Make the Sportsnet West announcers sound so depressed you want to send them a gift basket later.  Good times!

Alanah, does it make me a bad person if I pray for Roger Millions to develop permanent laryngitis?  I guess another possible solution would be to hope that he’s takes Jim Hughson’s vacant spot on Sportsnet Pacific telecasts, but I have friends out in Vancouver, and I wouldn’t want to subject them to this torture.

At any rate, best of luck tonight against the Avs.

Well, I don’t know much about Roger Millions except I seem to remember he freaked out a bit at some fans on one of the Calgary forum boards last season—and I thought that was pretty awesome.  (But frankly, we’re still debating the possibility of kidnapping Hughson from CBC and holding him for ransom. We’ll see.)

As for your best wishes on the game tonight, thanks.  Luck is needed… ‘cause I’m pretty sure God has already abandoned us for freakin’ Edmonton.

Good god, Roger Millions should be taken off the airwaves ASAP, he is an absolutely pathetic and terrible announcer, and RSN West is terribly mistaken if they believe he is getting better or ever will get better.
I pray the CBC never comes knocking on his door.

The Avalanche are going down tonight, hopefully the Canucks can play with the same intensity they played with last night, for the first 20 minutes that is.

I assumed you watched the game on Sportsnet West through the Centre Ice package.  Are games that are on Canucks PPV not blacked out on the Centre Ice package?

Just wondering, cause I bought the season package of the Canucks PPV for $160.  And I remember that Centre Ice was available for an early bird price of $129.  If most canucks PPV games are on Centre Ice, its probably now more worth it.

Besides, I don’t want keep paying for the shoddy PPV product.

PuckHound61 -- I hope you’re right… about the Avs going down, that is.

Pinder -- No, I watched the same feed you did, the PPV feed.  (And is it just my setup, or is the sound really poor for that broadcast?? It sounds so much worse than a normal game). But anyway, during the game I heard from both a friend in Alberta (watching SN) and one in the States (catching it on CI), and both mentioned that the Calgary Sportsnet announcers sounded a bit personally devastated at early points of the game. 

So I was happy at the thought of that… until it all went wrong, of course.

Thanks for the update Alanah.  Yeah the sound was pretty bad.  I actually got up and checked my stereo setup to make sure it wasn’t on Mono or something.  It wasn’t.  It was CanucksTV.

Speaking of announcers, callers to Team1040 were ripping into Tom Larscheid because they felt he was cheering too much for Calgary, particularly Iginla and Phaneuf, by the 3rd period.  Come on now, he was calling it exactly like it was.  Besides, praising Iginla and Phaneuf is pretty much like taking a direct shot at Naslund and (especially) Bieksa’s play.

Center Ice has used the Canucks PPV feed in the past but not very often.