Does anyone else hate the NBC B team?

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Kenny Albert:

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Joe Micheletti:

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Brian Engblom:

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I cannot stand these guys doing the broadcasts... Kenny Albert I can deal with doing play-by-play as long as I don't have to look at him on camera, he does a decent enough job.

But when it comes to the color commentary and discussion they have about the game.... its like 2 meatball hockey fans were handed mics and told to go talk about stuffzzz.

And to be clear, this is not about them fapping to the Ducks last night..... they fap to the team that is winning, it can be annoying but the Ducks were playing well for much of the game.

All of their discussion sounds like meatball drool to me.... Ermagherd da BOARD BATTLEZZZZ AND DA KANERZZZZ AND DA TAZERSZZZ AND DA DUCKSZZZZZ WIT DA GETZLAFSZZZZZZ. Once in a while they have a good nugget of conversation but otherwise they drown you in a sea of meatball gravysauce.

At least Doc and Edzo can drown out Pierre and have some decent convo.... Edzo tends to break things down and talk hockey without coming off as a total meatball and he will be critical of players and talk about who isn't performing rather than just mouth-fapping to whomever happens to be playing well.
 

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Yeah, they suck.
 

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Do you dislike their call of the game for the same reason I do or something else?
Pretty much. I don't mind Kenny Albert's voice... I don't mind him in football either...But the rest of the team just makes me want to turn it off.
 

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They make Dave Strader look like a quality objective broadcaster in my view
 

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Pretty much. I don't mind Kenny Albert's voice... I don't mind him in football either...But the rest of the team just makes me want to turn it off.

Same here.... Kenny Albert doing play-by-play is better than Dave Strader.... he has some enthusiasm and excitement to his calls but he lets the other 2 dorks drown the broadcast in fucktardery.
 

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I have Gamecenter and the Canadian broadcast is much better. The problem is the frame rate seems to be out of whack most of the time, I think when it's on CBC, where all games are right now. There's also too much compression, looks like when I used to have cable

So I have to choose between great picture or decent commentary (last night the guy called Teuvo Timonen a few times). I usually start with America, then when I have enough of "Anaheim's physicality" I switch to Canada

For in studio coverage I go Canada and flip to NBC when they have commercials


PS When the game is on NBC, I use that because I can get it over the air and the gamecenter stream is delayed like two minutes

PPS When they have the A team I go NBC
 

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They make Dave Strader look like a quality objective broadcaster in my view

Strader is boring at calling the games and highly biased when he comments on the game.... Kenny at least does his job and mostly shuts the hell up, unfortunately the voices filling in the gap fill it with drool.
 

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Same here.... Kenny Albert doing play-by-play is better than Dave Strader.... he has some enthusiasm and excitement to his calls but he lets the other 2 dorks drown the broadcast in fucktardery.

When the broadcast starts and Kenny says "The Stanley Cup Playoffs on NBC" he sounds like a Special person, otherwise I feel the same
 

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DA GETZLAFSZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!! :kermit:
 

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Engblom sounds out of place. Like he's a commentator in a video game
 

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If the NBC prime time team of Doc/Edzo are not gonna do a game they should just allow the local broadcast folks to do it.... then at least you get the comfort of your home town homers covering the game if its not Doc/Edzo.

I think 99% of hockey fans would agree their local guys > NBC B team and not just because the local guys support their team.
 

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I think they are outstanding. Not sure where all the hate is coming from.

Would like to see any of you call a game.
 

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I think 99% of hockey fans would agree their local guys > NBC B team and not just because the local guys support their team.
So...roughly half of fans?
 

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I think they are outstanding. Not sure where all the hate is coming from.

Would like to see any of you call a game.

Bad troll..... bad!
 

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As Dan McNeil used to call him, 'The high functioning Kenny Albert'
 

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Kenny Albert is a football guy, he sounds like a football guy, he does not sound like a hockey guy and when he does hockey he annoys the fuck out of me. Engblom is fine but the other two are just god fucking awful
 

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Don't care much for any of them, the color guy (I don't care to even know his name) is the most offensive to me.... maybe in all sports.
 
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