OT: PA announcer John Ashbridge has passed away

[Captain Bowie]

Gonna be a weird, strange season without the Sedins on the ice and without John's voice beaconing down from the rafters.

 

[polarbearcub]

Gonna be a weird, strange season without the Sedins on the ice and without John's voice beaconing down from the rafters.

Ashbridge hasn't been doing pa for the Canucks in years .

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

Joining Tom Peacock in the great Canucks PA announcers booth in the sky.

RIP John.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Ashbridge hasn't been doing pa for the Canucks in years .

Well now I feel like an idiot. I thought it had still been Ashbridge all these years. Turns out since 2011 John slowly stepped back from the mic at Rogers Arena, as a guy name Al Murdoch stepped in. It's embarrassing that I hadn't noticed this.

 

[rypper]

Well now I feel like an idiot. I thought it had still been Ashbridge all these years. Turns out since 2011 John slowly stepped back from the mic at Rogers Arena, as a guy name Al Murdoch stepped in. It's embarrassing that I hadn't noticed this.

To be fair they sound really similar. Don't beat yourself up too badly.

 

[Doyle Hargraves]

Well now I feel like an idiot. I thought it had still been Ashbridge all these years. Turns out since 2011 John slowly stepped back from the mic at Rogers Arena, as a guy name Al Murdoch stepped in. It's embarrassing that I hadn't noticed this.

They fired AV too

 

[Jyrki21]

Well now I feel like an idiot. I thought it had still been Ashbridge all these years. Turns out since 2011 John slowly stepped back from the mic at Rogers Arena, as a guy name Al Murdoch stepped in. It's embarrassing that I hadn't noticed this.

To be fair they sound really similar. Don't beat yourself up too badly.

I genuinely didn't realize this either, and someone corrected me on Twitter as well when I made a similar comment (to be fair, I have lived out-of-market since the mid-'90s and have been to exactly one home game since 2001). Their voices are similar.

 

[cabinessence]

They fired AV too

It still could be a weird season.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

 

[cc]

So many great memories involving his voice. What a sad loss...