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Tweak155

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who's the red wings' color commentary guy? What an annoying f'n homer. He can't keep his "oohs" and "ahhs" and "come on's" to himself while the play by play is going on. Everytime the Wings fuct up.

His name is Mickey Redmond. He played for the Wings a few years until he received an injury that ended his career (I believe it was a back injury?).

I like him a lot but it is true he can't hide his emotions. I'm cool with it just because I vote for the Wings myself, though.

The main commentary keeps in line though. Ken Daniels I think is his name.
 

Jeffg010

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Which channel? The FSD guys are pretty good, it's the NBC guys I can't stand.

True that the versus guys suck bad. They have such a hard on for the original 6. If a team is playing one of them it will be all about how great they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lange
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Lange
Mike Lange the greatest announcer ever. The problem is root moved him to radio only. He used to do both TV and radio. A lot of people hate Paul Steigerwald but I don't think he so bad but what ever.
 

Train

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True that the versus guys suck bad. They have such a hard on for the original 6. If a team is playing one of them it will be all about how great they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lange
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Lange
Mike Lange the greatest announcer ever. The problem is root moved him to radio only. He used to do both TV and radio. A lot of people hate Paul Steigerwald but I don't think he so bad but what ever.

thankfully I haven't had to whatch much versus this year. it seems nearly every game is either local or on FSD nowadays, which is nice.
 

Tweak155

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True that the versus guys suck bad. They have such a hard on for the original 6. If a team is playing one of them it will be all about how great they are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lange
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Lange
Mike Lange the greatest announcer ever. The problem is root moved him to radio only. He used to do both TV and radio. A lot of people hate Paul Steigerwald but I don't think he so bad but what ever.

Yeah I can't stand the non-FSD commentaries. Not so much because of their style, but generally because their voice makes me feel suicidal.
 

Jeffg010

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The Pens dominated Winnipeg 8 to 4. Crosby still has no goals since being back but he is make others better with 4 assists. Malken has 5 points and Neal had a hat trick. I love my Pens.
 

GoodRevrnd

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Oh man the Kings are killing it. 5 game win streak now. Thursday against STL will be interesting for sure!
 

Via

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Don't look now, but the Blackhawks seem to be putting it together.....

Who would have thought that a under-the-radar trade for a mid-level defensman would have straightened so much out.
 

iRONic

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The Pens dominated Winnipeg 8 to 4. Crosby still has no goals since being back but he is make others better with 4 assists. Malken has 5 points and Neal had a hat trick. I love my Pens.
Not enough to spell his name correctly though...
 

iRONic

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Oh man the Kings are killing it. 5 game win streak now. Thursday against STL will be interesting for sure!
They're on fire for sure and the Sharks look uninterested.

Bruins are on an unusual late-season roadie to Cali. I've been watching as many Kings, Ducks, and Sharks games as possible this past week.
 

spacejamz

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Doan suspended for 3 games...

I was at the game last night...pretty cheap shot he took at Benn's head. The Coyotes were definitely in goon mode against him last night.

It has been a month or two since I have been to a Stars game but what a difference....the arena was barely half full two months ago and last night it was pretty packed, even during the shootout...the next two weeks are gonna be interesting for us...
 

FallenHero

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Don't look now, but the Blackhawks seem to be putting it together.....

Who would have thought that a under-the-radar trade for a mid-level defensman would have straightened so much out.

He moves the puck well. All of chicago's D before he was traded for played the same style of hockey. There was no variation and changing the lines did nothing.

Plus I think it was alot of mental problems with the team. When the United Center starts booing on a consistent basis, you know something is wrong.
 

rh71

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His name is Mickey Redmond. He played for the Wings a few years until he received an injury that ended his career (I believe it was a back injury?).

I like him a lot but it is true he can't hide his emotions. I'm cool with it just because I vote for the Wings myself, though.

The main commentary keeps in line though. Ken Daniels I think is his name.

Anyone else liked Gary Thorne when he did ESPN hockey?

I don't know why people think Doc Emrick is good... every play is "jostled" and "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh... and he ______". Thorne sounded authentically enthused when he did play by play. Another good one is Jim Hughson with Toronto... love that voice. And for my homer vote... Joe Beninati... "Ovechkin FIRRRRESSS... he scoressssssss. A dart, from the great 8."
 
