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Originally Posted by N-E-B
Cassie was a good analyst and a knowledgeable hockey mind. She just didn’t posses the skills to do colour commentary. It’s a skill set that not many people have and simply knowing the game and having played it usually isn’t enough.
Hopefully the ESPN gig works out for her. I didn’t care for her colour commentary but I hold no I’ll will towards her as a person and I hope it all goes well for her.
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We've been over this lots before, but IMO there are very few 'really good' colour commentators out there. Ferraro (quick, confident, and assertive)...Boucher/Olczyk (though not sure I love the 3-man setup), and...I guess Craig Simpson.
Beyond that it's all different versions of mediocre-mediocre+. Hrudey is great with Ball, Debrusk is fine, Garrett or Pierre McGuire are obnoxious but occasionally entertaining...Cassie is right in the mix [of mediocrity]