Jack edwards is a bad announcer, it’s a truth everyone knows. He’s getting worse at calling the games and is guaranteed to have some weird incoherent rant or comment that blues between bizarre and uncomfortable at least once every twelve games. But the faux outrage by the hockey world on behalf of maroon is laughable. They’ve made countless fat kessel jokes about hot dogs and what not. Maroon comes out and says essentially, if you care that much about this And how it affects people than put up or shut up. I wonder if Seravelli or Dreger have turned their outrage into a donation?
The fact the hurricanes used that as an opportunity to be Uber petty and donate $$.19 is very on brand for the team run by 12 year olds (the signing bonus on their offer sheet comes to mind). For people who don’t know the significance, they let Hamilton wear a number (19) that was retired by the whalers and edwards went on a rant about it when they were outright wearing whalers jerseys. so they decided not to carry over the retired numbers, which who cares, it’s silly to count a past franchise/city as your own if you move. That being said, it rubbed people in CT who grew up watching that franchise the wrong way, of which edwards is one of them, the fact that they were making money off the likeness of the team they “stole” is also salt in the wound.