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Terrible move by the Sens. His arrogance is off the charts.

He drops more names (known and obscure like random US college coaches) to try and sound important, knowledgeable and connected to the past and present, than Ron MacLean does on broadcasts.

His condescending tone, passed off analysis, is an insult most people who watch and understand hockey. His time at TSN would be to make very general and cliched statements on a game (ie the Flames have to get a good forecheck) and then every time the Flames would forecheck, he'd smugly pat himself on the back and remind everyone of what he said. Heaven's forbid the Flames get a goal off a forecheck, but even goals that weren't from the forecheck, he'd do verbal gymnastics to say that the threat of the Flames forecheck caused the goal, to patronizingly sound like some savant.

There's a reason he's tried and tried and failed and failed to get an executive gig this last decade.Cliches such as dropping the term "puck IQ" 50 times isn't going to make a player better. If he was to be a pro scout or something, sure, but not player development, some of his interviews are the more awkward interviews in sports, where he's making sure he's sounding thoughtful and insightful first and foremost.