I like Bourque overall, if nothing else because god forbid anyone would say anything critical of the team. He's someone you might actually learn something from. That's why I always hated Steigy aside from his buffoonery. People that don't know that much about the game get a skewed perspective from people like him. It might be good for the team because they sell more t-shirts, but it's not good for the game really. Errey isn't exempt from this either even though he knows his stuff. He just played way too much off of Steigy. He's much better now.
My only thing with Bourque is he gets a little too gravely serious about things at times. Football announcers are more prone to this I find, and it's hard to explain, but they talk overdramatically as if the game is this ethereal, spiritual thing that is just so important to life as we know it.
It's a game dude. Now it is a great game at that, and there are all kinds of examples of toughness, overcoming adversity, courage, etc. within the context of a bunch of dudes trying to put a rubber disk in a net. Within that context, the stuff that happens can be downright amazing, but it doesn't go beyond that.
