TSN’s hockey experts, as they refer to them, weighed in on their Stanley Cup favorites (or favourites, as it were). Ready?
Question #1: The playoffs open one month from now. Who is your current Stanley Cup favourite: Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Jose, Washington, or Vancouver?
It wouldn’t be a playoff series if NBC didn’t screw up the scroll on the bottom of the screen. Here’s what happened last year.
Longtime TSN hockey fixture (and infamously colorblind NBC analyst) Pierre McGuire has named his All-Monster team, with Alex Ovechkin as the Monster Player of the Year:
He hits hard. He skates hard. Ovechkin plays with heart-felt passion, and his pure joy for the game is infectious.
There are other players who fit that description, [...]
Yea, a couple of us were watching yesterday’s broadcast at home and caught NBC analyst Pierre McGuire’s bizarre, I-had-an-indulgent-Sunday brunch-at-Clyde’s claim that “50 percent” of Verizon Center was comprised of Flyers’ fans. How ’bout a sobriety checkpoint between the players’ benches?
To their credit, McGuire’s on-air co-horts got in some good-natured jibes at their color-challenged colleague. [...]
Yesterday, the NHL held a media conference call with several big name broadcasters, Don Cherry of CBC’s “Hockey Night in Canada”, Mike Emrick from VERSUS and NBC, Pierre McGuire from TSN and NBC and Mike Milbury from NBC and TSN. Each broadcaster started the call with a few words about a series before they [...]
