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Milbury to Join Hockey Night in Canada
by Alanah McGinley on 07/21/08 at 03:38 PM ET
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From CBC:
Hockey Night in Canada will welcome a familiar face and opinionated hockey mind next season, with Mike Milbury joining the show as an analyst.
Milbury, who has spent over 30 years in the NHL as a player, coach and general manager, will also be a regular contributor to the Hot Stove segment on HNIC.
“We’re very pleased to welcome Mike to our talented broadcast team,” HNIC executive producer Sherali Najak said in a statement. “His experience as an NHL player and executive is reflected in an entertaining on-air style. We look forward to his honest opinions and knowledge on what’s happening around the NHL on a weekly basis.”
Update 3:53pm ET: Speaking of Milbury’s “entertaining style,” that sort of demands we point to this video (embedded below). The footage is terrible, but somewhere in that muck you can see #28 beating a hockey fan with his own shoe…
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I’ve learned that this does not necessarily mean that Mad Mike is done at NBC.
Posted by Steve from New Jersey on 07/21/08 at 02:58 PM ET
How does this guy keep getting jobs? He was a horrible player, horrible GM and horrible analyst. He was a decent coach with Bourque and Neely on his team but who wouldn’t be......
Posted by kevin from boston on 07/21/08 at 03:56 PM ET
Blech. :(
I’ve learned that this does not necessarily mean that Mad Mike is done at NBC.
That just makes it worse. There will be no avoiding the man.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/21/08 at 04:11 PM ET
That video reminded me of Canadian Bacon.
John Candy would have made an excellent addition to the Satellite Hotstove instead of Milbury. :(
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 07/21/08 at 04:21 PM ET
Somebody somewhere in sometime must like him. But everyone I have ever talked to hates the guy.
Posted by Stewart on 07/21/08 at 05:03 PM ET
“We’re very pleased to welcome Mike to our now less talented broadcast team,” HNIC executive producer Sherali Najak said in a statement. ... “We look forward to his opinionated blathering and surprising lack of knowledge on what’s happening around the NHL on a weekly basis.”
There. Fixed.
Posted by BobTheZee on 07/21/08 at 05:44 PM ET
Did HNIC get taken over by the Maple Leafs? They’re running the franchise into the ground.
Posted by Osrt on 07/21/08 at 09:04 PM ET
BobTheZee - Well played, sir.
The Hot Stove hasn’t been the same since John Davidson went to St Louis and Al Strachan disappeared. Bringing in Milbury will not help. Maybe HNIC can bring back the old “shootout” feature from the ‘70’s.
Posted by mc keeper from The Home Of Lord Stanley on 07/21/08 at 09:08 PM ET
Leave it to the government to bring in the worst of the private sector.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 07/22/08 at 09:42 AM ET
I’m pretty sure Milbury was #26. It’s hard to see in that grainy footage, but I remember this from other vintage Bruins games.
Posted by Doogie2K from Calgary, AB on 07/22/08 at 06:54 PM ET
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