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xSauronx

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Anyone else liked Gary Thorne when he did ESPN hockey?

I don't know why people think Doc Emrick is good... every play is "jostled" and "ohhhhh and he ______". Thorne sounded authentically enthused when he did play by play. Another good one is Jim Hughson with Toronto... love that voice. And for my homer vote... Joe Beninati... "Ovechkin FIRRRRESSS... he scoressssssss. A dart, from the great 8."

yeah, i dont care for emrick. i like forslund, who is the play by play guy for the hurricanes but does some of the nbc sports games as well.

i *hate* the hurricanes color guy, hate him. hope he gets hit by a truck. but john forslund is usually good.
 

Via

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He moves the puck well. All of chicago's D before he was traded for played the same style of hockey. There was no variation and changing the lines did nothing.

Plus I think it was alot of mental problems with the team. When the United Center starts booing on a consistent basis, you know something is wrong.

I don't know if you've been able to see many Hawks games lately, but he makes a HUGE difference back there. I was pissed at the trade deadline that they didn't do more, but it turned out to be a big deal. The Hawks have missed Brian Campbell pretty badly this year, and the move also allowed them to put Keith and Seabrook back together again to play against the other teams top offensive line on a regular basis.

before he was aquired: 3-14
since then: 10-1-1

That's not just a coincidence.

oh, and -

Please God let the Blackhawks and Canucks meet in the playoffs
Please God let the Blackhawks and Canucks meet in the playoffs
Please God let the Blackhawks and Canucks meet in the playoffs
Please God let the Blackhawks and Canucks meet in the playoffs
Please God let the Blackhawks and Canucks meet in the playoffs




edit - I just re-read your post Fallen hero, and I think I misunderstood what you were trying to say. Sorry.

I thought you were saying that adding Oduya had no effect on Chicago's D, and that their problems were mental, not personel related.
 
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Squisher

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Well we finally saw some glimmer of good play out of the Redwings. Even though they lost they were actually in this game until the end. You know I'm heartened by the play of the replacements, but the thing is they play timid and all this losing has just about everyone playing timid and the Wings look best when they're playing just the opposite. I think we're going to miss Helm, but the two we're really missing are Ericsson and of course Lidstrom. I've finally gone from thinking we're going to be swept out of the first round to thinking we might make some noise.
 

Train

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Well we finally saw some glimmer of good play out of the Redwings. Even though they lost they were actually in this game until the end. You know I'm heartened by the play of the replacements, but the thing is they play timid and all this losing has just about everyone playing timid and the Wings look best when they're playing just the opposite. I think we're going to miss Helm, but the two we're really missing are Ericsson and of course Lidstrom. I've finally gone from thinking we're going to be swept out of the first round to thinking we might make some noise.

It was basicaly Datsyuk, Zetterburg, and a minor league team vs. the NY Rangers. Props for taking it to overtime. Aside from the noob mistakes they actually played pretty damn well.

If Helm, Lidstrom, and Howard are all healthy come playoff time, Wings may knock off a higher seed team in the first round. Not really worried about Ericsson, he was overrated, playing next to Lidstrom made him look good, personally I'd rather have Eaves back but that's not gonna happen this season.
 

iRONic

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Anyone else liked Gary Thorne when he did ESPN hockey?

I don't know why people think Doc Emrick is good... every play is "jostled" and "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh... and he ______". Thorne sounded authentically enthused when he did play by play. Another good one is Jim Hughson with Toronto... love that voice. And for my homer vote... Joe Beninati... "Ovechkin FIRRRRESSS... he scoressssssss. A dart, from the great 8."
Thorne was excellent. Beninati made my ears bleed.

Doc Emerick used to be Aces. Now his adjectives are beyond brutal. "Knifes it out" "Sashays across the blue line" "Triggerpull from the point" Christ...
 

iRONic

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Well we finally saw some glimmer of good play out of the Redwings. Even though they lost they were actually in this game until the end.
If Nyquist didn't muff that late 2 on 1 the Wings could have pulled that one out.
 
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