Getty Images Perfects "Crotch Cam" Technology

(C) Bruce Bennett, Getty Images, Yahoo!

Every day it seems we see new innovations in the way the media brings you sports. In arena football, the quarterbacks and coaches are mic'ed up. It's given new life to being the person that bleeps out profanities during sports broadcasts. In baseball, ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball has that wacky pitch tracker that shows you the exact line of flight on every pitch.

Naturally, it was only a matter of time until someone decided to ignore the epic failure of the glow puck and take another shot at hockey technology. In what can be described as a unique (erotic?) attempt at bringing us closer to the game we love, photographer Bruce Bennett and Getty Images have brought us the 'crotch cam'. Or at least that's what it looks like from the above picture. The caption doesn't identify what lucky guinea pig got to try this out, but I can assure you it was someone in the Islanders farm system that you've never heard of.

Will this new technology succeed? Only time will tell. But just image the potential in-game uses. We could see one of Alex Ovechkin's beautiful dekes from crotch level. The speed of Sidney Crosby, now seen through his legs. Sean Avery and... Well... I don't think it would be a good idea to try this thing with Sean. We might see some things that we can't unsee. But nonetheless, the crotch cam is here and it's sure to make fans uncomfortable and give players some nasty chafing.

Words of Wisdom from The Golden Brett

Hear that? One damage to target creature!! OMGz!! MTG Lair

I, for one, thought that we may have heard the last of the interesting banter about Brett Hull when he left/was fired from NBC earlier in the summer and took a vaguely-titled upper management position with the Dallas Stars. If only I wasn't so pessimistic. Of course, Brett loves us and wants to give us something interesting to talk about -- before the season starts, no less.

Sunday's Dallas Morning News gives us a look into part of what Hull's new job entails; motivating 37-year old Mike Modano. It's just another side -- Hockey Life Coach -- we have yet to see from Hull, a jack of all trades.

Hull's biggest job as special advisor to the hockey operations department might be to keep Modano on task this season, to help the franchise leader in pretty much every department unleash a game tailored for today's NHL.

"I tell him to think about scoring goals," Hull said. "I told him with the rules changes [the crackdown on hooking and holding in 2005], he should be skating hard and going to the net. With his size and his speed, nobody should be able to stop him."

That's right Mike; score goals. The Stars are paying Hull... why?

This leads me to recollect other life changing advice from Brett Hull.

• Curve your stick. Everyone does it and it will get you into the HoF.
• Huh?
• You don't own me Clement!

Well, that last one was made up. Anyway, it's good to have Brett back. He really helps liven up a boring weekend in the hockey world.