1 Min Radio Timeouts?

[Beaner]

Anyone else notice these during the games. They happen now at the 10min mark aprox. of each period.

I hate this new thing the WHL is doing. It completely interupts the flow of the game, a team on its heels now gets a breather to meet with the coach etc.

Not sure if its for the radio or what the heck they were thinking, but this has got to go.

[Sabes]

Yeah the happened here in PA too. Killed the Raiders momentum once because the Blades were tired from an icing call.

[Rebels30]

its so on the radio they can get more comercials in....theres pros and cons of this though

[Tipped Off]

Last night in the Tips game play went on for over 3 minutes without stopping. IT finally stopped at the 9:15 mark because of a Tips penalty. The one minute stoppage allowed the Tips to take a "break" prior to the penalty kill. Even though I'm a Tips fan, and in this case it helped us, I don't like this new thing at all.

[WHEATMAN]

absolutly hate it

[Scout]

With all the new rule changes to speed up the game. What was happening was the radio stations and game announcers never had any time to do the announcements for game sponsors. So effective Nov.4th it became league wide that there would be a minute break in each period so the teams could get in the game sponsor announcements which help teams make money. With so much emphasis on speeding up the game they forgot about the announcements.


Scout

[Beaner]

With all the new rule changes to speed up the game. What was happening was the radio stations and game announcers never had any time to do the announcements for game sponsors. So effective Nov.4th it became league wide that there would be a minute break in each period so the teams could get in the game sponsor announcements which help teams make money. With so much emphasis on speeding up the game they forgot about the announcements.


Scout

Well, I understand the problem they may be having, doesn't mean I have to like it. It really interupts the flow of the game.

Some kind of press release you think would have been in order, unless I just missed it.

[Scout]

I hate it to. And you didn't miss any announcement. I think the league knew people would hate it so just sort of slipped it in.

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[Brad]

The Americans had their sponsors go to 15 second spots to address this problem and it has worked just fine.

[Wildeyes]

i dont mind it Sponsors pay the bills so you have to do anything to help them out

[Beaner]

The Americans had their sponsors go to 15 second spots to address this problem and it has worked just fine.

Now thats a good idea - Nice to see someone thinking.


i dont mind it Sponsors pay the bills so you have to do anything to help them out

So do my season tickets. ;) :D

[rinkrat]

This new rule is called a "referee timeout".It was obviously not thought out by the league.It sounds like a knee jerk reaction for the league to continue recieving the revenue stream from the broadcast "partners".Clearly they,and probably the NHL didn't forsee 2 1/4 hour games.I believe Giants vs Calgary was 2:12.
Several times the timeout has occured with one team on the PP,it gives the PK time to rest and regroup,while momentum is lost and the flow to the game which the leagues are preaching is lost!.
Essentially the WHL brass are chasing their tails.

[fightstrap50]

Is everyone's intermissions cut down to anywhere from 15 to 18 minutes?

Ours was cut a year or more ago and now they want to add more time for advertising. This to me does not make sense, Just make the intermissions 20 minutes long again and solve the whole stupid problem.

What really bugs me, at the Rec-Plex anyways, is when you have a 17 minute intermission on the board and your walking around at the other end or where ever, talking to people and there's 2 minutes left in the break. So you start heading to your seat, then it always seems the players come on right then and the last minute and a half is just gone and play starts.

Meanwhile I have to stand at the top of my section untill a whistle goes and we are allowed to go down. If their was the last two minutes left in the break people could rely on timing it and there is also 2 more minutes for advertising.

So now our intermisions are minus a minute or two almost every night to around 15 minutes. First they want the game faster and now its too fast so they want to slow it down. Retarded.

Now around the league there's a problem so they add in a commercial break and without even being on TV!!

This can be a momentum killer that is not nessesary in Junior hockey.
This is not the NHL and should be fixed in another way.

Just my unimpressed opinion.

[Spungy]

well said Fightstrap50! I was wondering if it was just a PG thing the one minute break but i guess it is just something they slipped in.

i can only imagine if i was still going outside during intermission that there would be no time to get outside and back to my seat in time. 20 minutes was not long enough somedays :D

[Chipper]

Tonight in Cranbrook we were on a PP when it hit the 10 min mark of the third period, there was three whistles that they could have called during the penalty but they never called it until it over. I wonder if they adjusted this a bit for situations like this and keep the momentum going.

[RunTheGoalie]

Is everyone's intermissions cut down to anywhere from 15 to 18 minutes?

Ours was cut a year or more ago and now they want to add more time for advertising. This to me does not make sense, Just make the intermissions 20 minutes long again and solve the whole stupid problem.

That does not solve the problem, as many fans are out on the concourse, or outside smoking and do not hear those ads. Sponsors pay for the announcements during play because that is when the most people will be listening.

Lets face it, several teams rely on PA announcements to generate money. Several radio stations rely on commericals to generate money, which makes it worthwhile to pay these teams for rights to broadcast games.

This is a necessary revenue stream that the WHL has to protect.

Better one 1 minute timeout per period than the two 90 second tv timeouts you see in the NHL.