2010-2011 NHL season

Interesting choice of words considering Kessel is the subject.

 

Oops. Forgot about his medical history. Sorry.

 

Forsberg signs with the Avs and Duchene gets to play with one of his boyhood heroes (Sakic's the other one)

http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/scott_cullen/?id=352852

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2011/02/07/souray_scouts_rangers/

Hard too believe that he is not the highest paid dman in the AHL.

 

He's everwhere.

Pierre McGuire who we get on both TSN & NBC broadcasts has now joined Versus

"Inside the Glass" premieres tonight.

 

So my Blackhawks lose another close game, this time 3-1 in Calgary. Brent fucking Seabrook gets an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for arguing with the ref with less than two minutes left in the game and the Hawks down by one. I'm just not sure this is a playoff team right now.

 

I was there tonight. Was surprised by how poor Keith played. Haven't been able to watch a lot of them this year, when did they split Keith and Seabrook?

 

Post-merger Versus just jettisoned a bunch of hockey folk, including PxP guy Joe Beninati (who's still with CSN-DC for the Capitals) and ice-side reporter Bob Harwood.

Engblom is Inside the Glass for tonight's game.

 

They've been tinkering on and off with that all year. Keith has been really bad (by his standards) all year, and it's a big reason they'll have to fight for a playoff spot. I think a lot of their top guys are just hitting the wall after a deep playoff run + Olympics last year.

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/cbcs-sports-operations-dwindle-toward-extinction/article1896588/

 

This is too bad, their international and amateur sport coverage would be a huge loss to the Canadian scene, as well it would be a huge loss to the hockey scene to lose a heritage program like HNIC.

 

There's only one reason it would be a tragedy (well, not exactly, but you know what I mean) if CBC lost HNIC. You don't have to have cable to watch it and for a lot of people who live in the hinterlands or can't afford cable, they'd be shit out of luck.

I'm on record here as a big supporter of the Mother Corp for a lot of reasons but their production of HNIC is not any better than TSN's, a thought that would have been incomprehensible a few years ago.

Don Cherry has become a national embarrassment and his sidekick Ron MacLean thinks that the between period segments are about him. PJ Stock doesn't belong anywhere near a mike and Milbury is a joke.

CBC still has the best PBP guy in Hughson and I'll take Glen Healy and Kelly Hrudey over anybody on TSN and our guy Elliotte's pregame segment "Inside Hockey" is as good as it gets. And we have to put up with McGuire on TSN

Personally I think CBC has to rethink the entire programme, the way John Shannon did when he took over as Executive Producer.

My only worry would be that Sportsnet would win the bid for HNIC. That would be a national disaster. Those clowns are horrible