A friend of mine always makes fun of the fact that I love hockey. To him it's a bunch of guys on skates whacking each other with sticks. Yet he loves to watch guys driving around in circles for hours at a time. Oh well, to each his own.

I can kind of understand doing the commercials that way, if it was handled well, because it's not like other sports where there are natural breaks in the action. But of course, they're using it as an opportunity to ramp up the number of commercials. But, there's money involved, so it's not surprising.