I think it's one of the things they started after the lock out ( I could be wrong on this). I guess it's an attempt to make the game more fan friendly or something. I'm pretty sure they have been doing intermission interviews with players for many years, long before the lockout. CSNC just had Keith on. Thanks. I'm not really crazy about them - they're kind of like ESPN doing interviews with baseball managers during regular season games. I don't so much mind the intermission interviews, but NBC will have Pierre McGuire interviewing players on the bench during the period. That's where I draw the line.