Statistically he's the best goaltender in Blackhawks history. ?
Yeah, felt bad for Edzo a couple of games ago. Vosters thought he was being funny and joking about fashion, telling Edzo, Nick knows fashion over Eddie. Eddie responds thats pretty harsh. Wished Eddie would have just dropped him right there, Talk about disrespect, hey for all the howie meeker style comments by Edzo, I still love the fact he somehow tries to make it lighthearted with some old school stories and how he battled through his health problems.
Honestly, I sort of wish they all would just stop trying with the cutesy passive-aggressive humor bull shit already. When Vosters does it, it's awkward, but when Eddie and especially Chodey do it, it just as awkward if not worse. Chodey comes off as the biggest dick on the planet and I actually liked when Vosters nailed him about his shitty clothing line that went out of business in response to Chodey ripping him about not looking like an athletic type.
I was confused why Foley retired on the game he did too, but he explained that he chose that game against San Jose because Doug Wilson was supposed to be in house. They had to plan it in advance, before Wilson stepped down as GM in April. But yeah, I wish we had more games with him and less with Vosters and dipshit. I literally had to put the game on mute when it was Vosters, Chelios, and Cohen the other night -- Chelios seriously spoke more than Vosters, it was ludicrous. Vosters is bad, but hell, he is the play-by-play; the color person should never talk more than the play-by-play. Ever. And can they stop with the guy between the benches, especially if it's Colby? It's completely unnecessary and he offers nothing different than the color person in the booth, even though he's on ice. Guess I have to reinvest in a fucking radio again like in the dark ages, lol.
I remembered trashing Paul Bissonette with this post above, but he's actually really grown on me since then. This is a cheesy reason to like him, but the guy keeps it real, for lack of a better phrase. So many of these analysts/podcasters/etc. don't and they just say the convenient or acceptable thing. For example, I've always respected Jay Zawaski -- and maybe this is just one of those things where we simply disagree -- but on his podcast, he was actually (and quite vigorously) defending Leah Hextall's broadcasting with a straight face. I'm sorry, again I don't have any problems with Zawaski overall, but the dude has been around long enough and is smart enough to know that she's simply not good at that position. I get it, we should applaud females in new roles in the game, but a take like that is just disingenuous. Sometimes you just got to call it for what it is, and I've noticed Bissonette does that; not in regard to Hextall specifically, but in general, and I appreciate that.
I just want good broadcasters. Their groin plumbing means little to me. Not looking at their gender Hextall, Chelios, Cheesedick, and Konroyd all suck and shouldn't be in the broadcasting side of things...yet they are. IMHO that's the problem--not what gender they are but because of something completely unrelated to the job at hand, they're give it. It's the Peter principle in action:
There would have been a really simple alternative, which would be to mute the TV and just put the radio on with Wiedeman and Troy. But I thought I read somewhere a while back that they're scaling back Wiedeman for whatever dumb fucking reason. Regardless, I still may just do that.
No, that's an app that is mildly similar but is very, very limited in comparison. Do a search for IPTV service providers....there are hundreds of them out there with a lot of them offering free trials. Look for reviews on the ones that catch your eye but don't buy more than 3 month increments as these places tend to come and go. Ours is bit more expensive than a lot of the others but I'm splitting the cost with my son who lives about 20 miles away and it's a good one that's very reliable. Costs each of us about $80 a year. You do need a decent internet connection.....I've got 300 mbps but 100 would work just fine. I found this only because we both got tired of spending over $200 a month on cable bills. Only thing we kept was Comcast's excellent internet service.
I've tried that on Bear's games but I had trouble syncing up the 7 second delay....never tried on Hawks games. That was with cable. I would be a nightmare now as IPTV has a very long delay.....probably 40-50 seconds.
Ya know...I think this would work well enough to eliminate not only the helmet ads, but the ads along the boards.
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