FLYLine4LIFE said:More realistic then yours was.
Thunderstruck said:One less leverage point for the PA.
no13matssundin said:The PA has leverage???
ColoradoHockeyFan said:If it's part of an overall effort to replicate the HNIC quality of broadcast, bring it on. What ESPN2 (and some regional broadcast outlets) do with hockey is pathetic. It's painful to try and watch a game with no quality audio, announcers who lack sufficient emotion, and cameras that appear to be positioned about a quarter-mile from the ice.
Street Hawk said:One thing that bothers me about ESPN is the fact they hire nameless former NHLers as their "Hockey Analysts". Outside of the regular hockey fan, what casual fan is going to know who the heck Ray Ferarro, Darren Pang, and Brian Engbloom are?
Compare this to ESPN's crew that does football, and at least they have Steve Young and Michael Irving.
Having hockey analysts that the casual fan can recognize adds to the overall package of the viewing experience. During the game or in the intermissions, when they tell the audience what the players are going through and what they need to do to win, it would mean more if it came from elite level players who won. What ESPN needs to do is dump the likes of Pang, Ferarro, Engbloom and bring in the star calibre of a Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey, Mike Richter. These are guys the casual fan can recognize and they've won championships.
Who would you listen to about what it takes to win in the playoffs from a goalie's point of view? Pang or Richter?
Unfortunately, it appears that most of the elite level hockey players do not or will not be going into television after they finish their careers. Some guys, good guys like Yzerman, Francis, Bourque are probably too quiet and mild manner to bring that punch to tv.
McDonald19 said:Personality and ability to speak well is more important than how good of a player they were.
Yzerman, Francis and Bourque as you said are too quiet and would be boring. Panger may have been a bad goalie but at least he has a TV personality.
Bourque was on NHL2Night during the early 2002 playoffs and was rather colorless. It's not a unique phenomena to hockey, Joe Montana's one year stint on NFL Today was absolutely painful. I also think Mike Irvin is terrible, just slaps jocks backs, and has an awful grunty voice.McDonald19 said:Personality and ability to speak well is more important than how good of a player they were.
Yzerman, Francis and Bourque as you said are too quiet and would be boring. Panger may have been a bad goalie but at least he has a TV personality.
PecaFan said:Roenick and Hull are two obvious choices for broadcasting in a couple of years.