[Rumour] Rogers to renew Don Cherry's contract. UPDATE: Previous reports false

[Johnhitbox]

Originally Posted by nik-

nah, Ron Maclean is awful. The product will be so much better when that self important blowhard is tossed out.

What did Ron ever do? I’m not defending him, I just didn’t know people disliked him.


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[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by activeStick

What the hell?! You always have interesting takes... Often complete opposite from what I'm thinking...

As for Cherry, I find him entertaining and I think ultimately, that's his purpose. He doesn't add anything in terms of insight, but that's what I think the other panel is for. Cherry is excellent for laughs with his incoherent rambling and instances like the "bunch of jerks" are reasons enough for me to enjoy his segments.

Strachan played the heel role perfectly. His feud with Burke made great TV 20 years ago.

Burke, Strachan, MacLean, and Friege/Kipper would make for amazing intermission segments.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Johnhitbox

What did Ron ever do? I’m not defending him, I just didn’t know people disliked him.

“Gimmie a glass of wine or a beer, and I think in two years they win the Cup. That may be a little eager, but I don’t think more than four.”

— Ron MacLean, 2015

IIRC he also started the whole "it's not a question of if, but how many".

[Kipper is King]

Don Cherry has been senile for years now. Ron Maclean has essentially had to babysit him on air, watching the clock and trying desperately to keep his segment on track.

Cherry should ride off into the sunset with some dignity still intact.

[hwy19man]

Originally Posted by getbak

It will be interesting to see if anything changes. You have to assume Rogers will do whatever it takes to keep the Oilers and Canucks since their name is on the buildings. Will TSN try to get a regional deal here?

It is not necessarily a strong assumption. The reason for that, Sportsnet had a regional deal with the Habs even though the name of the Habs arena was the name of their arch rival, the Bell Centre.

[hwy19man]

Originally Posted by Johnhitbox

What did Ron ever do? I’m not defending him, I just didn’t know people disliked him.

Ron took over Dave Hodge's job back in 1987 when Hodge flipped his pen and people to this day think MacLean is inferior to Hodge.

[FlamesAddiction]

I can’t recall the last time I actually watched or listened to any intermission segments. I usually just listen to music and read the synopsis on here. Thanks for that by the way.

[cam_wmh]

Any chance we get the original HNIC theme song back with a new TV agreement?

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Any chance we get the original HNIC theme song back with a new TV agreement?

Unlikely, unless Bell wins the NHL rights back. They hold the rights to the theme song in perpetuity.

[TheScorpion]

also by the way Don has debunked this himself on his twitter account

https://twitter.com/user/status/1148053745730801664

https://twitter.com/user/status/1148053883924680712

pretty bad look for Simmons

[getbak]

Every day is a bad look for Simmons.

I wish I could say he's the worst sports journalist in Canada, but he just has so much competition. He probably wins for longevity of awfulness, though. He has been horrible from the very beginning.

[Sandman]

I can see why people don't like Cherry, but not MacLean....

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Strachan played the heel role perfectly. His feud with Burke made great TV 20 years ago.

Burke, Strachan, MacLean, and Friege/Kipper would make for amazing intermission segments.

I will say that as much as I didn't like Strachan he did provide for a contrarian view which was entertaining at times as he always had an axe to grind with someone and his expected negative slant was at least a different opinion. Annoying for sure but if you are looking at the intermissions as a means of entertainment maybe nice to have a guy like that at the table just to break up monotony of a bunch of nice guys discussing news and rumors.

Originally Posted by getbak

Every day is a bad look for Simmons.

I wish I could say he's the worst sports journalist in Canada, but he just has so much competition. He probably wins for longevity of awfulness, though. He has been horrible from the very beginning.

We are hard on Francis at times but if he had egg on his face even half as much as Simmons I'm sure he would have been run out of town a long time ago. I don't understand how this guy still has a job in sports media but being out west it's probably something we don't understand seeing this is clearly a Toronto thing and someone in that market must like him for reasons unknown to me.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Sandman

I can see why people don't like Cherry, but not MacLean....

Big Oilers fan. Big ego. Bad takes and opinions (In 2015 said the Nordiques would be back in the NHL in three years and the Oilers would win the Stanley Cup in no more than four years.). That said Ron is a great talent that worked his way from doing Flames intermissions on 2&7 to where he is now but things went south for him when he felt he had become a big deal and started dominating the HNIC telecasts with his takes and opinions. He's a little better now and maybe it's me but I get a little tired of seeing the same people decades over decades on any show and I would be fine with him being replaced when Cherry eventually retires.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Kipper is King

Cherry should ride off into the sunset with some dignity still intact.

I'm afraid that horse has already left the barn.

[the_only_turek_fan]

https://youtu.be/BDAAU-w8FI0

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Flames on TSN could be a win-lose scenario. I can put up with SN’s poor visual and production quality because of Ball-Hrudey. Who might TSN have for a Calgary broadcast crew?

Anyone outside of the Flames region should be praying for Sportsnet to re-up the deal. Right now, the Flames have 38-40 national games but if they went to TSN, they'd be limited to only 20-22.

[the_only_turek_fan]

How do you embed YouTube videos on CP?

[Burner]

Originally Posted by getbak

Every day is a bad look for Simmons.

I wish I could say he's the worst sports journalist in Canada, but he just has so much competition. He probably wins for longevity of awfulness, though. He has been horrible from the very beginning.

but i thought the worst was francis - maybe its just splitting hairs

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

We are hard on Francis at times but if he had egg on his face even half as much as Simmons I'm sure he would have been run out of town a long time ago. I don't understand how this guy still has a job in sports media but being out west it's probably something we don't understand seeing this is clearly a Toronto thing and someone in that market must like him for reasons unknown to me.

Don't forget, he got his start in Calgary with the Sun. He was pretty awful back then, too. For someone who covered a team that won as much as the Flames 80-89, he was very negative on the club.