Preds easily have one of the top three announce crews in the league. Very entertaining.
I hate when the commentator will scream "SCORRRRRRREEEEEE!" when their team gets a goal, but the other team gets one and they will just do something like "and he scores." Kinda bugs me. I notice the guy from SJ does that a lot and a couple others that I can't name off the top of my head.
Some commentators are just annoying on voice alone. Some that stick out are Detroit and Washington.
About the Sharks guys, yes, Drew is ridiculously homer, but Randy usually tries not to give his opinion. When he does, it is usually in the Sharks favor though.
As much as I hate the Kings, their broadcast guys are pretty good.
Taco Bell is mediocre at best. Taco Del Mar is a bit better. Though, I do agree, the USA has us beat in the fast food department.
As long as we have A&W and Tim Horton's, nothing else is even necessary.
I woulnd say that, i was actually shocked to see how average the fast food in USA actually is.
Taco Bell is terrible, KFC is un-eatable, pitza/hamburgers are large and with a lot of fillings but pretty bland.
Even waited 2 hours to eat Chicagos most famous pitza that has been in numerous tv-shows and praised to high heavens, only to find out its average at best.
But on bright side there was billion places where you get amazing stakes, pasta and seafood for cheap.
Many of the American announcers are BORING as hell. Some are great, but watching the Sabres game the other night almost put me to sleep. His voice, lack of excitement and overall monotone demeanor was horrible. There seem to be a lot of them like this. Seems like a lot of them are announcers for other sports and do hockey on the side, since they have no clue about the sport. Also lots of homer announcers, I am just guessing it is this way for all teams, I just don't notice it being a Toronto homer myself.
That was a**hat Kevin Sylvester and the day he has nothing to do with Sabres hockey will rank up there with winning a cup...he was thankfully only filling in for RJ who was out sick.
RJ did return Sunday and should be good going forward.
Here in Wisconsin we don't have Chick-Fil-A (say what you want about them, their food is delicious!), and Culver's makes up for the lack of In-N-Out. There's a Hardee's in town I sometimes go to, mainly because it's 24/7
In Buffalo we have a Tim Hortons every 2 miles
I guess it's why people think we're more Canadian than anything else
I like listening to out of towner. I have Center Ice in the middle east so I get to choose.
The nice thing is it gives a different perspective on the Canucks. Generally its positive which is nice to hear instead of the sky is falling attitude that happen with the vancouver announcers.
Im sure its the same for all home vs away announcers.
The Philly and Chicago broadcasting teams don't get as much love as they should, they are both fantastic. They have a perfect mix of energy and professionalism.
I notice we don't get many games announced from either team(I assume because they don't have the rights), what happens if they play eachother and it's not a nationally televised game anywhere?
I was watching the Bruins/Canes game tonight on the NHL network. I must say i really like the guys in Carolina's booth. The play-by-play guy got a cool voice and the color guy was pretty knowledgeable and unbiased.
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I noticed that tonight as well. When I saw it was the home feed I said "crap, I don't wanna listen to these guys" but they called it right down the middle all night.
John Forslund (play by play, also on a lot of Versus broadcasts) is great, Tripp Tracy can get a little out there at times. He's usually good for tripping over his own words and doing a faceplant about twice a game.
About the Sharks guys, yes, Drew is ridiculously homer, but Randy usually tries not to give his opinion. When he does, it is usually in the Sharks favor though.
As much as I hate the Kings, their broadcast guys are pretty good.
Ill agree on the sharks i think randy had a few games without drew during the playoffs one year and wasnt bad.
Ehhhh bob miller is good, i could maybe like jim fox if he didnt do the voice thing at the end of every thought
Preds easily have one of the top three announce crews in the league. Very entertaining.
I hate when the commentator will scream "SCORRRRRRREEEEEE!" when their team gets a goal, but the other team gets one and they will just do something like "and he scores." Kinda bugs me. I notice the guy from SJ does that a lot and a couple others that I can't name off the top of my head.
Some commentators are just annoying on voice alone. Some that stick out are Detroit and Washington.
The Altitude TV guy in Colorado is most guilty of the score shout you're talking about.
Radio guys are much worse at this, I've found, from my XM Home Ice. Listened to a bit of the Leafs-Pens on the way home from work the other day, and Grabovski scored. The commentator didn't mention it for a few seconds, said something like "pass in front, and, well, that's what happens when you leave a player wide open like that, etc etc etc, ends up in the back of the net". The score changed on the HUD display of my radio before the guy confirmed a goal went in.
