Last night while watching the Bruins’ double overtime loss to Montreal, I noticed something I’ve only casually noticed before.<\/p>\n
The time keepers suck.<\/p>\n
Think of how many times you’ve been watching a hockey game and the referee has blown the whistle. \u00a0If you watch the clock, there’s between half a second and a couple of seconds that tick by before the time keeper stops the clock.<\/p>\n
Not a big deal, right?<\/p>\n
Now imagine that happens close to a hundred times — that’s roughly how many face offs there were in last night’s game.<\/p>\n
That’s nearly two full minutes of hockey that are lost due to the delay between the whistle and the clock stop.<\/p>\n
Sometimes they’ll go back and reset the clock if it’s close to the end of the game, but most times they just ignore that time. \u00a0Imagine what a team trying to come back from behind and win could do with two extra minutes of a hockey game. \u00a0That’s an extra 3% of playtime.<\/p>\n
Now, imagine that the time keeper didn’t have to stop the clock. Imagine if (in my imaginary world where I could make things instead of just think them up), the\u00a0whistle<\/strong> stopped the clock.<\/p>\n The whistle hasn’t been improved upon since it was invented (that’s a complete guess, I have no idea and no inclination to do the research), but imagine a bluetooth or wifi whistle that connected to the time system. When the ref blows the whistle, the clock stops immediately.<\/p>\n Wouldn’t you want your team to get those few precious seconds back every time the whistle blows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night while watching the Bruins’ double overtime loss to Montreal, I noticed something I’ve only casually noticed before. The time keepers suck. Think of how many times you’ve been watching a hockey game and the referee has blown the whistle. \u00a0If you watch the clock, there’s between half a second and a couple of seconds that tick by before the time keeper stops the clock. Not a big deal, right? Now imagine that happens close to a hundred times — that’s roughly how many face offs there were in last night’s game. That’s nearly two full minutes of hockey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[193,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n