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And yet, the NBC production was crisper, frequently with extra unique but awfully helpful camera angles that provided perfect sightlines to the puck and any action around it. They integrated graphics into the action that far surpassed anything I have seen any place else. It’s difficult to credit this came from the network that, thirty years back, gave us the late, unlamented Peter Puck. That was the cartoon personality NBC invented during their first, unsuccessful try to broadcast hockey (don’t forget your air hockey game table). The last feature hockey required then, or now, is a reversion to kids’ programing in the middle of a sportscast that wants to be taken more seriously by the adult Yank market. It is also good to see technology utilized in more refined terms.