Let's Do Something About Sportsnet

[killer_carlson]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Healy is a troll. The whole point of the stuff he says his to enrage the Fanbases across the country. Exploiting the passions of fans for their teams by idiots like that results in lots of page views and ranting on ad supported Rogers message boards. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

No chance they dump Healy.

agreed, unless they hear it from the advertisers.

If you really want to make a difference, pick on of the advertisers and let them know that you're boycotting their product because when you see it, it reminds you of Healy's lack of professionalism. Then go and tweet them the receipts of you spending at a competitor.

If the advertisers start commenting about it, the producers will listen. Until then, nothing imo.

[saillias]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Healy is a troll. The whole point of the stuff he says his to enrage the Fanbases across the country. Exploiting the passions of fans for their teams by idiots like that results in lots of page views and ranting on ad supported Rogers message boards. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

No chance they dump Healy.

I agree with this, I think he's supposed to be that hated.

Damien Cox though someone needs to tell that guy to tune down the outfit and makeup and do his homework on the team he's talking about.

[Badgers Nose]

Originally Posted by Envitro

No Healy and more Friedman and I'll be happy

Yeah no kidding. When did hockey turn into a touchy-feely tearjerker show? I've never understood the appeal that Friedman has. Some people call him one of the most knowledgeable people in the NHL but to me he just seems like a hockey card collector with big thick hockey news enyclopedia's at his disposal.

Hockey central at noon is terrible too. It's a 40 minute show maybe five minutes of it is discussion of hockey the rest of the time it's what Doug MacLean barbecued the night before or where Kypreos gets his clothes from. It's an embarrassment. I'll listen to it on game days to see if they mention anything about the flames. Usually it's something along the lines of yes flames play tonight they suck.

[Enoch Root]

Were there no sound issues at home? Watched the game on Center Ice and both the 1st and 2nd intermissions had sound issues. Healy and Cox were completely muted both times.

(Sadly) that massively increased the quality of the broadcast!

[Harry Lime]

The only thing that has consistently bugged me for years about Sportsnet is that they don't have a separate audio feed for crowd noise. The games always sounded more exciting on TSN because we could hear the crowd reaction.

That and its owned by Rogers, which.... ahh, not worth heading that direction.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by StAlbertFlame

Rhetto Berro

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Table 5

At the very least, it's great having Paul Romanuk back.

I'm a fan but I've found him to be a little rusty since coming back - it is like he isn't used to the speed of the NHL game. He completely missed the Colborne breakaway tonight.
Minor quibble though - I assume he will round back into "NHL shape" and when he does he will return to being one of the best.

I enjoy Mike Johnson - good insight.

[DionTheDman]

Originally Posted by StAlbertFlame

Rhetto Berro

Rhett Warrener, Reto Berra, and Ray Ferraro's three way love child?

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

I'm a fan but I've found him to be a little rusty since coming back - it is like he isn't used to the speed of the NHL game. He completely missed the Colborne breakaway tonight.
Minor quibble though - I assume he will round back into "NHL shape" and when he does he will return to being one of the best.

I enjoy Mike Johnson - good insight.

Good call, that's it exactly.

I am a Romanuk fan as well, but he hasn't been quite spot on. And that's it, he isn't used to the pace.

When you're covering the Spengler Cup, you can go off on a tangent and wax poetic for lengthy stretches. In the NHL, you miss too much.

He'll be fine thought, he just needs 20 games to adjust.

[saillias]

I am so happy to have Hrudey/Ball and Romanuk/Johnson or whoever, over Kerr/Simmer. SOOOO happy, it almost seems too good to be true, like the TML are just waiting around the corner to steal our talent and leave us with some Oiler cast-offs.

[Burner]

I remember how much TSN loved the Flames ..... - how do I make this text green

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

So far so good IMO in regards to the new coverage. I don't like everyone that's a part of their team, but the same cauldron have been said for CBC, TSN and SN in the past as well. Not going to ever hit a state where you love all their analysts or commentators, but as a whole, it's been a good start.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

I'm a fan but I've found him to be a little rusty since coming back - it is like he isn't used to the speed of the NHL game. He completely missed the Colborne breakaway tonight.
Minor quibble though - I assume he will round back into "NHL shape" and when he does he will return to being one of the best.

I enjoy Mike Johnson - good insight.

This is what I think to. After being in Europe all theses years and calling the games there.
In a few weeks He will get it back.

