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Originally Posted by dyna mo
everything comes with an advertsising cost, have you tried to read a news link on your phone? pop ups, install our app, more popups, auto run video commercials, all before you can even get to the news story.
besides, the # of vendors willing to pay top dollar to air a commercial is a testimony to how exciting the game is to watch. the # of commercials has no impact on that excitment as viewership numbers climb. just like roger goodal being a douchenozzle has very little impact on viewership.
i'd bet a hockey broadcast of a 60 minute hockey game lasts close to 3 hours.
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Hockey is a fast paced game while the play is going. So why does the average NHL game last two hours and twenty minutes. This NHL average game length is the second quickest among the four major professional sports. The only professional sport that completes their games quicker is the National Basketball Association. The NBA game length average is just 5 minutes less than that of the NHL. The National Football League and Major League Baseball are over the three-hour average.
So why are sixty minute regulation games taking over two hours. Here are some very interesting facts that determine the length of the game.
The average number of stoppages in an NHL game is 81.
Averages per NHL game:
Off-sides: 16
Icings: 9
Goals: 5
Penalties: 5
TV Time-outs: 12
incidental stoppages 34 ? (non-penalized skirmishes, puck leaving rink, puck frozen, etc).