Funny thing as I walked pit road after driver introductions yesterday at the LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway, I come to a car that has a nickname for me. Naturally i had its crew film me with it!
Home-ice advantage doesn’t become more evident than when we media folks converge on the locker rooms after a game and see the stark differences between gilded opulance in the home dressing room compared to the utilitarian spartaneity of the visitors’. This clip is from after Game 2 as I run between the Detroit and Pittsburgh sides to try and photograph players giving interviews.
For many NHL hockey games, sports photographers will install remote-triggered cameras in the rafters of an arena to capture the over-the-ice angles that are so sweet when made perfectly. This is a view from my hip as I took up my own camera to mount before Game 2 of this year’s Stanley Cup Finals game in Detroit. See if you can count the total number of remote camera positions!
Here’s a brief teaser to a glimpse of the Detroit Red Wings locker room, seen after they took a 2-0 lead in the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals against the Pittsburg Penguins, in the bowels of Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Mich.
Check back for more clips as I go through the extra stuff from Game 2.