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Khan(!) Ass.

I think Emrick is THE best NHL play by play announcer (sorry Kenny) and I’m glad he didn’t say that crap. Milbury is a tool and it’s no surprise they were his remarks. I’m sure Boston fans aren’t happy with this dick either. He’s put the Bruins down repeatedly over the past two days. This from a guy who’s one of the “it takes a Bruin to know the Bruins” analysts on NESN. Hey Mike… you’re FIRED! Ass.

How sad a commentary on the hockey media is it that no one really thought it that unlikely that Emrick would say something like that, though?  It’s like the official party line of North American hockey broadcasters.

At least his (undeserved) shots distracted some attention from Mike Milbury.  Maybe it gave Milbury some time to stitch up the gashes from the oh-so-well-deserved shots that he takes all the time, and will be taking once again as soon as he opens his mouth.

I’d like to see him call Zdeno Chara a “soft characterless European” to his face.  When he’s holding a microphone. 

Let’s rip on him anyway.

Not that I’ve ever needed a reason to cheap-shot someone, but referring to a goalie’s blocker as a ‘waffleboard’ is a damn fine place to start.

O-Joe,

The “waffleboard” reference comes from a time when most—if not all—blockers were brown and had little circles on their outer surface, making them look somewhat like a waffle (it seems I can remember them in the 1970s, but they may have been around before and after that too). If I remember correctly, the circular shapes were indented. I’m not certain what purpose, if any, they were supposed to fulfill.

Back to the main subject, when you re-read some of the quotes attributed to Mike Emrick, it does seem hard to believe they came out of his mouth. The phrasing is just un-Emrick-like.

Added NBC play-by-play man Mike Emrik: “I look forward to the battles between (Tomas) Holmstrom and Shea Weber, old school guy. I love watching Weber play. We like collisions and we like guys that can generate them, and it’ll be interesting to see because (the Predators) do have that bucket load of adrenaline and character. We’ll see how Detroit will stand up to that when they’re tested for the first time, which will probably be 20 seconds in.”

Milbury, on the other hand, I can definitely hear those words coming out of his pie hole.

Emrick has too much class and smarts to make such idiotic statements. Of course, I also defend Emrick because he got his Doctorate here at Bowling Green State University, but he’s also one of my favorite announcers.

FWIW, he talked with Ken Kal before the Hawks game on the radio and predicts a Wings/Habs SCF.

Yeah, I know from whence the term originates. 

It’s Dick Button describing a Brian Boitano triple Salchow in slow motion ghey is what it is.

I’ll always defend Emrick because he’s a native Hoosier & one of the dozens of Hoosiers that actually understand hockey.

Seriously, I wondered about those comments from the get-go since I never thought he was anti-euro in the past.  I feel much better knowing it came from that butthead Milbury.

Kahn = tool.

If I remember correctly, the circular shapes were indented. I’m not certain what purpose, if any, they were supposed to fulfill.

Usually stuff like that is done to provide increased strength without adding excessive thickness and, therefore, weight.

The “waffle” effect was a typical professional modification of equipment--when you cut holes in a blocker made of heavy leather, you shed pounds.  Eventually, it became such a fashion statement that most companies made blockers that way to help reduce weight, but whether the difference was notable or not is probably in the blocker hand of the beholding goalie. 

I mean, did you think that that stuff about the Reebok Edge jerseys being lighter and less wind-resistant was for those of us who think that “Play-dri” fabric = less beer stains? 

Many hockey players and especially professionals get so convinced that lighter is better that they weigh everything and cut here, cut there, take out protection and will even allow the basic structure of their gear to be compromised to achieve a lighter weight.  Sergei Fedorov’s Nike sticks kept breaking early on not only because Nike’s gear wasn’t good, but also because he basically told them to remove the fibreglass shielding and just give him a piece of graphite, and he demanded that his gloves be made without binding, which is pretty much impossible to do as binding’s all that holds some parts of equipment together. 

Yeah, so the holes were more about weight savings than anything else...and now back to your regularly scheduled non-nerd-dom…