I think it's cause the 960 crew are pretty close to the team and establish these friendly "relations" with the guys in the room, particularly through all the charity and community events at which the station is present and after a while it gets in the way of their intellectual honest like you say. They're a bit easy on guys in a league that is supposed to be the best in the world.
Steinberg will be pretty blunt on OT and stuff. But Kerr is a little too respectful of the guys and Loubo is the most guilty for playing up the hometown heroes even when they're weak links on the team.
We could use some more honest personalities. But that doesn't mean a guy like Francis. He's on the opposite end of the spectrum. Eternally negative, makes things up, rips on guys unnecessarily etc. It'd be good to have a guy in there somewhere between the two.
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