Stu Nahan was a hockey guy, he would appreciate the current Kings team. Thanks for mentioning him, we shouldn't let hockey people fade from memory even if they have left us.
Fred Roggin is a good guy too, I think he was put into a position of disaster and didn't know what to do. He seems to be looking down, probably someone giving him directions that didn't work out. Why NBC LA would send him there without a proper camera is embarrassing.
Jim Hill is a football guy but I think he is an athlete that respects hockey as a game and the Kings as well. They just don't do a good job with their coverage.
Pretty sure that Fred Roggin is or was a Kings season ticket holder.
He still is - I see him at games on the weekends he has off from NBC, and I'm sure he was horrified at how badly that came off. Like others have said, not really his fault - his production crew should be shot. Everything from a sub-par camera to not having highlights ready to go.
Roggin has been the sports guy at NBC4 for decades, and unlike Jim Hill, tends to get the games right, knows which logo is correct and roots for the team. Better than average in that regard.
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He still is - I see him at games on the weekends he has off from NBC, and I'm sure he was horrified at how badly that came off. Like others have said, not really his fault - his production crew should be shot. Everything from a sub-par camera to not having highlights ready to go.
Roggin has been the sports guy at NBC4 for decades, and unlike Jim Hill, tends to get the games right, knows which logo is correct and roots for the team. Better than average in that regard.
Stu Nahan was a hockey guy, he would appreciate the current Kings team. Thanks for mentioning him, we shouldn't let hockey people fade from memory even if they have left us.
Fred Roggin is a good guy too, I think he was put into a position of disaster and didn't know what to do. He seems to be looking down, probably someone giving him directions that didn't work out. Why NBC LA would send him there without a proper camera is embarrassing.
Jim Hill is a football guy but I think he is an athlete that respects hockey as a game and the Kings as well. They just don't do a good job with their coverage.
Stu was the absolute best. Loved watching the players rough him up when they came out of the tunnel.
I have to give some props to Patrick O'Neal as well. For a guy who came in obviously knowing ****-all about hockey, he works his ass off (I've seen him working a Kings game in the afternoon, Lakers that night, Dodgers the next night... it's non-stop for that guy.) and you can tell he's been trying his best to learn on the job. He's gotten better as the seasons have gone by.
The players seem to like him. He's been part of all their locker room celebrations and the enthusiasm he has for the team is genuine.
Certainly worlds better than Van Earl Wright. Remember that ******? Oy.
I have to give some props to Patrick O'Neal as well. For a guy who came in obviously knowing ****-all about hockey, he works his ass off (I've seen him working a Kings game in the afternoon, Lakers that night, Dodgers the next night... it's non-stop for that guy.) and you can tell he's been trying his best to learn on the job. He's gotten better as the seasons have gone by.
The players seem to like him. He's been part of all their locker room celebrations and the enthusiasm he has for the team is genuine.
Certainly worlds better than Van Earl Wright. Remember that ******? Oy.
I've had a strong dislike for O'Neal for a few years but he started winning me over a week or two ago during a Dodger post-game show he was asked about attending a golf tournament he never misses in June and he said something along the lines of hopefully I'll be busy attending or working a Stanley Cup Final/Parade that would mean a lot more.
That was pretty cool
oh and thanks for reminding me about Van Earl, now I have "Those that wear the Winged Wheel" stuck in my head.
here is another video I just found. It appears to be the Devils intro video before they came on the ice. But you don't see the team(s) appear. Maybe it is something else.
the stuff projected onto the ice look very nice. the full ice Stanley Cup looks fantastic. It is not clear what the scoreboard video is showing and it probably looked better then this clip shows. If this is the wrong spot for the video, please move it or let me know.
It is. The scoreboard (after the creepy red smoke) video is showing clips from each of the 3 Devils Stanley Cup wins of the last 20 years, in order from 1995 (the video on YT ends with 1995, but they go on to do 2000 and 2003 too).
Damn it, it got cut off right where he was about to answer the last question. I wanted to know "how much his marriage to Janet Jones influenced his decision to move to Los Angeles."
