak the in-game soundtrack settings.

      Oh, yeah, that and the fantasy teams like the '89 Calgary Flames lose much of their luster when their names get replaced with "C. Center" and "R. Defenseman"

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  6. This is actually nothing new... by ElectroKiwiMonkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I seem to remember back in the mid 90s, during one of the Baseball strikes, some TV station was simulating games on Genesis. Google isn't being my friend today, but I have a very clear memory of EGM running a news item about it at the time.

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  7. Funny thing is... by wan-fu · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they still won't have anyone watching.

  8. G4TechTV/EA by RomSteady · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it just me, or does G4TechTV (and G4 before it) place an inordinate amount of coverage on Electronic Arts titles?

    Every time I flip by the channel, I'm barraged with celebrities plugging EA titles on "Players," or I get a lot of EA interviews on "Icons," or some other ad masquerading as a show.

    I know that EA is the 800-pound gorilla of the industry, but I'd still appreciate seeing more balanced coverage of the industry rather than just coverage of EA LA.

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  9. Play the lockout, too? by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 5, Funny

    So are they going to turn off the computer to emulate the NHL lockout?

  10. Brilliant! by antikarma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Showing a simulation of a sport with consistently low ratings on a channel with consistently low ratings. It's brilliant! If Ted McGinley was the host, they'd when an Emmy for sure.

  11. Leo on the radio by hai.uchida · · Score: 2, Informative
    For the few who don't know, Leo has an excellent radio show on KFI , which does stream live... It's on weekends from 12-3 PST. I believe he also archives the show on his own site.

    As much as I liked him on TV, I like the radio show better... Without the time constraints of a half hour show he can go much deeper into topics.

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  12. No mention of EA Sports NHL 2005 by unclethursday · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There is no mention of either EA Sports' NHL 2005 or Sega Sports' ESPN NHL 2K5 in the press release, and the image shown in the press release is from ESPN NHL 2K5, not EA's NHL 2005.

    To simply assume that it is EA's game is wrong. The press release does not state which game is used, and they could use either/or or both games to get them done.

    The only mention of EA Sports is in talking about their Madden Challenge. No hockey game is mentioned by name in the press release at all.