Once again I don't blame him missing the Colbourne breakaway. We were all dumbfounded by Boumas blocks.

[saXon]

To be fair, TSN (damn the new format sucks) made the mistake of naming Johnny's goal as his first NHL goal as well in the vid below.

http://www.tsn.ca/video/nhl-flames-4-jets-1-1.111062

The caption under the vid, however, states it's his first of the season.

[zukes]

I agree with most in this thread that it is a major improvement. Love the multiple games on Saturday's. Strombo doing well.

However, the Gaudreau thing was terrible, they were over the top in correcting it too.

It's a shame what they've done with MacLean, should be split duty with Strombo, I was really sad to see MacLean follow the screw up and say it was Gaudreau's first goal, he is always prepared...but they have him doing the feel good marshmellowy stuff across the country so he gets a pass

I must've been drunk (definitely am now) but Damien Cox was actually good during this game? I may have just puked in my mouth a little after typing that..Healy was somewhat tolerable..okay, I'm drunk and need to go to bed....

[Gaudfather]

Originally Posted by Joborule

Sportsnet is doing fine.

I normally have a lot of time for Scott Oake but I thought he was real dweeb tonight in his post game interview with Gio. He was saying the Flames were playing rope-a-dope hockey on this road trip - particularly against Chicago and Winnipeg and implying they had no business winning those games.

Then he try's to be funny talking about the "unforgettable" moment in this game and Gio is looking at him trying to figure out what planet he is from. he was referring to Johnny's goal but the way he was asking the questions was just awkward.

Gio of course was a true pro - answered the questions ( once he figured out what Oake was talking about) and kept his cool demeanour.

But c'mon Scott - you have to pick up your game. The interview is on the Sportnet site.

[calgarywinning]

The broadcast is terrible. The commentary and other business is just too much. They talked about the first period the whole game, whenever they could.

I can't stand when they are talking down the flames who are clearly putting forward a solid effort to the dismay of the broadcaster. It's like their cheat sheets and game liners have been pre-written and they are upset they can't use them.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by calgarywinning

The broadcast is terrible. The commentary and other business is just too much. They talked about the first period the whole game, whenever they could.

I can't stand when they are talking down the flames who are clearly putting forward a solid effort to the dismay of the broadcaster. It's like their cheat sheets and game liners have been pre-written and they are upset they can't use them.

This seems like the same theme of the cbc when the Flames were making the playoffs a few years back...I have no idea why people are so up in arms about this now. It's nothing new people.

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

This seems like the same theme of the cbc when the Flames were making the playoffs a few years back...I have no idea why people are so up in arms about this now. It's nothing new people.

It is the same theme since the last few years of the playoffs to now, but let's not kid ourselves, it's got nothing to do with SN, CBC and TSN were the same last year and before, and would be this year.

1. Flames last few years of making the playoffs deserved the critique as they were drastically underachieving.
2. Flames post playoffs didn't recognize they needed to rebuild and deserved the critique.
3. Rebuild Flames have take. An approach most talking heads haven't agreed with (for some reason they want the burn it down Oilers method, cause that's been so good) and haven't picked the flames to fair well. As the Flames keep beating expectations, the talking heads look to minimize the progress because they don't want to look foolish about their previous critique. Frustrating no doubt, but not an SN issue per say.

[browna]

Originally Posted by calgarywinning

The broadcast is terrible. The commentary and other business is just too much. They talked about the first period the whole game, whenever they could.

I can't stand when they are talking down the flames who are clearly putting forward a solid effort to the dismay of the broadcaster. It's like their cheat sheets and game liners have been pre-written and they are upset they can't use them.

Not a fan of the national broadcasts so far for the Flames. Romanuk was in Europe for how long? Randorf was 3rd string at TSN. I think the format, especially for the Sunday night, is less about play by play and more about discussion (or so it seemed).

Outside of Friedman, not a lot to offer during the intermissions, but I've never been a big fan of in-intermission analysis. There's some lazy analysis talking in generalities, or too specific, picking on a player or situation in that period and projecting that as the be-all and end all of that player or the flow of the game.

Thankfully, the Flames have maybe the strongest team with Roger, Rick and Kelly on the call...considering that's where 75% of the broadcasts/play by play we're going to hear are going to come from, we're pretty well setup as Flames fans. Just do something else after the Roger interview after each period for about 10 minutes while Kypreos and McLean argue about something Leaf-related.