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1. Are we really not getting announcers or even rink audio? Just shitty music over the stream?

2. Must be “Come disguised as an empty seat” day!

3. Can someone do the commentary for me?

4. God this is horrible. It’d be better with no noise. How can they botch this so bad? Jaime Faulkner has sucked at every decision involving the broadcasts since she was hired

5. On the blackhawks.com stream, is it me or is there only music and no announcers?

   Also, it’s gonna suck if the whole season is like this.

6. You can tell these guys are trying hard to get a spot on the roster

7. What the actual fuck is this stream?

8. Did Crevier get bigger to anyone else?

9. I just want to know who though that music instead of hearing in-arena sounds was the way to go tonight

10. One positive note. The stream quality in terms of video seems much better today. The audio is nauseating, it’s like if Imagine Dragons younger brother made AI music. So hard to pay attention.

11. Shoot the puck Nolan Allan!

12. 7:30 in before the Hawks get their 1st SOG.

13. Shame. The organization legitimately needs to feel immense shame. This is the worst broadcast attempt in modern sports history. Just bring the dog out back. Wow. Please please fire whoever decided this and make sure then never work in this realm again. In fact force that person to sit in a room and listen to this shitty music they picked for this stream on loop for eternity. A small child would have a better solution to this.

14. Well, I tried streaming WGN radio along side the game feed, but it’s so out of sync it’s not really viable.

    Edit: You can pause the game stream and let the radio audio catch up. Actually works.

15. That’s where im at

16. Fucking Hawkvision all over again . Way to kill off all the excitement of Hockey coming back

17. Ok, popped into the Wings thread. They are hearing the same shit. At least it’s not Kid Rock the whole time?! This does suck though.

18. You can stream the wgn radio audio from their website. Just pause the video stream and let the radio audio catch up and you’re good to go. Sucks we have to do that, but it definitely works and is way better than shitty music.

19. Just tuned it. Guess it’s preseason form for everyone then?

20. Franks gonna need some time in Rockford

21. If there’s a lesson to be learned, at least we know now that deaf people have an entirely different experience with hockey. It’s not as great if I was to be honest.

22. …is there no generic 90s grunge sounding music in their catalog?

23. Feel sorry for Detroit fans if they’ve always been subjected to replays while the game is in progress.

24. Hey, but at least they figured out the dumbass filters for people’s faces! Priorities in Detroit.

25. I will give him credit, Soderblom looks good so far

26. 

    Oh yeah, this one is my favorite!

27. Hey! Audio!!

28. Can barely hear anything on the ice, but beggars can’t be choosers! This is so much better! I was just starting to get into that third song.

29. Either the director or the AD is an idiot. Stop going to replays while the game is in progress.

30. Well now that we know we are getting a jumbotron feed, that Kane mullet fan was too thirsty for that t-shirt. Grow up!

31. I haven’t seen a lot of either game, but the bit I have seen still looks like any Hawks offense is low danger nothing burgers while the Wings have way higher danger scoring opportunities. Anything in the Hawks offensive zone is a grenade pass and easy shots somewhere toward the net kinda-sorta.

32. These announcers make me appreciate ours so much more.

33. Chicago Wolves mentioned

34. I don’t know what Davidson was thinking with two years for Brodie. He was cooked with the Leafs and sure has looked as much for these two games so far.

35. Impressed with Soderblom tonight.