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Originally Posted by AC

Are you saying Rick Ball wasn't calling Canucks radio games? Because:

Vancouver Canucks play by play voice moving to call Flames for Sportsnet
https://thecanuckway.com/2014/08/26/...mes-sportsnet/

I think the headline of that article is a little misleading. Rick Ball was never the regular PBP guy in Vancouver. You will notice that it correctly says that "longtime broadcaster Rick Ball will be moving from calling Canucks and BC Lions games for the radio station to a role calling Calgary Flames broadcasts for Rogers Sportsnet." It also goes on to quote The Province, saying that he "does play-by-play for the sports radio station’s B.C. Lions and Vancouver Canucks broadcasts.

What is missing is the fact that while Ball was the regular radio guy for the BC Lions, he only did fill-in for the Canucks broadcasts on the radio.

So, while I am not suggesting that Ball didn't call Canucks games, I am saying that he was never the regular guy. That was Shorthouse from the time that Hughson moved to TV in the late 90s, all the ay up until more recently when Brendan Batchelor took over the radio broadcasts.

Originally Posted by AC

Meanwhile, Shorthouse "was the radio voice of the Canucks from 1999–2000 until 2007-08, working alongside colour commentator Tom Larscheid."

Then he took over for Hughson on Canucks SNET regional games.

I think that is wrong. Shorthouse was definitely still doing the radio broadcasts along with the telecasts all the way through to when the TEAM 1040 lost the broadcast rights to SN650 when Brendan Batchelor took over. He and Larscheid were still on the radio together until 2011 when Larscheid retired and was replaced by Dave Tomlinson.