I love summer, being a Canadian is not hard to understand why. After temperatures that can reach -20o Celsius, and never ending snow storms, you don't need to use rocket science to figure out that summer has the taste of prize, if managed to survive the winter, now it's time to lay on the sun, and enjoy the Stanley play offs and the big final, every thing you survived winter for.
From then on, I must admit that things become a little boring as, I am not a huge fan of summer sports, I start to dig deep into sports television to find a piece of sports entertainment, that could be used to spend the rest of the season. NASCAR and Golf become my two best friends, but I am always counting down the days for the summer to end then I know NHL conferences will start pretty soon.
Today as I looked into the schedules for the season to come, I caught myself thinking that summer was taking too long. I need hockey and I am ready for the action. Let the boys hit the ice!!!! I have already started doing my arrangements so that I don't miss a single second of any game, had to speak with the TV broadcasting provider in London to make sure that they solve last year’s problems, and also make the broadcasting a little bit more interesting. Hope it works.
As for now I can only wish that summer is over soon, and that autumn brings back the hockey and all its emotions.
GO Sens GO
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
“Colisms” – The good, the bad and the ugly of Bob Cole.
Lately I have been thinking about the iconic Hockey Night in Canada “play by play” commentator Bob Cole. And while I respect his work and role in the Hockey broadcasting world, I have to question why he has been so successful and been around for so long?
Bob Cole has had a staggering career, he began broadcasting hockey on radio in 1969 and moved to television in 1973 when HNIC expanded its coverage. He then went on to call all of the Stanley Cup Finals between 1989 and 2008. He was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996 for broadcasting excellence… excellence? I’m not so sure.
There is no doubt he has the “classic” commentators voice, at times soothing and that he has a passionate and emotional enthusiasm for the game. But ever since I can remember, watching a game with Bob Cole commentating is like “watching a game blind” as they say. His catch phrases and trademarks like “oh baby,” “what a dandy,” referring to the game itself as “baby,” speeding up and slowing down his sentences without clear reason can be at times endearing but at others frustrating. The way he never clearly describes the location of the puck on the ice often saying “over there” and describing the players as “they” or “he” is confusing! And certainly not what I would think of as “play by play” descriptive commentary.
While I can see the amusing side of all this and that Bob Cole is surely an alright guy I do think it is remiss of CBC to have kept him on for so long. Hockey is an emotionally charged game for most Canadians and when a particularly adrenaline inducing game comes along there is nothing more frustrating than having a commentator who seems to know less than you about what’s going on. Hence, the expression “watching the game blind” as at times you literally have to try and fill the gaps yourself.
Check out this link:
“This is it BABY!!! This has gone WILD!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ZYjUgIZ7A
Nick
Bob Cole has had a staggering career, he began broadcasting hockey on radio in 1969 and moved to television in 1973 when HNIC expanded its coverage. He then went on to call all of the Stanley Cup Finals between 1989 and 2008. He was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996 for broadcasting excellence… excellence? I’m not so sure.
There is no doubt he has the “classic” commentators voice, at times soothing and that he has a passionate and emotional enthusiasm for the game. But ever since I can remember, watching a game with Bob Cole commentating is like “watching a game blind” as they say. His catch phrases and trademarks like “oh baby,” “what a dandy,” referring to the game itself as “baby,” speeding up and slowing down his sentences without clear reason can be at times endearing but at others frustrating. The way he never clearly describes the location of the puck on the ice often saying “over there” and describing the players as “they” or “he” is confusing! And certainly not what I would think of as “play by play” descriptive commentary.
While I can see the amusing side of all this and that Bob Cole is surely an alright guy I do think it is remiss of CBC to have kept him on for so long. Hockey is an emotionally charged game for most Canadians and when a particularly adrenaline inducing game comes along there is nothing more frustrating than having a commentator who seems to know less than you about what’s going on. Hence, the expression “watching the game blind” as at times you literally have to try and fill the gaps yourself.
