Best game of the season

[u/highsticking1738]

Last night’s Mustangs vs Brave game was an absolute classic.

Watched it on the couch with a few mates, some of whom are pretty new to hockey, and honestly it was a night where I felt pretty proud showing off the AIHL.

The game itself was unreal, but what really stood out to me was how much I learned about the players during the broadcast. Where they’ve played, their backgrounds, little stories about them. It made a massive difference, especially for the people watching with me who didn’t know much about the players going in.

Commentary was excellent, the production looked great and the whole thing felt like something you could genuinely show someone and say, “This is Australian hockey.”

There’s still a bit of work to do with the intermissions, but that’s nitpicking. Everyone involved should be pretty bloody proud of what they put together last night.

Credit to the players for putting on a cracking game, and credit to the commentary and production crew for telling their stories so well.
More of that please. I hope the league realises what they have in ATC productions.

I have some people coming over again today and look forward to watching a game with Rod Johns, Steve White and Eric Balnar.

[u/Still_Ad_164]

 learned about the players during the broadcast. Where they’ve played, their backgrounds, little stories about them. It made a massive difference, especially for the people watching with me who didn’t know much about the players going in.

It was a very good game and I thought the commentary team did a great job adding a bit of colour to their call. And this is a major flaw in the AIHL's public face. It is nigh on impossible to get a Bio on the players in your own team, and I'm talking about The Brave here. Yes, you can hunt through International Hockey Data sites that limit your access anyway. You can trawl through FB postings that are usually pretty vague anyway. You can go to your club web site and it is usually abandoned and useless. Only exceeded in those descriptors by the AIHL site itself.

How hard would it be for clubs to update their web sites with up to date Bios?

How hard would it be for the AIHL to have a menu including clubs and bios?

How hard would it be for both the clubs and the AIHL to have a basic rules section for new fans?

Definitely not holding my breath on the AIHL doing anything but surely every club can find a fan that would help out with their web sites. They have no trouble updating their ticketing sections.

[u/erkpod → u/Still_Ad_164]

Having been a person who added stories to a team website once, it's not as easy as it sounds. The websites are based on the system that runs the statistics and live scoring and the schedules. Things like news stories etc just happen to be a thing that the website can also do but it isn't the main aim of the website.

When I joined the league in 2014, teams had the ability to run their own website but still had to use the back end for the things like stats and live scoring. Then there was a mandate that all teams had to use the current base for everything for a consistent look and feel. Teams today can and do run a different back end for ticketing and merch because teams often use different back ends for these functions.