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Originally Posted by transplant99
To have insight to the game...you must be inside the game. That much is pretty obvious.
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That is a pretty shallow understanding of the word.
INSIGHT
Noun
- The capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.
- An understanding of this kind: "new insights into the behavior of whales".
Synonyms
understanding - perspicacity - intuition
Nothing in there implies that an individual has to have personal experience (ie. playing NHL hockey) in order to have gained an understanding of the game. A former player/coach would have a very specific insight from a player/coach point of view but that does not mean they are the only ones to have insight of the game.
I appreciate the rigid thinking that "this is how it has already been done so this is how it must continue to be done" but with the rebuild and everything else going on around the Flames, I am feeling a bit more open minded than that. If we can find a good radio personality that happens to know a lot about hockey and can make the broadcast more entertaining then I don't care if they have first hand experience as an NHL player.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
As for grooming an heir to Maher, that would never be a color analyst anyhow. I cant think of a single instance where a color guy has gone on and become a pbp guy...two entirely different sets of abilities and talents required for each. I could be wrong but i simply dont ever remember anyone doing that...maybe in the NFL or MLB...maybe?
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I've never paid much attention to the roles of PBP vs. Color analyst. I certainly never thought that if you did one you could never be the other. All I do know is that Peter Maher has some really big shoes to fill and I would rather ease in the new guy than have PM retire one summer and leave us all feeling dazed and confused listening to some strange new voice.