Check out this link:
“This is it BABY!!! This has gone WILD!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7ZYjUgIZ7A
Nick
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
DRAFT, FREE AGENTS AND WHAT TO DO IN THE OFF SEASON?
As the excitment of the previous years Stanely Cup finals starts to wear off and slowly a void begins to emerge...what is one to do? How should we spend this time without being able to watch the great game? meditating? preparing for the next season? watching re-runs of great Stanely Cup eras? I open the floor to suggestions on this topic, what is a hockey fan to do???
One way of course is to follow the endless deals and dramas of the entry draft and free agent frenzy. Although the quailty of this years prospects seemed a little low the soap opera style drama that played out between Taylor vs Tyler has been mildly entertaining. In regards to the SENS Brian Murray trading away the 16th first round pick, I do agree with the logic that the player the SENS need was not really in that range of the draf. So to trade it for David Runblad who in theory is going to be ready to peform for Ottawa by 2012, is a good decision I think. This quote from chief scout Pierre Dorion puts it quite nicely:
"We felt David Rundblad was going to be better than any player we were going to be able to get in this draft...That's why we did the deal. I know it's not sexy that we didn't go on stage and draft somebody into the organization. But, we felt whoever we take, this guy is going to be a better player. He's a top-four defenceman who moves the puck. He does a lot of things for us."
Agreed Pierre. Although I don't know if anyone has ever considered the Entry Draft sexy.
In the free agrent world, I am excited about Sergei Gonchar being signed so quickly and think that he will be great for the Ottawa D (and for 16.5mil over 3 years he better be!) But I do think that he will add some offence that is needed to balance out the play. I will miss the A-Train and his amazing shot blocking and heavy hitting capabilities though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRM-oWqsKBc
One way of course is to follow the endless deals and dramas of the entry draft and free agent frenzy. Although the quailty of this years prospects seemed a little low the soap opera style drama that played out between Taylor vs Tyler has been mildly entertaining. In regards to the SENS Brian Murray trading away the 16th first round pick, I do agree with the logic that the player the SENS need was not really in that range of the draf. So to trade it for David Runblad who in theory is going to be ready to peform for Ottawa by 2012, is a good decision I think. This quote from chief scout Pierre Dorion puts it quite nicely:
"We felt David Rundblad was going to be better than any player we were going to be able to get in this draft...That's why we did the deal. I know it's not sexy that we didn't go on stage and draft somebody into the organization. But, we felt whoever we take, this guy is going to be a better player. He's a top-four defenceman who moves the puck. He does a lot of things for us."
Agreed Pierre. Although I don't know if anyone has ever considered the Entry Draft sexy.
In the free agrent world, I am excited about Sergei Gonchar being signed so quickly and think that he will be great for the Ottawa D (and for 16.5mil over 3 years he better be!) But I do think that he will add some offence that is needed to balance out the play. I will miss the A-Train and his amazing shot blocking and heavy hitting capabilities though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRM-oWqsKBc
Monday, 28 June 2010
and now Nick presents "The Holy World Cup"
Every sport has its main attraction, for tennis there is Wimbledon, for Rugby there is the 6 nations, for golf there is the Masters and for football you have the World Cup. I like football, don't get me wrong, the point is that no other sport is able to produce the amount of fanatics then football, I mean how many riots have you heard that have caused by a golf fan that was unhappy with its choice of support????? The biggest scandal in golf was involving Tiger Woods, and actually he was only doing something that among the football world is as trivial as playing football itself. There seem to me as if there is a sort of fanaticism within the football world, that goes far and beyond what one could consider healthy, it is something close to worshiping. It makes me wonder, would football be the new mass religion, and the world cup the main cult???????? I leave the question open for public answer.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
This is the bottom line, as Steve Austim would say so
I am not a guy to go around and see every piece of cinematograph ever produced, but today taken by curiosity I went to what I prefer to refer to as "THE END OF LIFE AS WE KNOW IT".
