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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I noticed that as well. Jarome makes a perfect shot and it's all about Crosby going to the net. There was also the Thornton goal where all he talked about Keith purposely shooting wide like it was genius when he really only did it because the shooting lane was taken away and it's a play Bouwmeester and many defensemen do every night. I'm not a McGuire hater but I'm starting to find his continued overemphasis of minor stuff annoying to the point where I wish I could just mute him out completely.
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Yeah, McGuire likes to pat himself on the back as he makes some generalized statement earlier in the game and then goes back to it over and over when it happens again.
He's going a bit overboard in this Olympics with it, in addition to, as you say, make a bigger deal of some things that happen in everyday NHL, as if its special to the games in the Olympics and the players in the Olympics.
As for the Crosby extra attention, that's not surprising. His love for that play is him trying to appear more analytical and thus more aware of just the goal scoring for the casual CTV audience. Problem is for that goal, there's no analysis...a good pass for sure, but that rocket shot was reason #1 for that goal, no matter if there was any Canadian player going to the net or not.