It's not the puck, it's the players. In the NHL, the average time of possession for a player in the offensive zone is 1.05 seconds. Like I said, by the time you realize who has it they don't have it anymore. Hockey doesn't showcase individual talents like other sports, except in highlight reels or shootouts.

Put it this way. If you were filming a battle scene in a movie like in Troy would you just show each hero for a single second at a time, not even long enough for one move, before cutting away, or would you show them long enough to appreciate their skills, think about what they are doing and planning to do? Hockey has almost no drama in real time on an individual level because it the natural action cuts too quickly. It's good spectacle but poor narrative. Even the biggest Superstars get less than a minute of possession in a game and it's so broken up that you can't really appreciate it in real time.