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All Bob Cole

by Paul on 05/24/13 at 01:12 PM ET
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from Sean Fitz-Gerald of the National Post,

Why subject yourself to the grind of the travel and the work after all these years, when you could be enjoying retirement, fishing or golfing somewhere?

BC: “I love doing this. This is great. I don’t ever want to stop this. Now, somebody’s going to stop me someday by saying: ‘No, we don’t want you anymore.’ And when that day comes, I guess I don’t have any choice. I’m gone. But as far as wanting to leave, if I don’t enjoy doing this, or if I have some kind of difficulty — please God that that doesn’t happen — and I can’t do it, OK. But as long as I can do it and the fans can enjoy the game, I’m certainly going to enjoy the game.”

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Video- Coach’s Corner From Wednesday Night

by Paul on 05/23/13 at 12:31 AM ET
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Ron MacLean pointed out Crosby cheating in the faceoff circle, Don Cherry discussed the first period of the Pens/Sens game, defensemen getting their stick in the way of a shot and the 4th-liners in the playoffs.

Cherry then went on to talk about Milan Lucic and Joe Thornton and MacLean talked a little about the refs in the playoffs.

Cherry then talked about the dismissal of Vigneault in Vancouver and feels Gillis threw some of the coaching staff under the bus.

 

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You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Tim Thompson But You Know His Work

by Paul on 05/22/13 at 04:35 PM ET
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from Sean Fitz-Gerald of the National Post,

During the two months of the NHL playoffs, his days are spent in a windowless studio on the seventh floor of the CBC’s downtown Toronto headquarters. He was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt during one recent editing session. Pages torn from a steno pad covered the desk, an incomprehensible shorthand scrawled on each scrap — a cue, a note, or an inspiration for a future montage.

“I have this weird kind of head,” Thompson said. “I walk around with cinematic films going on in my mind. I’ll see a bird flying over a streetcar as a kid walks across the street, and it will be like, ‘Oh, that song!’ ”

And the songs for his montages vary. Sometimes, they are not even songs. Thompson has worked with opera and hard rock, folk music and spoken word. Canadian actor and filmmaker Jay Baruchel opened one broadcast earlier this season by reading from Two Solitudes, the 1945 novel by Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan. (Baruchel had two pages to read, and he read them fiercely: “I wish we had actually filmed him doing it,” Thompson said with a smile.)

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Who Said It?

by Paul on 05/20/13 at 02:07 PM ET
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The older I get, the better I was. I was fortunate to be on an Oyster River High School soccer team that was at the tail end of a dynasty (we went 96 straight regular season games without a loss) and we made it to the state championship game in two of my last three years in school. I played soccer at UNH before I had a Joe Theismann-type broken leg... came back for one more season, but was a shadow of what I was... and it got me into broadcasting purely by happenstance. It all worked out OK, and the lessons learned from soccer help me with hockey concepts every game.

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Hotstove Talk

by Paul on 05/20/13 at 09:56 AM ET
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A summary of the Hotstove talk from last night... P.J. Stock takes a look at Craig Anderson, Elliotte Friedman talked coaching jobs including Patrick Roy in Colorado, Glenn Healy talked about the NHL participating in the Olympics with things looingk very positive and the last topic was the $100,000 fine Doug Wilson was hit with but why wasn't George McPhee?

 

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Video- Keep Them Coming HNIC

by Paul on 05/16/13 at 09:58 AM ET
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Hockey Night in Canada does such a great job with their montages before each playoff game,

Here is the montage before game 1 of the Detroit/Chicago series.

 

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I’ve Never Played The Game (Except Pick-Up Games)

by Paul on 05/15/13 at 05:10 AM ET
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Yesterday I posted a blog titled Ranking The Starting Goalies where I listed the 8 starting goalies left in the playoffs beginning with, in my opinion, the best goalie.

KK members then followed suit by leaving their rankings in the comment section and all was good.

This morning I woke up to this email...

ha ha Paul .... were ya drinkin when you ranked the goalies ?? That was actually funny .... Guess that's why you post other peoples thoughts and don't actually write much ..... FYI ... Lundquist is a fraud. Quick is the man to have .... I have been playing the game at various levels for years, and know what is happening on the ice ....

Ah, the old I played the game ploy and what's with all the dots and the double question mark?

Criticizing an opinion is one thing as long as you back it up, but calling people out by using the 'I played the game card' as the reason tells me that person is wearing blinders and knows all.

If I considered myself as knowing everything about the game, I'd be running a site like nhlpredictions.com but I don't, so I leave it up to the experts to do so.

Now I know who this person is and would have preferred he left a comment in the post so all could see it and discuss if need be, but that was his decision, not mine.

In case you are wondering, this person did not strike a nerve with me but I wanted to bring some attention to it and who knows, maybe you will be reading his response in a blog at another site in the near future.

One more thing, it is Lundqvist, not Lundquist Mr. I play the game guy.

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Coach’s Corner Tonight

by Paul on 05/10/13 at 08:43 PM ET
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Topics discussed were Dion Phaneuf, Bobby Orr, Montreal/Ottawa and Chicago/Minnesota.

 

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Giving Credit To The NBC Sports Group For Their Hockey Coverage

by Paul on 05/10/13 at 09:57 AM ET
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from Micael Arace of the Columbus Dispatch,

“I’ve worked for them all, NBC, ABC, Fox, ESPN, CBC … and I loved them all,” said Blue Jackets president of hockey operations John Davidson, a Hall of Fame broadcaster. “The one thing they have in common is people who love hockey and want to convey that passion. Sam Flood and the NBC guys, they’ve taken full ownership. It has never been better.”

Flood, executive producer for NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network, is the son of a hockey coach and a former college hockey player. His mission has been to take the raw appeal of a so-called niche sport and translate it to a wider audience. To that end, he has been part of such innovations as the Winter Classic and Wednesday Night Rivalry, and he is credited for sticking Pierre McGuire behind the glass, for good or ill.

Since the Comcast-NBC merger, Flood said, “All the hockey content has come under one roof and we have the ability to create a common template and send the same message: There is a passion and enjoyment people get from this game, and it is unlike any other. We want hockey players to become as big a stars in the U.S. as they are in Canada. We can’t equal the NFL in this country, but we can expand it

The NHL is not the most enlightened enterprise, not when it locks out once every decade, eschews meaningful revenue sharing, shelters foundering franchises and imports officials from ancient Byzantium. Yet, credit must be given where it is due, and the NHL is shaping up well on the NBC Sports networks. One might even say that it is better off on NBC than in some dark corner of Bristol. Boo yah.

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Afternoon Line

by Paul on 05/09/13 at 12:04 PM ET
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"I'm an anti-Hab? Am I really? I suppose I take that as a compliment. They're crazy. I can tell you that right now. That's nuts. I've been through the Edmonton years, and I loved it, and the Islanders years, and that was great. And then Boston with Bobby (Orr) and the rest of them. The Canadiens, The Toronto Maple Leafs. Detroit with Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio. They came down and visited Newfoundland and we went fishing together. Are you kidding? There's no way I can favour one team. I do the games. And I get excited. I love it.

"Those people are way out in left field. No way. Can't be done. I couldn't do it."

-Bob Cole of Hockey Night in Canada when asked if he or the CBC might have an anti-Habs bias.  More on this topic from Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette.

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