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"H. Wade Minter" <minter.RemoveThis@lunenburg.org> wrote in message
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> Anyone else worried that since the DVD is being produced by national
> groups
> (Warner Home Entertainment, NHL Corporate) instead of local (CanesVision),
> it'll be bland and generic?
>
> --Wade

You can count on it. When my Red Sox won in 2004, there were 2 videos put
out; one by MLB and one by NESN (New England Sports Network). The one put
out by NESN was far better and had local flavor; the fans, the Red Sox
broadcasters and Boston newscasters. Now if only my Bruins could give me
such a problem as to worry about who his making their championship DVD's.
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guys, I bought the DVD today and it easily exceeded my expectations.
The DVD made after the 2002 Cup run was good, but the quality of this
far superior in both footage and production. It's even in high
definition.

Easily worth $24.95 (what's that, 3 beers at the RBC?)
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On 11 Jul 2006 09:20:24 -0700, "zappa" <zappa27513.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>i probably won't buy the dvd. when i want to re-live the glory, i just
>watch Game 7 again. i think i've watched it 3 times already!

Watched it for the first time since I saw it live last night. It's
funny how you forget about things, or miss them entirely.

I bought the DVD and tried to check it out at work but got some
license error. Forgot to bring it home tonight...boo.
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ted_nc <turquhart DeleteThis @nc.rr.com> wrote:
> guys, I bought the DVD today and it easily exceeded my expectations.
> The DVD made after the 2002 Cup run was good, but the quality of this
> far superior in both footage and production. It's even in high
> definition.
>
> Easily worth $24.95 (what's that, 3 beers at the RBC?)

Does it have much of a local flavor, or "This is how the national media
saw things"?

Any fun extras?

--Wade
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"ted_nc" <turquhart DeleteThis @nc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> guys, I bought the DVD today and it easily exceeded my expectations.
> The DVD made after the 2002 Cup run was good, but the quality of this
> far superior in both footage and production. It's even in high
> definition.
>
> Easily worth $24.95 (what's that, 3 beers at the RBC?)
>

Did they have the locker room celebration and post game interviews (and
other stuff that NBC heartlessly cut out)? I saw the DVD for sale at Sam's
Club yesterday for $17.99 and was very tempted to buy it but wanted to wait
for Caniacs reviews on it. Sounds like that is about as cheap as you'll
find it.
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:25:00 GMT, "H. Wade Minter"
<minter DeleteThis @lunenburg.org> wrote:

>Does it have much of a local flavor, or "This is how the national media
>saw things"?

Hmm...yes and no. It was a national media production, but for
instance they followed Kevyn Adams around for a day. There's lots of
behind the scenes stuff, of course, and the kind of on-ice talk that
*should* be presented in those "Mic'd Up" spots they love to pump up.

The main part of the DVD is a recount of the entire year and lasts
about 1.5 hours. There's probably lots of footage in there that you
haven't seen...I know a lot was new to me.

>Any fun extras?

Bonus stuff includes:

- Game 7 in its (near) entirety. It is the NBC broadcast, but it is
in widescreen format. I'm guessing that it isn't in HD, but it does
show more of the ice than standard 4:3 does. If you have a widescreen
TV you'll love it, but on a standard TV it reduces the overall size of
the picture. Still, I'd rather have in widescreen. Probably for disk
space, the broadcast doesn't have hardly any replays. But it does
have much of the immediate on-ice celebration, up until the point that
Staal hoists the Cup. I noticed that Davidson mentions that "this
building is going to erupt when Erik Cole hoists that Cup" yet there
telecast ends premature to that occurring.

- Game 7 post-game locker room speeches by Laviolette, Brind'Amour
and Wesley. Way too short...I was chomping at the bit to watch this
and it was finished just as I was getting warmed up.

- "Vignettes" on Staal, Ward, Whitney, and Commodore. They were all
good, with some home-movie footage of the Staal's home rink in Thunder
Bay, but again, too short.

- For whatever reason, it includes a song played by some unknown
band. Of course the song is very bland and doesn't belong on the DVD,
but whatever possessed the producers to include it is beyond me.

- NHL promotional shorts, the "My Stanley Cup" commercials. The last
one is Brind'Amour's. I never saw it, and I wonder if it wasn't done
posthumously.

- "Best of the playoffs" featurette. Again, very short.

Overall: well worth your $20.
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:30:14 GMT, "Ron LeBlanc"
<confidential DeleteThis @confidential.com> wrote:

>Did they have the locker room celebration and post game interviews (and
>other stuff that NBC heartlessly cut out)?

Well, yes and no. There is some locker room footage, but it's in
snippets. I don't know when the NBC coverage ended that night, but
the DVD's end to Game 7 is right after about half the team hoists the
Cup. Sort of an abrupt end, too. Still, I saw things on the DVD from
the locker rooms that I didn't see in the many streaming videos that I
saw on CH.com and NHL.com (you should check out NHL.com's video
section if you haven't...tons of locker room celebration).

>I saw the DVD for sale at Sam's Club yesterday for $17.99

Yep, cheap as you'll find it.

Get it, you'll be glad you did.
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