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<\/a>Actual Video Footage of Jared Cowen Skating <\/p><\/div>\n
I don’t want to say that the online feed was difficult to watch, but let’s just say that what the video quality lacked in “herky”, it made up for in spades with “jerky”.\u00a0 The video player in my browser was delivering about six frames per second;\u00a0 as I tweeted earlier this evening<\/a>, it occurred to me that this must be what the world looks like for Matt Carkner after he fights Colton Orr.\u00a0 Anyway, I quickly found myself longing for something slightly easier on the eyes, like for example an epileptic seizure.\u00a0 At one point, I thought the video feed had died completely, as the image on my screen didn’t appear to move at all for an extended period of\u00a0 time.\u00a0 The confusion was cleared up, however, when I realized that the camera was just showing the Senators’ Jared Cowen playing defence.<\/p>\n On the plus side, spending time watching the game using this feed allowed me to appreciate more fully the superior visual technologies available in today’s modern era: things like “flip-book animation”, for example.<\/p>\n I don’t know if anybody else was experiencing the difficulties with this feed that I was, but I sort of assumed that the Maple Leafs’ video servers were crumbling under pressure with so many people watching, just like Maple Leaf goaltenders have been doing since the lockout.\u00a0 I don’t suppose it’s fair for me to wonder aloud whether fault should be found with the Leafs’ IT folks;\u00a0 after all, after several consecutive years of hearing that the team is “building for the future”, who could have possibly known that many Leaf fans might have some interest in seeing what the prospects look like?\u00a0 It’s planning and foresight like this that gave us the Andrew Raycroft\/Vesa Toskala era, folks.<\/p>\n In any event, at some point I saw Jerry D’Amigo with his arms in the air, so I assume he scored a goal.\u00a0 Either that, or he was trying to scare away a bear.\u00a0 I don’t know, it was a little difficult to follow the narrative.\u00a0 Are there many bears in the vicinity of the John Labatt Centre in London?<\/p>\n In the end, I have no insight to bestow upon you.\u00a0 Instead, I give you a photo of the most wicked awesome baby booties ever manufactured – these were given to Spouse and I by a co-worker the other day:<\/p>\n
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