News and Blog Report: Jack, Louie, and Geno are back

timekeep

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Apr 28, 2010
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Could do without Louie The Brusk tbh
I don't think much of this group, can't listen to Gene, if he is on pregame it goes over head as I ignore. During intermissions, depends who he is interviewing or the subject. Louie and Jack are OK, nothing special.
 

rboomercat90

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Mar 24, 2013
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I don't think much of this group, can't listen to Gene, if he is on pregame it goes over head as I ignore. During intermissions, depends who he is interviewing or the subject. Louie and Jack are OK, nothing special.
It’s easy to ignore Gene if he isn’t your cup of tea. Wait until the anthems are playing to turn the game on and take your bathroom breaks during intermission. I’ve barely watched him for years. You can’t do anything about the other two though. One is a carnival barker who frequently forgets he’s there to describe what’s going on in the hockey game and the other one hates the Oilers and actively cheers for whoever they are playing (which will be even worse this year because his kid is now playing for the Canucks). I don’t think this announcement is as popular with Oiler fans as the OP thinks it is.
 

guymez

The Seldom Seen Kid
Mar 3, 2004
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I know people love him, but personally?

Another year of watching the other feed as much as possible.
Yup.
Jack is an overhyped low quality PbP man. Louie is vanilla.
We get to once again listen to the Jack and Louie story hour with the occasional play by play call.
Just garbage.
Love Gene though. :thumbu:
 
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ThreeOfAPerfectPair

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Oct 26, 2017
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Really can't care about pbp and on air analysts when digital board ads exist. If the Oilers didn't have McDavid/Draisaitl I would have dropped watching NHL hockey entirely.
 
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guymez

The Seldom Seen Kid
Mar 3, 2004
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Put Louie back up in the press box and take him out from between the benches
That and he should also take a look at how he is coming across to the fans of the team he is almost exclusively covering.
Maybe its just me but Louie seems to gush over other teams and then pulls back on being too complimentary about the Oilers.
Is he trying not to appear too biased?
If thats the case then he is seriously overcompensating.
 
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TheGingaNinja

Edmonton Ex-Pat who still loves his hometown team.
Sep 26, 2019
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Gene is our pun master, he's a keeper.
Jack is an idiot, but he's our idiot, and I've grown kind of fond of him.
Louie is decent, and can have some meaningful analysis at times, but retreads a LOT of the same sayings and clichés (Shooter mentality needs to be retired tout suite).
 

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