In the Detroit area, so I get the CBC Windsor feed. And glad I do. It’s nice hear full play-by-play and guys who know the subtleties of the game. Otherwise, I’d watch NBC on mute while listening to the radio.

Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 06/04/08 at 08:31 AM ET

Been listening to Bob Cole call the SCF for as long as I can remember…if its true that this is his last one, its going to be weird next year!

Posted by Mac from Canada on 06/04/08 at 08:34 AM ET

It may be weird, but it is time for Bob to move on.  Jim Hughson is maybe the best play-by-play guy there is now and he is sitting at home and watching.  He just signed a 6-year so I expect to hear him next spring.  Bob was great, his time has passed…  Though I have to say he has been good during this series

Posted by WingMan from The Q C on 06/04/08 at 08:43 AM ET

When I’m was back in my hometown in Detroit for games one and two, I watched it on CBC. The rest of the time, I’m forced to watch it on NBC.

Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/04/08 at 09:01 AM ET

I wish I had CBC :( maybe I should move somewhere just for CBC :D

Posted by Johne on 06/04/08 at 09:22 AM ET

Live in SE Michigan but Dish Network doesn’t offer the CBC feed to me.  I will watch on NBC, but would prefer to watch it via CBC.

Posted by Millsz from Brownstown, MI on 06/04/08 at 09:23 AM ET

I grew up in metro Detroit and miss CBC a lot.

Having the NHL Network on cable is great for getting my hockey “fix” though—except when they act like a bunch of giddy school girls cheering for Pittsburgh. Larry Murphy is going to have so “splaining” to do if he plans on coming back to FSN Detroit next year. I hope someone puts together a reel on him and Bob Errey (another guy who played for both teams), and shows it to the boys in the Wings room. Maybe Probert or Kocur can take Murph’s place on FSN Detroit next season—or maybe Mathieu Dandenault, I hear he may be looking for work. 

RE: NBC—Is it calls like “Red Wings player falls over the stick of Penguins player” that make Mike Emrick a HHOF broadcaster? (And yes, except for the names, which I can’t recall, that was an actual call from Game 5. “Falls over the stick?” Way to tell it like it is, Mike. I mean, he’s not terrible, but HHOF? Sorry, I don’t get it.

BTW, I still have no idea who the guy hosting the intermission segments on NBC is or where they dug him up.

Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 06/04/08 at 09:26 AM ET

Man, you Red Wings’ fans are kinda bitter. Cheer up..you have the best team on the planet. Don’t blame the announcer when you lose…..The guy on NBC is Bob Neumier. He was the Hartford and Bruins PBP guy for a while. Then he did local TV sports in Boston. Now he does Olympic/Horseracing for NBC. He’s actually pretty good in my opinion. Milbury on the other hand is tough to listen to…..As for Bob Cole..all I read are bad things about the guy. That might be why he’s leaving. Personally, I have never heard him, however.

Posted by kevin from boston on 06/04/08 at 10:04 AM ET

Unfortunately, I’m stuck with NBC.  Having grown up in Michigan, I miss the CBC coverage.  My cable system doesn’t carry the NHL network so NBC is all I have.  One of the things I love about getting NHL Center Ice is getting to watch HNIC and some games on TSN and Rogers Sports Net.

Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 06/04/08 at 10:09 AM ET

CBC-feed via NASN in Europe (Germany to be specific)

btw: Please don’t complain ‘bout long nights when you’re living in US/CAN. Games start @2am local time over here and I don’t complain ‘cause they were helluva fun up to now - well, except for those bleeping 34.3|7 ticks…

Posted by yzemaze from Germany on 06/04/08 at 10:11 AM ET

Live in Vancouver, Watch on CBC. Our NBC feed from Seattle doesn’t seem to be carrying the weekday games.

Posted by agb on 06/04/08 at 10:18 AM ET

Live in a town about 45 minutes from Detroit.  DirecTV doesn’t offer CBC so I watch NBC, unless I really can’t take the commentators and go to my dad’s house 10 minutes away who gets CBC.

Mostly - NBC.

