At the half way mark, Avs and Leafs lead the league in injuries

[BluesyShoes]

Not sure if you’re referring to Avs announcers here but if you are i can help clarify. They do a pretty good job of talking up other teams star players and giving props. The issue with them is how they call the game. They go on long winded tangents that have nothing to do with the game and their color guy acts like a twelve year old all broadcast, every broadcast. They try to come up with catch phrases all the time and miss the mark drastically, they miscall plays and players nonstop. They upsell struggling Avs instead of objectively looking at what/where they need to improve, hell they were still insisting Georgiev was a solid #1 right up until the day he was traded.

They seem like genuinely good people and have some fundamentals that work really well in broadcasting but as a whole product they are very very lacking. Then add in the homerism and it’s easy to see why they are viewed as one of the poorest broadcasting crews in the NHL.

That's fair, I am not super familiar with Avs home broadcasts--I was more talking in general. I hear people criticize commentators, including criticizing my own regional guys, all the time for being homers, and that's what I thought the poster was alluding to. There's a guy who calls games for a rival team that I hear on national broadcasts, and whenever he calls games for his home team nationally, he can't help but slip into homerist playcalling and it is really irritating. His playcall would be totally appropriate for regional games, though, and probably wouldn't bother me if I knew I was watching an away feed. That's more what I was getting at.

Pandering, insulting players on the other team, self-interested color guys going on personal tangents, and everything else you are describing is just bad anywhere, so I hear you.

 

[JPT]

Edit: nvm already brought up