Worst Play-by-Play EVER!!

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Hockey in-game commentary needs to be completely overhauled. I haven't caught the NBC broadcast yet, but I've been told that their approach is more conversational and goes against the traditional "play-by-play" description that TV broadcasters have inherited from the days of radio. THAT'S the future.

If you ever watch English soccer games, the broadcasters over there know how to do it right. Do you really need some jerk informing you every step of the way about every pass, every shot, every action? Are we children? Are we so distrustful of our senses that we must be constantly reassured that we are not hallucinating? I mean, come on. In the future, broadcasters will give us the option to watch the game with the commentary on or off. I personally would choose to watch a game with it switched OFF, and just the sound of the crowd and the game. I am so sick of Bob Coles voice I think I'm gonna shoot myself.

After numerous complaints to the CBC about Bob and Harry, I'm at wits end with these 2 clowns! Recently my Mother, and I sat down to watch the Oilers play Anaheim in game 3 or 4 of this years playoffs. Now we had been most happy with the work of Jim Hughson to this point, but I guess that because the Sens got trashed out, that Bob and Harry had to come west and destroy a good thing.
My poor Mother was so frustrated with Bob's crappy attempt at play-by play, as her eyesight is failing and Bob could not keep up tp the play. He would go on wild tangents about how Darcy Tucker was a good candidate for the Liberal Leadership party, and Harry would still be telling you what every player was thinking at that very instance. At one point of the game, my wife thought that I was losing my marbles, so i told her to listen to this clown, and note the number of times that the puck was passed around before a players name was mentioned. She got up to 12 different players before dingbat Bob mentioned anyones name. Then it was the wrong player!! Could i blame my Mother for becoming frustrated trying to listen to this??
When is the CBC gonna wise up and leave these 2 clowns to broadcast only the Leafs games, and allow the rest of the country an opportunity to see and hear announcers who are up to speed with the game?

GOD BLESS THE OILERS!!!!

Cuthbert isn't a moron, he knows his sports. He has called a lot of games for a lot of sports for a lot of years. I do agree that Cole and Neale have a lot of excitement in their voices, but that doesn't make up for the ever increasing amount of errors. Unfortunatly any replacement is gonna suck even more than they do. At least these guys have experience and a sense of the history of hockey, they were there during the glory years of the league. They obviously love the game and it doesn't come across like it is a job to them. I always get the feeling that they wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

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Bob Cole is a Canadian Icon, and when he retires Hockey will truly have lost one of the great ones.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I knew it was going to be about Bob Cole. As a Toronto Maple Leafs fan I have to listen to him pretty much every Saturday...this usually results in me nearly putting my fist through a wall. Every summer i wish for his retirement so that all HNIC viewers can listen to a commentator who calls the game according to what ACTUALLY happens...

ahhh!! a man after my own heart. i too haven't been able to tolerate bob and harry for years. they are not only painful homers for the leafs but bob is always 12 passes behind the play, and he only mentions the names of the leaf players, he'll never mention the opposition players. harry thinks he's amusing, but alas he cannot reads minds, nor can he tell what a player is thinking at that very instance. (although he seems to think he can.)
bring on gord miller, and pierre mcguire.