{"id":21029,"date":"2021-05-10T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:09:49","slug":"camosun-alumnus-announces-hockey-night-in-canada-in-vietnamese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/05\/10\/camosun-alumnus-announces-hockey-night-in-canada-in-vietnamese\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun alumnus announces Hockey Night in Canada<\/em> in Vietnamese"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his time as a hockey player, Wayne Gretzky was known for, seemingly, predicting where the puck would go next\u2014just as you were wondering what he was doing, the puck would show up on his stick. Nexus<\/em> and Camosun Applied Communication (ACP) alumnus Nguyen Hoang Duy, who goes by Jimmy in English, says that being an ice hockey announcer is kind of like that. As part of Hockey Night In Canada<\/em>\u2019s International Night last month, Duy provided commentary in Vietnamese from Vietnam, where he currently lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like a Gretzky way of anticipating the game,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

During his time at Camosun, Duy attended seminars hosted by sports announcers; they focused mostly on the preparation an announcer has to do for a game, like getting to know players and brushing up on stats and news. But Duy says it\u2019s more about predicting what will happen next.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeading up to the games, I had prepared a handful of notes going into it, which, at the game itself, I didn\u2019t think I prepared enough,\u201d he says, \u201cbut then also, on the other side of the token, there just isn\u2019t enough opportunity during the broadcast itself to bring up all of those notes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun alumnus Nguyen Hoang Day (Jimmy, right) in his home recording studio with co-commentator Nguyen Xuan Mai (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sportsnet hosted the event, which enabled Vietnamese speakers living in Canada to hear Duy\u2019s commentating.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that, I basically went into the broadcast assuming that my audience would know a thing or two about hockey already,\u201d he says. \u201cSo, I mean, there are certain hockey terms like a \u2018power play\u2019 or a \u2018faceoff\u2019 or \u2018slap shot\u2019, I would be saying that straight out in English where everybody would already know what I\u2019m talking about, instead of saying everything in full Vietnamese.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, for Duy, commentating is a balancing act.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, you also don\u2019t want to insult your viewer\u2019s intelligence,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

A former communications intern for the Victoria Salmon Kings, Duy fell in love with hockey in the 2006 season, a couple of years after the Salmon Kings came to Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been a soccer fan up until that point,\u201d says Duy. \u201cI had never seen a game of hockey before. A year after that, I got into the fantasy hockey league with the guys at the ACP program and at Nexus<\/em>. It slowly built up my interest in ice hockey to a point where I\u2019m talking about it and watching it everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the time difference between Hanoi, Vietnam and where hockey is being played in Canada, the sport is difficult for Duy to watch live. If Duy were to tune in for the first Hockey Night in Canada<\/em> broadcast at 7 pm Eastern Time, that would be 6 am the next day in Hanoi.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s virtually impossible with the time differences,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Commentating comes back to Gretzky for Duy: it\u2019s not as much about play-by-play as it is about him being able to anticipate what might happen before it does so he can keep up with the fast pace of play.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything happens so quickly,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have the puck on one end of the ice and then a couple seconds later it\u2019s on the other end of the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duy says the experience of commentating was nerve-wracking at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I graduated from the communications program at Camosun,\u201d he says, \u201cI never would have thought that I would be on screen, or on the air for that matter, ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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