The name of the masterpiece: "Tooth Fairy" the leading actor: the once known as THE ROCK, well known World Wrestling Entertainment superstar.
Any guy on its 20s will remember the days of smelling what the Rock was cooking, the peoples champion, as he so many times liked to describe himself. Well, WWE wrestler is not exactly the type of job that your mom would say on the day of your birth - "I would like my son to be a WWE wrestler, a superstar!!" can you imagine that?? I can't. Although is a profession that in most of times is driven by passion, I also thing that can be somewhat profitable, but passion comes first.
Going back for the potatoes, the Rock was one of the most well known wrestlers and boy was he ever good. But it seems to me as if all that he had conquered for himself wasn't enough, and like a season bird he flew to bring spring to other areas. Did it work??? I am very sure that it might, I mean he isn't, lets face, the best actor the world has even seen, actually far from that, I think that on his movies he can only play one character, THE ROCK.
It does not matter what's his role on the movie, from Egyptian Mummy, American Cop, driver, detective and the most recent one tooth fairy, the only thing I can see is the wrestler, and that must be part of why his movies have such a bad review. I mean, you want to see THE ROCK at his best behaviour, at the rink with long boots and a pair of swimming trunks.
People shouldn't fight it’s nature, it is not only silly but also useless. The bottom line for all that would be: "THE ROCK EXCHANGED BEING ONE OF THE GREATEST WRESTLER TO BECOME A LESS THAN AVAREGE, MEDIOCRE MOVIE ACTOR". -"CAN YOU SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING???????"
The name of the masterpiece: "Tooth Fairy" the leading actor: the once known as THE ROCK, well known World Wrestling Entertainment superstar.
Any guy on its 20s will remember the days of smelling what the Rock was cooking, the peoples champion, as he so many times liked to describe himself. Well, WWE wrestler is not exactly the type of job that your mom would say on the day of your birth - "I would like my son to be a WWE wrestler, a superstar!!" can you imagine that?? I can't. Although is a profession that in most of times is driven by passion, I also thing that can be somewhat profitable, but passion comes first.
Going back for the potatoes, the Rock was one of the most well known wrestlers and boy was he ever good. But it seems to me as if all that he had conquered for himself wasn't enough, and like a season bird he flew to bring spring to other areas. Did it work??? I am very sure that it might, I mean he isn't, lets face, the best actor the world has even seen, actually far from that, I think that on his movies he can only play one character, THE ROCK.
It does not matter what's his role on the movie, from Egyptian Mummy, American Cop, driver, detective and the most recent one tooth fairy, the only thing I can see is the wrestler, and that must be part of why his movies have such a bad review. I mean, you want to see THE ROCK at his best behaviour, at the rink with long boots and a pair of swimming trunks.
People shouldn't fight it’s nature, it is not only silly but also useless. The bottom line for all that would be: "THE ROCK EXCHANGED BEING ONE OF THE GREATEST WRESTLER TO BECOME A LESS THAN AVAREGE, MEDIOCRE MOVIE ACTOR". -"CAN YOU SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING???????"
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
GOD PLEASE A BIT MORE AND....
.... I am going to consider offence. I mean when I had just posted a thing here saying that the commenter's for this IIHF championship where bounding the limit of acceptance, Belarus went to play Slovakia, definitely it is the worse thing I have ever heard on sports television during my entire life, and probably I will never hear anything like that again, what a pearl.
It is just so hard to start describing. Let me see, it is a non English competent commenter, I don't know what is his first language but English is not even his second. Things like "to to to" (being two to two), "Ahhhh, I don't know what he is going to do, wait", " to Sloveikia, no Slovakia, Sloveikia?" hahahahahahahaha, I can only laugh. There is more its hard to trans pass the complexity of the problem - "Back to Colonia" what did he mean?? Cologne???? "To minutes in the penalty box, Sury the second power play in the MATCH for Slovekia, Slovakia" " the to times stops of the game" " THE puck, THE shot, THE goal" "see it is another shot, WHY??? Oh what a check, what the move" I am telling you in this very sequence, you think it is all??? Not there is more much more: " THE chance, THE safe, THE block, THE defence, what a game!!" "Oh yes, you can see good penalties for Belorus on the second period" although it was the third period. "And the is THE off site for Slovekia, Slovakia" and just to put an end on the subject, "there is 5 minutes on this 4th perio" (There are only 3 periods) and there is a "SHA - SHOT" to conclude.
