well ok then, think our announce team need to check out the presser prior to making comments...unless they saw him walking around before the game (possibly he did get an earlier flight) then I agree...they have been hard to listen to at times..would rather we get Starman and whoever else for the US games, do we really need TSN to do all our lifting at these tournaments?? lol..
I'm not a fan of announcers, just because I hate how their craft is rooted in artificially fabricating suspense. I get why they do it, but it's not enjoyable to listen to when you're not a casual fan. It's not just Miller, it's nearly all play-by-play guys, but dear lord if I hear Miller bloviate one more time as if a shot "just missed" that wasn't even close to being dangerous I may just lose it. I remember one example today where a German player fired the puck wide and into the corner Miller acted as if it was centimeters from going in when it was obviously a pedestrian wide shot that Schneider let go, which happens dozens of times in a game. Then they showed a replay from the corner and the puck was closer to not even going through the crease than it was to being a dangerous chance.
My biggest issue when they get very obvious things wrong and don't correct them or seem wholly unprepared all together. Some of the examples, of which there are many, are the Werenski callout, the delay of game penalty confusion the other day, or the "missed" call today during the delayed US penalty near the end of the game when the US player moved Suter's stick out of the slot toward the point, literally pushing it away from Suter, and Ferraro wouldn't shut up about how the Germans were rightfully upset and the US was lucky it wasn't another penalty for the forward trying to push the stick to Suter.
They've been amateur hour during our games, which is tough to listen to because they're not amateur announcers. I like Starman even less, so I'm glad he's not announcing the games, but Miller and Ferraro are putting even less effort into their announcing than most Team USA outfits have into their games in previous tournaments.