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John Davidson’s Input Improved Our Watching Experience
by Paul on 11/02/09 at 10:59 AM ET
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from John Shannon of Sportsnet,
Being inducted is a group of players who were certainly some of the game’s greatest. Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull, Luc Robitaille and Brian Leetch will be honoured next Monday night, as will New Jersey architect Lou Lamoriello. Between the five, their names are inscribed on the Stanley Cup 11 times. For the past two decades, these greats have left their mark.
Also being honoured will be Pittsburgh writer Dave Molinari, who will be the recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Award. Dave’s talent as one of America’s finest hockey writers, and driest senses of humour, is well documented within the game. And winning the Foster Hewitt Award is John Davidson.
With apologies to the five inductees and Molinari, I will admit my bias on JD’s award....
Proof of his knowledge and leadership is the success that has followed him in St. Louis with the Blues. The true impact, however, he has had on the game (and therefore deserving of the Hewitt award) can be measured by all the fans in both countries that have grown to enjoy the game because of his work.
And while the others will deservedly receive most of the attention next weekend, I wanted all to know how important John Davidson has been to the growth of the game and the NHL.
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Oh for crying out loud…
John Davidson called Rags games on MSG. Contrary to popular belief, the hockey world does *not* revolve around the Ranger or New York. There are likely a whole lot of hockey fans who never did see Davidson call a game. His broadcasting impact was, and is, very minimal at best.
For American fans if they think of hockey, they’re going to think of Thorne, Clement, Buccigross, Pang, the late Tom Mees, and Doc Emrick.
And as for Canada, they have their own announcers that mean a lot more to them and have obviously done a lot more. So he was on Hot Stove for what seemed like forever? Big deal.
I have nothing against Davidson, but to call him an “important” broadcaster to the game of hockey is fairly ridiculous, from any angle you want to attack it from.
Posted by Primis on 11/02/09 at 12:58 PM ET