by mikey287 on Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:05 pm
Notes as I think of them or see them:
- Pittsburgh's guys are just plain tough to deal with...Errey is excitable and a touch over the top sometimes, but would be tolerable if he had even an average pbp guy...he doesn't come close unfortunately...brutal...
- Shouldn't have allowed Brickley and the Bruins to slide so far down on account of Jack Edwards. Brickley (a former Pen) is an upper echelon color guy in the league
- Cangialosi had huge shoes to fill when Doc left and didn't get even close..."opening face" and "wide of goal" are two brutal things that get repeated too often. Chico isn't as funny without him and Doc going back and forth with their schtick...
- Mike Haynes from Colorado is tough to listen to sometimes...most of the time...Peter McNab can't save him either...
- Kerr falls for the same thing that Cangialosi fell for except SC is way worse...the Flames needed Loubardias to keep them entertaining as that ship sinks ever so slowly...
- Howie Rose got slightly more tolerable...but Butch Goring remains one of the worst color guys in the game especially when you adjust for the fact that he played and coached, it's bad, maybe worse than Edzo with the same criteria...
- The Detroit announcers are almost as bad as Philadelphia's in terms of listen-ability...Mickey Redmond is the biggest homer in the league, Larry Murphy blows, Mickey Redmond makes me want to catapult him and Ken Daniels into the sun. If the Wings get a penalty called on them "the fix is in" if the Wings lose it's because last Thursday was cloudy - they got every excuse in the book...no wonder they have some of the worst fans - in terms of tolerability - in all of sports, dreadful people...
- lol @ Olczyk, he can kill any broadcast...
- Engblom was much better in the booth for the Jets than between the benches nationally, way better...
- Flyers announcers are dreadful homers, Clement gets worse every year, Coates makes Steigerwald look competent...
- Darren Pang sometimes gets in the way, especially locally, but he's too much fun (with a fair bit of knowledge) to pass up on, especially for the very meh Federko...like his playing career, very forgettable despite gawdy numbers, or in this case, air time...
- Sam Rosen has lost it, was once great, but now he's just a senile old man that doesn't know all of the players and has trouble keeping pace...which means Micheletti has to cut him off even more and make some useless point about how much he likes Brandon Dubinsky..."pard me, Sam" "excuse me, Sam" every 5 seconds...JD never stepped on Sam's toes like that and he had 10x the knowledge...
- Randy Hahn and Drew Remenda, I can't get enough of them...if Remenda was just slightly more versatile in his overall knowledge of the game (he has a "theme" for every game it seems and he tries to force it throughout the telecast, it doesn't add much...) this pair would be at or near the top...terrific to listen to...Hahn is a quick thinker and has good chemsitry with the highly flammable Remenda...
- Surprised to see Washington's, Ottawa's, and Nashville's duos ahead of San Jose...I wouldn't agree with that. Beninati gets a bad rap, but I'm ok with him...a little over the top, but he calls a fine game...
- Jim Fox sounds like he's constantly going to commercial every time he speaks, drives me nuts...but it is a high-quality pair...
- Good call with Dallas so high, Reaugh provides a wealth of information, vocabulary and giggles...Strangis calls a really strong game and works well with Razor...a real treat to listen to these guys and Razor isn't all flash, he's knowledgeable as well...