Dear TV producers: One fan’s six small requests for the 2024-25 season

While the never-ending dead zone of the offseason drags on, we’re actually getting close to meaningful hockey. Rookie camps are already happening, and the real training camps will open soon. From there, we’ll only have to get past a few weeks of “best shape of his life” chatter, awkward PTOs, and half-speed preseason games before things finally start to matter.

That means that it’s also the time of year when the TV broadcasters are holed up in the spacious meeting rooms in their office towers, holding top-secret meetings to plan out what their coverage for the new season will look like. (Note: I have no idea if this is true.) And that’s good, because this post is for them.

I have a few requests.

Nothing unreasonable. I know that some fans have big-picture changes they’d love to see from the league’s TV partners, but that’s not the point of today’s post. Instead, I’ve got what I think are a half-dozen relatively minor tweaks I’d love to see to the broadcasts. OK, sure, it’s basically a list of pet peeves that I’d like to see addressed, and maybe they only apply to me. But that’s fine, because I’m the main character and everything the NHL does should be tailored to my individual whims, so I’m sure the TV big wigs will be hanging on every word.

Grab a note pad, TV producers and directors, and get ready to make your product way better… at least in one viewer’s eyes.

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