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Originally Posted by kn
Yeah, I fired off an email to Kirch... I'm hoping the station thinks outside the box. I'm tired of hearing former NHL-players who have trouble coming up with varied sentence structure and clearly don't know the players and organization like Peterson.
I don't understand the requirement the colour person needs to have played. If that's really a requirement, then Cassie Campbell was perfect when she was on the Fan960. She knew more about the team and players than the guys she was working with, and she played at a level higher than every guy she was working with. Thinking back to her commentary during her radio stint here, makes me think how under utilized she is on HNIC. She should be in the broadcast booth as she's better than the people there now.
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I am probably missing the green text here but in case not, the reason for wanting an ex-player/ex-coach is most people want some insight/insider information and not someone with the same level of knowledge of the average fan.
As for Campbell my guess is to why she is not used more is because she is awful. She is a poor/awkward speaker and offers very little insight into what is going on. It is borderline saying that she played at a higher level than others on the fan in terms of quality of hockey and womens hockey is so far removed from the NHL game may as well have a former NFLer on the FAN talking about the game since he played a game at a "high level."
Again if I missed the green text here then ignore if it was serious I could not disagree with the post more. Less Campbell on any platform is good for hockey fans and a big no thanks to Torie Peterson who has shown no ability to do that type of job at all.