This is actually a good opportunity to adopt the model (becoming popular around the NHL) where you have a main "A Team" play-by-play and colour guy who does every single game. Then you have a "B Team" that will do radio when the "A Team" is on TV. If it's a national broadcast, then the A Team shifts to radio.
The fact that they haven't posted the TV positions makes me wonder if they will do just that and grab all four positions from the postings.
The other wild card, though, is how Rogers is going to handle national games. They haven't even told their talent how that's going to work, but they might just keep the Flames play-by-play crew intact for national games too (at least some of them).
It makes sense if you think about it. Say they're on a road trip that goes Islanders/Rangers/Devils and the Rangers game is a national one but the other two are regional. Does it really make sense to fly a national crew in to do the one game while also paying for the hotels, meals, etc. of the regional crew?
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