NHL gamecenter streaming issues

I bought a new ATV2 last week and updated to the latest sotware.  The main selling point for me was NHL Gamecenter live as I had grown tired of watching games on my laptop.  Gamecenter live however is unbearable to watch.  It stops to buffer every 3-5 minutes and often will buffer for 5+ minutes just to go another  2 minutes.  I can use Gamecenter on my laptop with no issues and it never needs to stop for buffering.
I thought it was my ATV2 setup but Itunes and Netflix movies stream with a breeze, never a hang up and a very short buffering time to get started.  I have a 20MB download internet connection and I've never had buffering issues when using NHL Gamecenter on my Laptop.  Another annoying thing it does is sometimes when watching a game that the NHL has put in their own "commercials" during time outs, it will often go back to the NHL game menu when the commercial break is over instead of going back to the game.
Anyone else having this issue with NHL Gamecenter?  Maybe its an NHL issue since everything else on my Apple TV streams perfectly. I've had to go back to watching games on my Laptop because of it. 

cheeseyblasters wrote:
I've been having the same issue on both ATV2 and PS3. Believe it or not I have found one limited workaround. If they game you are trying to watch has a canadian team, use the canadian feed. Watch WASH vs. TOR and the TOR feed is working fine while washington feed is unwatchable. Ditto for WPG CAR game. Let me know if this holds true for anyone else.
Haven't had this hold true for me.  I usually watch games after they are over--not live.  Some will stream this way, others will not--most often the team I really WANT to watch will not!  I was watching one game on the computer the other night and decided to try the ATV2 again after the first period and found it WAS finally available.  The weird thing was that the steam was slightly different than the stream I was watching o the computer.  The computer stream included all of the commercial breaks and period intermissions, the ATV2 stream did not--it just went immediately to the next action or next period.  Are they somehow formatting a special feed for ATV2?  Does this take time and is that why some of the games are not available for awhile after the live game is over?  I'm grasping at straws here to understand how I can best use this device which is so far quite frustrating and mysterious.....

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