Nathan Eidse is TSN’s on-ice cameraman in Halifax who usually stays out of the highlight because of his totally white outfit. However regardless of attempting to mix in, Eidse has turn out to be a crowd favourite.
As reported by The Toronto Star, if Eidse does his job proper, he’s not imagined to be seen. However as a result of he’s so adept at his job, he’s garnered some stage of fame.
In a current look on the world junior males’s hockey championship in Halifax’s Scotiabank Centre, Eidse — who’s a former goalie himself — weaves out and in of the fray to offer TSN with distinctive angles whereas staying out of the way in which of the opponents, a talent that has caught the attention of onlookers who reward him for his experience — together with three followers who dressed up as Eidse to cheer him on.
The legend of Nathan Eidse, the camouflaged digital camera operator, continues to develop🤣#WorldJuniors pic.twitter.com/9UCmxrSGyR
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) January 1, 2023
“Hats off to this man. He all the time sneaks by everyone,” Austrian ahead Vinzenz Rohrer tells CBC.
“Fairly camouflaged,” Swedish netminder Carl Lindbom provides. “The top product is wonderful.”
Eidse used to solely seem on the ica on the finish of video games, however TSN began to push the envelope extra in 2018, to see what footage may very well be gathered if he appeared on the ice extra usually throughout play. To maintain him hidden, TSN added to his all-white outfit by protecting the white digital camera cowl and white coverings for his skates.
The thought for the digital camera cowl really got here from a legendary participant.
“I went out to Winners and purchased white pants and a white shirt an hour earlier than our first recreation,” Eidse says. “Choice was restricted, so it didn’t look fairly. However Gretzky was the one which mentioned we have to cowl the digital camera in white.”
Pay attention I do know this Bedard man is first rate…
However can we admire the digital camera work from the dude on the ice, circling the pink hat, whereas getting Bedard in body? That shot is unreal. pic.twitter.com/1byTrewwNg
— Nasher (@TheNasher61) December 29, 2022
“We’re all the time trying to do issues otherwise,” Paul Graham, TSN’s vice-president answerable for live-event manufacturing, tells The Toronto Star. “I noticed it over in Switzerland seven or eight years in the past, however it wasn’t superb when it comes to the man who was skating and the way they integrated it. It was cool, however I’m considering, ‘OK, we are able to do one thing higher.’”
TSN was given longer and longer leashes at completely different occasions, and as Eidse confirmed his talent at avoiding interfering with the sport, organizers continued to present him and TSN extra entry.
“It’s not misplaced on me that I’ve the perfect seat in the home,” Eidse tells CBC. “It’s fairly neat to be in the course of the whole lot.”
Picture credit: Screenshots through TSN
