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Originally Posted by Buff
Ed Whalen was occasionally unintentionally funny. Sometimes he would confuse players names/numbers. I remember he would call out Otto's name when it was Nieuwendyk or vice versa. Sometimes a player would dump it in for a change and he would shout "He shoots it just wide of the net!" Little things like that. I found them amusing. He wasn't perfect and I didn't go about complaining on social media because it didn't affect my life (and there was no social media).
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I have old Beta tapes of Flames games from the 80’s.
One of my favourite Ed Whelan-isms was during a line brawl against Winnipeg.
Paraphrasing. “Loob’s in a fight, he’s really pounding him. Oh, it’s Tim Hunter.”