YouTube Wins Superskills

Folks past a certain age are always suspected of being behind the times when it comes to modern technology.
Back in the day when the VCR was first invented, the joke was always that those people always had 12 o'clock flashing.
They were so behind the teckie times that they couldn't even set the clock, let alone program a future recording.

I am not from that generation.
I am sure I was way ahead of the curve when it came to the computer and the internet.
It took me 2 years of searching before I finally bought my first in 1993.
I bothered my friend Richard, a professor of such things at Bryant University in Rhode Island so often that he finally told me if I kept waiting for the ultimate in newness, I might as well wait forever.

It is with this information that I tell you that I still live in a VCR world.
No DVD recorder, no Tivo.
Right now I'm trying to keep up with golf technology and 2 kids.

As Saturday night unfolded, I decided to 'TAPE' the superskills competition on CBC from Hockey Night in Canada.

I smartly checked the TV times which is always 99 and 44/100 % purely accurate.
It read:
NHL Superskills 7:00 to 9 P.M.
Lousy TV movie starts at 9.
So I set the recording for those 2 hours and watched other stuff with my wife.

When the other stuff ended, I popped in the Superskills tape.
As boredom set in.
Saucer passes, YAWN...Fastest skater, DOUBLE YAWN...Accuracy shooting...SNORE !

Fast forward, that's what I'll do...Yeah !
The new contest...The breakaway fancy shot, showoff thing!

Fast forward....Fast forward...Fast forward.
Oh No!

Who’s the techno goof now?
Why could I have ever thought that they'd pull this 2 hour show off in 2 hours?
Didn't even get a sniff of the competition.

Off to the Net!
It's almost midnight, and it's not on line...Not CBC, not nhl.com.

Sunday morning and I’ve got to see it.
CBC...the best they can do is a 4 minute hi lites package of finalists Ryan Getzlaf and Alexandre Ovechkin.
NHL.com...The breakaway shootout buried in a 13 minute package including other events.
Versus..The NHL right holder in the U.S. had a few hi lites of the best in the event.
CBC,NHL,Versus...thanks for next to nothing.

YouTube had it all, from start to finish in 2 files.

Note to NHL:
I know you wanted a YouTube moment, but you didn't have to make people go there to find it !