NHL Connect
You are watching the last minutes of the game between Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings. You are rooting for the Penguins, who are down by just one goal. You are hoping they will manage one goal so that the game goes at least into overtime. However, to your horror, your team misses an easy chance to score a goal. As you watch in disbelief, the Red Wings celebrate their victory and you wish there was someone with whom you could share your frustration! Someone who knows the game well and was passionate about it. What if we told you that there was such a person, in fact, thousands of them with whom you could discuss hockey, any day, any time you wanted. Let us introduce you to NHL Connect, the mega hockey social networking site started by NHL and meant entirely for fans like you.
Currently social networking sites are a rage on the Internet and just about everybody has a profile up in one of these sites. Through these social networking sites, people with common interests share their thoughts, opinions, even photos, videos and music. However, if you are a real hockey fan and cannot stop speaking about hockey, chances are not many of your friends on Facebook are going to stay around and listen. In comes NHL Connect to give you exactly that – a place where hockey fans can come together, connect with other hockey fans, share their photos or videos and create their own blogs or groups. Just like Facebook or MySpace but without any additional clutter; pure hockey and nothing else.
Signing up for NHL is a breeze – you need to fill up some information about yourself like your favorite hockey players, favorite NHL team, favorite sports team, even favorite books and movies. Once you sign up, you will find it much easier to find friends and make friends since there is certainly one common interest – hockey. Within minutes of signing up, you will receive requests from members asking to be counted as your friends.
On NHL Connect, you can send messages about hockey, post hockey-related photos and hockey-related videos. If you are a follower of a particular national team, you can join the fan group of that team.
One of the most noteworthy features of NHL Connect is the mostly friendly nature of all the members on the site. Though passions run high and discussions go on for long hours, people are just genuinely interested in the game. Further, NHL Connect is content to allow its members to do all the interacting, exchange opinions, post pictures or videos. Unlike other social networking sites, there is no suggestion to befriend someone or a request to take a special quiz. Members on NHL Connect are free to share their interests and ideas about hockey, when they feel like it, with other members in the NHL community.
As you can see, NHL Connect offers serious hockey fans the opportunity to share their interest in hockey with thousands like them and at the same time create multimedia personal profiles or group pages to exchange ideas.