Posted by movesfan13 from Grand Rapids, MI on 06/04/08 at 10:23 AM ET

To those who can’t get CBC in the Detroit area because you have Dish or Directv, I was in the same boat until I split my comcast cable (for internet and phone) and plugged the coax into my TV.  Boom, you get the basic Comcast stations including CBC.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 06/04/08 at 10:27 AM ET

I live in the U.S. and watch the play via NBC HD. but then switch to CBC for the intermissions.

Posted by cementslinger from Midland MI on 06/04/08 at 10:33 AM ET

Man, you Red Wings’ fans are kinda bitter. Cheer up..you have the best team on the planet. Don’t blame the announcer when you lose.

We’re not.  We’re blaming the announcers for sucking!

I watch on CBC.  Cannot STAND NBC coverage - just bad, bad, bad.  If my only option were NBC, I’d mute it.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/04/08 at 10:50 AM ET

Kevin,

RE: Mike Emrick—I’m not blaming him for the loss at all (the Wings had plenty of chances to close it out and didn’t…grrrrr). Just saying that IMO he used a ridiculous euphemism to describe a trip. In essence, he was blaming the victim on that particular play. I would feel the same way if he said “Scuderi throws his face into Hudler’s stick.” It was—at best—a very poor choice of words from a long-time professional broadcaster who is going to be enshrined in the HHOF. Words do matter. They color people’s perception.

RE: Bob Neumier—Thanks for the heads up. As I said above, words matter. Mine on Neumier were too harsh. Especially considering I am not familiar with his work elsewhere.

RE: Larry Murphy—I was joking (mostly), hence the smiley face. In the past, I’ve actually defended Murph when other Wings fans say he sounds like a drunken idiot on FSN broadcasts. I was (and still am) happy for him when he got the NHL Network gig. That being said, however, it does seem like there is a completely different tone to the post-game coverage on NHL Network when the Penguins win. Giddy, or perhaps bubbly, is the best way I can describe it.

Anyway, sorry for coming across as bitter. What I really am is completely stressed out.

Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 06/04/08 at 11:09 AM ET

I would love to watch the games on CBC, but its not possible unless you live close to the Canadian border.
NBC is doing a decent job anyways, not great, but good enough.

Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 06/04/08 at 11:18 AM ET

I’m from Montreal and watch NBC for mainly one reason…so I don’t have to listen to Bob Cole. Get that man some glasses. He thought the winning goal by Sykora was stopped by Osgood before finally realizing it went in. He is awful. Slow in following the puck, makes mistakes on players names, goals and who got certain penalties. Even when there is a goal “SCORES” then a silent pause while he scrambles to figure out how the goal was scored and by who. Time for Bob Cole to pack his tent and go home which looks like will happen with the news that Jim Hughson will be calling the Stanley Cup Final. I really enjoy Mike Emrick on NBC so it will bew tough for me to decide between him and Hughson to watch the Finals next year but Cole is brutal and thus I choose to watch NBC. Seems a lot of people around Montreal are tuning in more to NBC than CBC for the Finals. RDS is still king here for the Finals coverage because it’s the French language network but more people appear to be choosing NBC here. Our local sports radio station always pumps the NBC broadcast especially because Pierre McGuire who makes daily appearances on that station works the NBC games. A lot of the Canadian media is praising NBC’s coverage over CBC and I’d agree that this season anyway it’s better and I would say much of that is CBC’s lack of presence between the benches like NBC has with McGuire and in the play-by-play position where Emrick trumps Cole by miles.

Posted by Steve on 06/04/08 at 11:24 AM ET

i just steal the cbc feed off the internet. i cant listen to nbc coverage because the annoucers have an agenda

Posted by FlyersFan on 06/04/08 at 11:33 AM ET

I watch on NBC but I am not close enough to the Canadian border to get CBC so I really don’t have a choice.  Emrick did not have a great game, I heard him say that Detroit was on the verge of winning its first Stanley Cup in 11 years.  I’d swear 2002 was less than eleven years ago but maybe I fell through a wormhole or something.

Posted by Mike from Idaho on 06/04/08 at 12:35 PM ET