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The official I love or hate Barry Melrose..

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funnnnn said:
Barry "I'll Prepare as little as possible" Melrose vs Bob "Prep schools are the only thing that matters" Norton.


I would just pass on either.
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I miss Adam Wodon. He did a super job at ESPN and at CSTV. Bring him back.
 
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Melrose just doesn't know much about college hockey. He apparently does know about the Cornell team. Bring on Doug Woog.
 
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theprofromdover said:
But Norton, unlike Melrose, loves college hockey. And Norton, unlike Melrose, is a nice guy.
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I met both of them at the Frozen 4 in St. Louis. Both seemed like nice guys to me, Barry seemed alright, but we did buy him a beer, so that probably helped. :p
 
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bigblue_dl said:
They should just get Wooger and Mazocco. Everyone knows they're the best.
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You win the thread.

I want to see Frank and Doug ask Bob Norton about prep schools while Brown's announcer rants incoherently about ECAC officiating. That would be the best.
 
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Though he's a moron, I'm pro-Melrose. I do not have a valid explanation as to why, however.
 
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LynahFan said:
In case anyone didn't know, one of the 3 weekends that Barry spent watching college hockey was when he broadcast the Cornell/UNH game. Cornell thoroughly dominated that game, including what Cornell fans are referring to as The Shift, when Cornell held the puck in UNH's zone for about 2:33 (at 5x5!) before scoring a back-breaking goal in the 3rd period to go up 4-2 en route to a 5-2 win. If that were the only college hockey game you watched all year, I could see why you'd be overly enamored with Cornell.

See for yourself: The Shift.
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The fact that you guys actually refer to that as, "The Shift" shows how absurd that series of event was. Classic example of UNH playing ZERO body hockey, not fighting for loose pucks in the corner, and we ALL saw how that turned out . . . :mad:
 
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Melrose hates college hockey. That's why he's broadcasting it for ESPN.
 
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ESPN, as whole, is a joke. Even their NFL guys have no idea what they are talking about half the time.
 
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theprofromdover said:
But Norton, unlike Melrose, loves college hockey. And Norton, unlike Melrose, is a nice guy.
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Nortons bias against Maine is so freakin' obvious its pathetic. He does like college hockey, if you say he's a nice guy I believe you. He can go play in the road just the same:)
 
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It took me a while but I love Norton now. He's a big, wacky, crazy New Englander with heavy biases (not just Maine but UNH too) but at his heart he truly loves the game and he's a nice guy. As a broadcaster he's not perfect, he tells too many anecdotes (though at least he usually knows what he's talking about), but I will take a genuine college hockey fan like that over Melrose, who looks like he'd rather be anywhere else and seems to be biding the time until ESPN gets hockey back (if they ever do).

In terms of ESPN's coverage, it was always solid until Tom Mees tragically drowned. He might have been a "pro broadcaster" but he did his homework and really brought an enthusiasm to his play calling...he was infinitely superior to most of the play by play guys they've used over the years since he died, Gary Thorne included. For a guy who used to be hockey's "defining announcer" (and someone with college experience), Thorne has sounded like he's been phoning it in the last few years -- lots of glaring mistakes and too much of the "schmooze" factor with Barry. Get a room guys -- watch the game instead! :D

Anyway, hopefully we'll hear more gems like when Steve Levy repeatedly called UNH "Rhode Island" in the late '90s :p
 
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unhpuckfan2001 said:
The fact that you guys actually refer to that as, "The Shift" shows how absurd that series of event was. Classic example of UNH playing ZERO body hockey, not fighting for loose pucks in the corner, and we ALL saw how that turned out . . . :mad:
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i counted three "hits" during that entire shift. i think any team could control the puck for that long if there was never any pressure on them.
 
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HockeyMan2000 said:
It took me a while but I love Norton now. He's a big, wacky, crazy New Englander with heavy biases (not just Maine but UNH too) but at his heart he truly loves the game and he's a nice guy. As a broadcaster he's not perfect, he tells too many anecdotes (though at least he usually knows what he's talking about), but I will take a genuine college hockey fan like that over Melrose, who looks like he'd rather be anywhere else and seems to be biding the time until ESPN gets hockey back (if they ever do).

In terms of ESPN's coverage, it was always solid until Tom Mees tragically drowned. He might have been a "pro broadcaster" but he did his homework and really brought an enthusiasm to his play calling...he was infinitely superior to most of the play by play guys they've used over the years since he died, Gary Thorne included. For a guy who used to be hockey's "defining announcer" (and someone with college experience), Thorne has sounded like he's been phoning it in the last few years -- lots of glaring mistakes and too much of the "schmooze" factor with Barry. Get a room guys -- watch the game instead! :D

Anyway, hopefully we'll hear more gems like when Steve Levy repeatedly called UNH "Rhode Island" in the late '90s :p
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Norton also knows all of the kids comming up through the ranks and usually, always mentions the prep school as well giving acolades to the coach. The reason he does show a bias towards Hockey east , he went there and his son played there .
 
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bigblue_dl said:
They should just get Wooger and Mazocco. Everyone knows they're the best.
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If they would take off the Gopher thongs for once they'd actually be pretty good. They are so pro-Gopher that I have trouble listening to them. Even when the Gophers aren't playing (Final Five weekend ahem) they were still anti-Sioux. But I guess i'd take that over BM who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
 
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dolan said:
If they would take off the Gopher thongs for once they'd actually be pretty good. They are so pro-Gopher that I have trouble listening to them. Even when the Gophers aren't playing (Final Five weekend ahem) they were still anti-Sioux. But I guess i'd take that over BM who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
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Maybe you should take off your green glasses and stop spreading lies.
 
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