Bob Cole and Harry Neale define my memories of playoff hockey. Great chemistry.
Chris Cuthbert and Gord Miller are both high on the list for me as well. It's a shame that, for the most part, we are robbed of their talents due to the Rogers deal.
And I know this won't be popular here, but Jim Hughson. His Canuck leanings are not-so-subtle, but he really is great at what he does.
Colour Commentators: Kelly Hrudey has been awesome these past few seasons. The guy can't help but come off as genuine in both personality and his insights. Garry Galley does an excellent job. Great analysis and understands what his role to the commentary team is. Ray Ferraro generates some heat on this board, but I don't really understand why. Calls the game like it is, and you can tell he really knows the game inside and out. Always appreciate when he is between the benches calling a game.
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Chris Cuthbert
- Absolutely criminal he is stuck on TSN right now. The right mixture of knowledge and getting stoked on big plays. Little to no bias on any teams
To be clear he's not stuck on TSN. He chose to stay with TSN.
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Chris Cuthbert and Jim Hughson from the current crop of guys. Bob Cole in his earlier days but by the end I couldn't stand his blatant Leafs homerism and he was getting senile. Also a fan of Peter Loubardias. Ed Whalen was classic, I have never been a Peter Mahar fan. And some of the American guys are pretty good, I'll often watch their broadcasts over a Canadian one depending on who is calling it.
Rob Black should be banned from the airwaves forever.
I like Gord Miller and Chris Cuthbert. Miller because he always knows what's going on, especially regarding the rule book, and his dropping of "shutout" kills me. Cuthbert because his voice and cadence are terrific and he rarely makes mistakes.
Rick Ball is getting there - great voice and cadence - but he still confuses players often and gets confused by stoppages too frequently. Once he gets a better understanding of what's going on he should see more and more national time.
Kelly Hrudey also gets confused by stoppages and I find him to be a pretty big homer. Not to the extent the Oilers and Ducks guys are, but you can definitely tell which side he's rooting for.
I've started to like Louie Debrusk quite a bit. He's at the point he calls the game down the middle and actually provides pretty good analysis for a goon.
John Shorthouse calls a great also, but it gets ruined by John Garrett. I'd like to see Shorthouse call a game with one of the better colour guys by his side.
Elsewhere, I've always thought the Kings team as a whole does a pretty good broadcast.
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Danny Gallivan and Dick Irvin. Danny invented and/or popularized most of the words used in play by play and I think Dick invented the color commentary position.
"When a university professor wrote to Gallivan protesting that there was no such word as "cannonading", Gallivan wrote back: "There is now." The ultimate Gallivanism was another word he coined: the "spinarama," which described a player evading a check or deking a defender with a sudden 180- or 360-degree turn. Its chief practitioner was Montreal Canadien Serge Savard so that the move was also known as "The Savardian Spinarama". The Canadian Oxford Dictionary now includes an entry for "spinarama"."
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All time favorites
- Peter Maher (I miss him dearly, I view Derek Wills as below average so this has been a huge step back overall)
- Ed Whalen
- Steve Armitage
Current favorites
- Chris Cuthbert
- Jim Hughson (when not doing Nuck games)
- Bob Cole (no one senses the emotion of a game better than him)
- Rick Ball (VERY good PBP guy. Him and Hrudey are an excellent tandem)
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So many good ones...past and present.
Jim Robson is one very few will remember or even know about, but he was maybe the best radio pbp guy I have ever heard. He did do some CBC TV games at one time, but mostly was Canucks pbp guy on CKNW for so very long.
As someone mentioned, Gary Thorne is an absolute pro and one of my personal favorites. Doc Emrick is right there as well.
Cuthbert, Miller, and Hughson are the gold standard right now, though i personally dont care a lot for Hughson, but a lot of those things are just personal preference.
We sure have been lucky locally for the most part. Whalen, Maher, and Rick Ball (really getting good) are tremendous pbp guys in an industry that is short really good ones.
I like Gord Miller and Chris Cuthbert. Miller because he always knows what's going on, especially regarding the rule book, and his dropping of "shutout" kills me. Cuthbert because his voice and cadence are terrific and he rarely makes mistakes.
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"I see as much misery out of them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm." -Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran
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