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Originally Posted by pylon
Yeah, but when he started he was trashed beyond recovery, by a lot of people, myself included. And I regret that. It may be a maturity with age thing, I don't know. But I do not think it is fair to go after someones livelihood over superficial BS. If he was horrible at his job, it would be justifiable. But nobody can say Kerr doesn't know what he is doing. They just don't like the way he sounds to them.
If any PBP guy should have been called out for sucking at his job, it was Ed Whalen. Do not get me wrong, I LOVED Ed, and he was the best Flames PBP guy of all time. But his actual hockey knowledge was horrible, he was a brutal homer, and he had trouble keeping up with the play at times. But he had a ton of charisma, and was a loveable guy. So he got a free pass.
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Ed was pretty good at PBP in his prime but he's a case of a guy that stayed working long past his expiry. Channel 7 or what ever it was at the time really wanted him to retire years before he did but out of respect let him make the final call.