OH NELLY WHAT A DENDY!!!!!
It is just so hard to start describing. Let me see, it is a non English competent commenter, I don't know what is his first language but English is not even his second. Things like "to to to" (being two to two), "Ahhhh, I don't know what he is going to do, wait", " to Sloveikia, no Slovakia, Sloveikia?" hahahahahahahaha, I can only laugh. There is more its hard to trans pass the complexity of the problem - "Back to Colonia" what did he mean?? Cologne???? "To minutes in the penalty box, Sury the second power play in the MATCH for Slovekia, Slovakia" " the to times stops of the game" " THE puck, THE shot, THE goal" "see it is another shot, WHY??? Oh what a check, what the move" I am telling you in this very sequence, you think it is all??? Not there is more much more: " THE chance, THE safe, THE block, THE defence, what a game!!" "Oh yes, you can see good penalties for Belorus on the second period" although it was the third period. "And the is THE off site for Slovekia, Slovakia" and just to put an end on the subject, "there is 5 minutes on this 4th perio" (There are only 3 periods) and there is a "SHA - SHOT" to conclude.
OH NELLY WHAT A DENDY!!!!!
... And there is a chance... YEAH!
"...and there is a chance, YEAH!" what the hell is that???? I mean, watching to the IIHF 2010 World Hockey Championship, has been not only a learning activity but also a character enhancer. I am, on the next lines, going to explain you why.
A hockey championship needs a lot of things in order to happen, despite of all the organization things, but it needs hockey players, officials, public, good a structure and of course comenters.
Germany 2010, has done a great job in all the organization of the championship, the stadiums look fantastic, the countries did very well and have sent a great collection of players to represent them. The audience, well done, it is wonderful to see that there are many people that really appreciate the game, even the officials are doing their homework. Although the commenters, what-a-joke. I mean, where did they take those guys from (I don't wanna sound rude, but I think they are all very good football comenter, ups!), most of them had never really watched a hockey game in their lives.
Things like - "..and he scored the goal with a puck!" something like yeah!!! It is still a hockey game, you do score goals with pucks, and sticks, and you skate. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
They are driving me towards insanity speaking about the obvious instead of commenting about relevant hockey stuff, but that is not all, they are boring, there isn't any excitement on their comments anyone could be doing it, even my 80 year old grandmother would be doing a better job, she is much more cool than the commenters. Where did Germany took them from???? It makes me miss my NHL commenters, where are those fine men when we need them the most.
A hockey championship needs a lot of things in order to happen, despite of all the organization things, but it needs hockey players, officials, public, good a structure and of course comenters.
Germany 2010, has done a great job in all the organization of the championship, the stadiums look fantastic, the countries did very well and have sent a great collection of players to represent them. The audience, well done, it is wonderful to see that there are many people that really appreciate the game, even the officials are doing their homework. Although the commenters, what-a-joke. I mean, where did they take those guys from (I don't wanna sound rude, but I think they are all very good football comenter, ups!), most of them had never really watched a hockey game in their lives.
Things like - "..and he scored the goal with a puck!" something like yeah!!! It is still a hockey game, you do score goals with pucks, and sticks, and you skate. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
They are driving me towards insanity speaking about the obvious instead of commenting about relevant hockey stuff, but that is not all, they are boring, there isn't any excitement on their comments anyone could be doing it, even my 80 year old grandmother would be doing a better job, she is much more cool than the commenters. Where did Germany took them from???? It makes me miss my NHL commenters, where are those fine men when we need them the most.
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