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This is a gut punch. The only pleasant part of enduring bad Flames games this past years was the very good fortune of having a true professional call the game. Top 2 in Canada. He was not taken for granted by the fans, and any who did forgot Rob Kerr and may well realize it after a couple periods of game 1 in October.

For all the fantastic career Cuthbert had, he's changed. He has Leaf bias on him now, is sounding his age and his commentary is now limited to hunting to find some dramatic sound byte.

Bartlett who did the ECF is good and is Ball, but Ball and Millen as a team were the best commentators for watching a game that there is, and it's not close after having listend to the US guys in TNT and all the other Canadian regional guys.

My guess is we now get Singh so he can continue to learn on the job more than just one night a week.

Hope Ball excels in Chicago. His comeback calls for the Flames are great and of course his Dallas OT winner.