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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I know this won't be popular but I would rather have Debrusk over Hrudey. I just think Debrusk is a better, more objective colour guy as Kelly spends too much time defending Flames goaltenders and talking about stuff not relevant to the game. I like Hrudey but think he's better in the studio than the PBP booth.
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Not so sure. When Snet committed to the Oilers by bringing Shannon back and kicking Remenda to the intermission, and putting Debrusk back full time, the advancements he made the prior couple years as the colour guy for the late games, and away from the Oilers, took huge steps back.
Hrudey seems to want to play it too close down the middle, concerned about some random 3rd liner or backup from the other team, when he’s on a regional Flames broadcast. But Louie turned into a whiner and complainer a lot this year, hanging with that Oilers crowd and having the Oilers brass stop in every night to check in and listening to those media guys explain atrocities that the refs and league are committing nightly in not allowing McDavid to be a star, so even when he did those national non Edmonton games, he was salty a fair bit.
But, color guy is less important than Ball. We won’t get Hughson or Simpson until the Leafs are out, and even if they are, maybe not until R3. I fear that we will get Randorf, as he’s higher up the ladder than Ball in the Snet corporate structure. His grating style and Vancouver heritage never gives me the feeling that he’s ever happy having to do Flames games.