Guest treble charged Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Stolen from TSN.ca: Hockey Night in Canada has a gaping hole to fill following Monday's announcement that host Ron MacLean would not be back after 17 years with CBC Sports. All I have to say is, 'Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!' This is TERRIBLE news. MacLean, IMO, is what makes HNIC entertaining. He's the perfect straight man for Don Cherry, and CBC is going to have a HELL of a time replacing him, especially considering the season starts in 2 weeks. Fuck.
Guest starvenger Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 I can't believe that they ponied up the cash for Cherry but not Maclean, who is much, MUCH more valuable as a host for HNiC and pretty much any other sporting event that they happen to have. Well, I guess that's the way it goes (flips pencil)...
Guest Kahran Ramsus Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Never cared for him. Cherry needs to go too.
Guest Brush with Greatness Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Boy, has there been some major backlash over at the CBC forums in the little time since the news has broke. And for those who care (and spread the word): http://www.petitiononline.com/ron1234/petition.html And just checking, in the five minutes since I have signed it the list has grown by about 30 more people. Me thinks CBC underestimated the popularity of one Ron MacLean.
Guest Slingshot Suplex Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Damn....I love Ron MacLean on HNIC.He's the face of the show to me.
Guest treble charged Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Yeah, I checked out the petition this morning at around 8, and there were 536 signatures. Now, 4 hours later, it's at over 2600.
Guest Slingshot Suplex Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Apparently people in Canada woke up and got pissed off. MacLean is the backbone of that show.I like Don Cherry but he's only on for about 5 minutes a week.MacLean has to be much more valuable to HNIC..or should be anyway.
Guest starvenger Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 MacLean is the backbone of that show.I like Don Cherry but he's only on for about 5 minutes a week.MacLean has to be much more valuable to HNIC..or should be anyway. You'd think so, wouldn't you? So, who's gonna be the new host? My guess is that they'll bring in Brian Williams to host until they can find someone to permanently fill the duties - if they don't give in and resign Maclean. I dunno if Williams can handle Cherry's idiotic droning, but I know he can hold a progam together pretty well - just don't let him do play-by-play...
Guest treble charged Posted October 1, 2002 Report Posted October 1, 2002 Mark Lee (I think that's his name, at least) may be a good choice. He's done some play by play, mostly in lesser play-off series (He did the Ottawa/Philadelphia first round series last year), plus, he did the women's games at the Olympics. They'll probably just get Scott Russel or Scott Oake, though, as they already had prominent roles on HNIC.
Guest Brush with Greatness Posted October 2, 2002 Report Posted October 2, 2002 Around the 24 hour mark of the online petition and it has already garnered 12000 + signatures. As well, the media is starting to pick up to the major backlash and it is getting some press.
Guest cobainwasmurdered Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 I've signed it. Damn it I want Ron back. I can't imagine HNIC without him along side Grapes.
Guest redbaron51 Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 what about Kelly Hrudey? damn the CBC, hock...i mean Leaf night in Canada I should say.
Guest treble charged Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 Kelly Hrudey is an analyst, just as Cherry is. He can't take MacLean's place, since they don't need another analyst.
Guest redbaron51 Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 .... I could do it. Yep going into college for broadcasting, saying how much the leafs, suck. I'll get kicked off in a minute
Guest cobainwasmurdered Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 It won't be the same. Ron was the perfect foil for Cherry.
Guest Karnage Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 I think they are having talks again, so he will probably end up back with the CBC anyways.
Guest cobainwasmurdered Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 His agent was quoted in the paper this morning saying that they hadn't been called back to the table yet...has there been an update on that?
Guest treble charged Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=6813 Here's something on it. They go back to the table tomorrow, apparently.
Guest Phr33k Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 The latest news says they're after Rex Murphy to replace MacLean. Why don't they get MACLEAN back? Ed Whalen would be great, but he's kind of dead... that sucks, he was always the best when he did the Flames on Calgary 7... I watch La Soiree du Hockey on SRC anyways, and you can look at my avatar to see why.
Guest treble charged Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 The red X tells you to watch a show that's not on anymore? Cool.
Guest cobainwasmurdered Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 The Red X works in mysterious ways
Guest Phr33k Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 Well, I can see the Habs logo. I wonder what's wrong with your computers...
Guest starvenger Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 The logo is probably cached in your temporary internet files, so you can see it but we can't.
Guest redbaron51 Posted October 3, 2002 Report Posted October 3, 2002 i can see it... anyways, didn't he signed with the CBC for 450,000 bucks
Guest starvenger Posted October 4, 2002 Report Posted October 4, 2002 Yeah, he just resigned, and all is right in the world. Except that I don't get CBC down here in Houston.
Guest Slingshot Suplex Posted October 4, 2002 Report Posted October 4, 2002 They resigned MacLean! Sweeet.....Now if I could just get this fantasy team finished by next Wednesday,then all will be ok
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