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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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Shorthouse took over for Hughson doing Canucks SNET Pacific, and Rick Ball took Shorthouse's primary radio role on 1040. Though Shorthouse would do the radio calls for HNIC games when Hughson did the TV calls, but obviously the vast majority of Canucks games have been on SNET Pacific broadcasts for years now.
Regardless, you said Shorthouae called "all of the Canucks games on the radio for over 20 years" but that's not true after he moved to doing regional telecasts.
"Starting in October 2008, the station began splitting Canucks play-by-play duties between John Shorthouse and new announcer's Joey Kenward and Rick Ball.
Kenward calls the Canucks broadcasts when the team is on the road, Ball calls the show for the home games. Both new hosts fill in only when Shorthouse does the television play-by-play for Rogers Sportsnet. After one season of this arrangement, from October 2009 until present, Ball handles all play-by-play duties while Shorthouse is calling games on Sportsnet. Kenward only calls games when Shorthouse is on Sportsnet and Ball is away calling BC Lions CFL football games."