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Cozens played in the opener vs the Caps, that’s it. So this is his second game.

Almost as funny as it is classless. I don’t care who you are or who your opponents are, you don’t disrespect them like that. Ever.

Can’t speak for the Miami staff, but the Cincy hospital diagnosed and treated him for a concussion, which McDaniels confirmed in his post game his post game presser last night. As a result of that diagnosis, Tua is officially in the league’s concussion protocol.

So, we got lucky with Dan yet at the same time you’re confident that if you listened to him on the radio it “would be torturous?” Alrighty then.

As I said to Labatt above, that was a typo. Meant to say 5.5 hours. Bottom line is it’s a helluva lot more convenient and less wearisome to take direct charter flight than ride on a bus all in the same day.

Typo. Meant to say 5.5 hours. Then again, that’s in a car. A tour bus is gonna take a little longer, anyway.

Bus ride to Columbus is 5.5 hours. Bus ride from Pitt to Cleveland is 2.5 hours. Not similar in duration at all. A direct, charter flight from Buffalo to Columbus is less than an hour and a half. And pro sports teams aren’t going thru the regular public passenger terminals, either. That’s gonna take a lot less than 7.5 hours as well, all told.

Sabres had to take a bus to Columbus today?

That’s on Comrie. He saw it all the way.

I have PTSD related to any D man wearing #33.

Yay!

Gotta love a black screen with the scoreboard and game clock.

How about RJ’s first 35 years that preceded his last decade and a half? Did that pbp excellence earn him some credibility with his audience? Did it establish an endearing legacy that, even though we all knew his best days were behind him as he aged, allowed us to overlook his gaffes in the booth in his later years? Please. It’s a crime to even mention RJ’s name in the same sentence as DD’s.

I describe it as slow and unable to keep up with the action on the ice well enough to paint an accurate picture for those not able to watch on tv.

A TV call on radio cannot work. It’s impossible, especially with someone as slow on the call as DD, who has chronic problems keeping up with the sheer speed of the play. And that’s when he even bothers to do the actual pbp instead of blabbering on about something irrelevant to the action. Per the bold, it’s not about what the game deserves, it’s about what the listening audience deserves. Night in, night out. Regardless how good the team is, regardless of the magnitude of the game. If DD purposely can’t summon the excitement for a routine game, then he is holding his audience in contempt, imo. That said, everyone can have a bad night now and then and I wouldn’t hold that against a good pbp guy, except I wouldn’t know if DD is having a bad night or not given what I think of his ability in the first place. But again, that’s not his problem. His problem is that he is simply too slow and can’t keep up with the action well enough to give even a halfway decent picture of the action to his radio audience. His best work is as a feature reporter. He’s good at that. It’s not his fault he just doesn’t have the requisite play by play chops the job requires.

Whether a team is good or not should have no bearing at all on a pbp announcer’s ability to do his job. And if that’s the case with DD, he should be fired immediately. He owes his best to the fans, regardless.

We need to cut them some slack here. It’s an in-house, closed circuit tv signal being streamed over the internet. There is no TV production team, no chyronographics, no tv audio, etc.

He’s utterly incapable of keeping up with the play. Case in point was when he was describing the puck battle below the Philly goal line, 5 seconds elapse, and his very next play by play is something about Buffalo now backing up and watching the Flyers bring it over the Sabres blue line. I mean WTF happened between the puck battle below the Philly goal line and the Flyers entering the Sabres zone. Brutal.

They were 6-1 in one score games in 2020 with pretty much the same cast of characters as 2021/2022.

Myopia is a word that comes to mind.

He’s a feature reporter only. Been saying it since he came here, he literally cannot keep up with the play. If you have to rely on radio play by play only, you’re screwed.

Comrie and Suban for Blue, UPL and Anderson for Gold. I think Subban was the goalie that Dahlin scored on, so it looks like Comrie pitched a shutout during his stint.

Like Lindy always said, “Let’s roll four.”

I heard that Matthew Pegula is demanding that Adams, Karmanos, and all the scouts run the team based on EA NHL 23 algorithms.