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Originally Posted by goodyear
No kidding! Hockey in general has got pretty weak panels...If you look at other sports, (NFL on both CBS and FOX, NBA on TNT) they usually have big-time credible guys, hall of famers who've accomplished enough on the playing field that they don't have to sound like hacks in their retirement.
CBC's got two backup goalies and a Dan O'Toole look a like on their flagship broadcast.
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Really? I agree Healy and Weeks don't cut it, but the NFL pannels are horrible IMO. I get what you are saying, the NFL pannels are filled with more star power, but man are the bulk of them morons. Just because someone was a hall of fame player because they could run fast and knew how to catch or throw, doesn't mean they have the intellecutual capability to analyse the game effectively from a pannel or broadcaster point of view. I find the NFL pannels do nothing but spout typical locker room catch phrases and provide little inisght or educated thought. Obviously that's a generalization, there are good NFL pannel memebers, but on a whole I find the quality of analysis no better or even worse than what we see in the NHL.