Rumor: Kevin Bieksa and others could be fired at Sportsnet?

[Rubi]

I can certainly believe a few of the others will be let go at Sportsnet. But Bieksa? Sounds like Friedman is safe..

Rumor: Bieksa, Hrudey and Ron MacLean are out at Sportsnet

Ron I get 100%. Hrudey I'll miss, but how can they let Bieksa go!?!?

www.hockeyfeed.com

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[Kranix]

I saw Howard Berger's name and I was like, he's still there???

 

[Double Dion]

Way overdue for MacLean. Bieksa I liked (as a broadcaster), I like Hrudey although he doesn't offer much outside of goaltending. I liked that Mikkleson on the Flames broadcasts too. She does a good job, Botterill is decent too.

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

Yeah, the only one I won't miss is MacLean. As much as I hated him as a player, I think Bieksa was great on HNIC and I really valued his input from the point of view as a player.

 

[Anglesmith]

I don't really see any motivation for them to get rid of Bieksa, which prevents me from fully following along with this rumour.

 

[CamPopplestone]

I'd miss Hrudey. As someone once said, he's a dork, but he's our dork. He isn't annoying to listen to, some of the people's voices get grating but Hrudey is pretty chill. And while he's been a big Flames homer, I always like that he doesn't do it in a way that insults the other team, and will point good stuff they do as well. I think we could do a lot worse than him

 

[Rubi]

Unlike a few people who posted here I won't miss Hrudey. All he did was talk about the goalies and he was loath to point out when one was shitting the bed.
Even though he was a goalie too, I much preferred when Greg Millen would sub for Hrudey. Honestly I bet there are a lot of people out there that can provide better color commentary than Hrudey.

 

[Lunatik]

I don't really see any motivation for them to get rid of Bieksa, which prevents me from fully following along with this rumour.

Probably contracts and money, that is all the motivation they need

Unlike a few people who posted here I won't miss Hrudey. All he did was talk about the goalies and he was loath to point out when one was shitting the bed.
Even though he was a goalie too, I much preferred when Greg Millen would sub for Hrudey. Honestly I bet there are a lot of people out there that can provide better color commentary than Hrudey.

This is about the HNIC panel, not commentary for games

 

[HighLifeManIsHigh]

Unlike a few people who posted here I won't miss Hrudey. All he did was talk about the goalies and he was loath to point out when one was shitting the bed.
Even though he was a goalie too, I much preferred when Greg Millen would sub for Hrudey. Honestly I bet there are a lot of people out there that can provide better color commentary than Hrudey.

Hrudey is also an Oilers’ homer. He can beat it

 

[Nanuuk]

Unlike a few people who posted here I won't miss Hrudey. All he did was talk about the goalies and he was loath to point out when one was shitting the bed.
Even though he was a goalie too, I much preferred when Greg Millen would sub for Hrudey. Honestly I bet there are a lot of people out there that can provide better color commentary than Hrudey.

Yup. Millen is way better, right?

I can certainly believe a few of the others will be let go at Sportsnet. But Bieksa? Sounds like Friedman is safe..

Rumor: Bieksa, Hrudey and Ron MacLean are out at Sportsnet

Ron I get 100%. Hrudey I'll miss, but how can they let Bieksa go!?!?

www.hockeyfeed.com

I wouldn't lose any sleep on losing any of them other than Friedman and Bieska. Just losing MacLean alone is 100% better and I'm guessing he is the most expensive as well.

 

[Kranix]

So this clickbait came from an article posted by Howard Berger on his personal website, where he said, "an alarming bit of speculation from a media source familiar to everyone in the Canadian sports television industry...We may not recognize the Hockey Night In Canada panel next season." He then goes at length into how Rogers business has suffered the last few years. Hockeyfeed then turned it into "MULTIPLE FIRINGS EXPECTED AT SPORTSNET."
Berger tweeted the link to his story on July 8, and no one in the hockey media has touched it since, as Berger is an unaffiliated guy with 9000 followers.

 

[super6646]

Hrudey is also an Oilers’ homer. He can beat it

Tell oiler fans this. He really isn’t.

Also LOL at that username

 

[Bounces R Way]

They can replace them all with symbol clapping monkeys for all I care as long as they get rid of that stupid roundtable that features shots of the back of the panelists heads.

 

[Tofveve]

Unlike a few people who posted here I won't miss Hrudey. All he did was talk about the goalies and he was loath to point out when one was shitting the bed.
Even though he was a goalie too, I much preferred when Greg Millen would sub for Hrudey. Honestly I bet there are a lot of people out there that can provide better color commentary than Hrudey.

I much prefer Millen, who ironically I used to think sucked. Greg tells it like it is a lot better than Hrudey who wants to put a bright shiny spin on everything and then when he doesn't he sounds like he's piling on lol. Plus there's a few other things I'm not that much of a fan of Kelly. That said I don't hate him, just not too keen on him either.

Ron definitely comes across as smug, passive-aggressive-pendatic/preachy/teachy. I joked regularly about how his segments seemed to be about making his audience cry. Then his music referencing and movie referencing and a bunch of other abstract we don't care Ronisms won't be missed by me.

I didn't mind Bieksa. Maybe he doesn't represent their panel ideas.

Botteril seems fine to me other than US channels scooping up her talent? Maybe she also doesn't capture their vision of things, which is weird to me.

***and yes maybe this article is simply click bait lol