Yeah Cole and Neale were the best. Cole is the best hockey voice of all time.
- Zezel

Foster Hewitt, but most of you (frank)ers don't remember him.

new blog everyone

They're dropping like flies, so it never hurts.
This is exactly why Holl/Dermott were never going to be traded....we didnt have enough depth D.
- Fakepartofme

Still think one gets traded.

Think they like Rubins and this was more D depth for the Marlies since Rubins will be in the NHL for the next month and they may have to take an extra D man from the Marlies on a road trip.

Nothing to do with NHL d depth.

We adopted cats several years back - two brothers from the same litter we were told. Well, they were definitely close. How they could make those claims still seems odd to me since they found them on the streets. It's like finding a scarf on the street and writing a backstory for it - like some awful J. Peterman catalog thing, but I digress.

One of the two cats had FIV when we got him. I mean we'd had this cat for a week before we could tell something was off. The medicine he was on was not good for his bowels nor our floors or anything on them. The disease ate away his teeth, and he died in about 4 months. It cost us $3000, I think, to keep a cat alive for 4 months that we didn't even really get a chance to get attached to. He was beautiful and gentle and sweet, but . . . .

Moral of the story: It's a terrible disease, and I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
- Monkeypunk

We have two cats in addition to the dog. One, we got two weeks before the dog and he rules the place. We has another who also had FIS. We didn’t know right away, they were concerned that he wasn’t gaining weight. We fed that guy over and over and weighed him 6 times a day. It became obvious when his motor skills started to go. You’re right, it’s an awful disease.

Newest guy is a year and a half and healthy. He just hides whenever anyone comes to visit.

Bowen and Jim Ralph are amazing - I'd take that duo over a Bowen / O'dog pairing to be honest.

Bowen is fairly homerish actually - not in how he calls the game (say like a Jack Edwards in Boston) in that respect he's very fair but when the Leafs score or do something over the top he's next level with the "Holy Mackinaw" etc.

As a Leafs fan I love it, but as a fan of any other team it would be hated big time and places like the CBC have no interest in that.

For whatever reason TSN's and Sportsnet seem to be focused on trying to not tick off non-leaf fans with the broadcast crew for Leaf games - which to me makes zero sense.

CBC does the same but to a much much larger degree in my opinion while ensuring they maintain their image of being very in tune with what society wants right now (or as some call it "woke"). Hence the selections that seem to be made with respect to who no longer has a job on HNIC and who now does.

I would love to hear anyone who loves hockey and knows the game explain to me how the broadcast is better today than it was say a couple years ago (excluding the Don Cherry / coaches corner element).

Half the time now I can't even stand to watch the intermission except to see replays.

Quasi related note - the CBC missed an opportunity with not continuing Coach's Corner with a new host in my opinon. There always seems to be a coach or GM out of a job who would/could provide a pretty entertaining segment. Trots, Boudreau, Burkie all come to mind in recent times. When Trots and Burkie were on some broadcasts they were pure entertainment but imagine if they had their own segment?

Pure Gold Jerry, pure gold!

I mean Boudreau dropped an F bomb at the end of his very first presser as the new coach of the Canucks! lol Yes it was as he was getting up and clearly somewhat accidental but still it's hilarious. I mean he has proven he can filter himself if he really focuses.....lol

https://twitter.com/cjzer.../1097240231990956032?s=20
- Cush29

Fair breakdown, thanks.

And

We adopted cats several years back - two brothers from the same litter we were told. Well, they were definitely close. How they could make those claims still seems odd to me since they found them on the streets. It's like finding a scarf on the street and writing a backstory for it - like some awful J. Peterman catalog thing, but I digress.

One of the two cats had FIV when we got him. I mean we'd had this cat for a week before we could tell something was off. The medicine he was on was not good for his bowels nor our floors or anything on them. The disease ate away his teeth, and he died in about 4 months. It cost us $3000, I think, to keep a cat alive for 4 months that we didn't even really get a chance to get attached to. He was beautiful and gentle and sweet, but . . . .

Moral of the story: It's a terrible disease, and I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
- Monkeypunk

That's heartbreaking man. Poor kitty.

We got lucky because our guy has been an asymptotic carrier for most of his life. This could change at any moment, but so far he has lived normally with it for 8 years.

Planning drafts three years out . . . I remember when Liljegren was 14 - he was going to be the next Lidstrom!

Edit: It wasn't Lidstrom - it was Karlsson he was being compared to.
- Monkeypunk

Terrible comparison. Liljegren can play defense.