UPGRADE...you lucky BBBB’s fans!

Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/09/09 at 01:48 PM ET

I don’t know about this. Conklin’s better. Good for Pang. He’s so much better than Pierre.

Posted by cs6687 on 07/09/09 at 01:58 PM ET

St. Louis is getting one of the few good color guys out there.

Posted by Primis on 07/09/09 at 02:10 PM ET

First Andy Murray, now Panger? It’s getting harder and harder to hate the Blues.

Posted by Predneck from Hicktown on 07/09/09 at 02:20 PM ET

Aww, thanks guys. Backhanded compliments are probably the best thing a Blues fan could hope for at Kukla’s Korner. I think Nick Lidstrom’s a good guy, for the record.

Posted by JG on 07/09/09 at 02:44 PM ET

Awesome, replacing half of one of the worst TV tandems in the league. Wait, what’s that? You’re keeping Federko as a between-the-benches third wheel? Ugh. C’mon JD, you should know better.

Posted by shep on 07/09/09 at 02:56 PM ET

Aww, thanks guys. Backhanded compliments are probably the best thing a Blues fan could hope for at Kukla’s Korner.

<snort>

Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/09/09 at 03:12 PM ET

pang >>>>>mcguire

mcguire is the reverse 360 of don cherry. plus mcguire gives pens advice while he’s ‘behind the glass’

Posted by FlyersFan on 07/09/09 at 03:28 PM ET

mcguire is the reverse 360 of don cherry.

I can’t even begin to extrapolate what you’re trying to get at with that description, unless it’s an iniside barb at Pierre or Don I’m not aware of…

Posted by Primis on 07/09/09 at 03:52 PM ET

mcguire is the reverse 360 of don cherry. plus mcguire gives pens advice while he’s ‘behind the glass’
Posted by FlyersFan on 07/09/09 at 04:28 PM ET

“A 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin—*180*! If I did a 360, I’d go completely around and end up back where I started!"--name that movie.

Posted by Animal Drew from A Nightmare on Helm Street on 07/09/09 at 04:01 PM ET

Backhanded compliments are still compliments. 

Good choice.  I think the fans will appreciate the difference in the broadcast immediately.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/09/09 at 05:17 PM ET

“A 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin—*180*! If I did a 360, I’d go completely around and end up back where I started!"--name that movie.

Posted by Animal Drew from The Mitten on 07/09/09 at 05:01 PM ET

Last Action Hero.  “I snap my fingers again and sometime tomorrow you emerge from several canine recta” Awesome, Drew.

Panger is a huge upgrade, one of my favorite commentators.

Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 07/09/09 at 05:55 PM ET

...and its status is in such flux that Pang said the club doesn’t have a TV deal in place for next season.

“There was no one to negotiate with,’’ he said. “So you can understand that trying to get some answers and trying to figure out where you stand’’ was impossible.

Pang and Strader were the best. I’m going to miss him here in Phoenix. Dave Strader is one of the best play by play announcers I’ve ever heard. I grew up listening to him and Mickey Redmond back in Michigan.  And Panger is Panger, he has so many friends in the league, he always gets a great interview. St. Louis fans should be happy.

Posted by Aaron from Phoenix on 07/09/09 at 11:31 PM ET

Holy Jumpin!  You gotta be kiddin’ me?
We will miss Panger.  Good luck in St. Louis.

Posted by Ray from Phoenix, AZ on 08/05/09 at 02:10 AM ET