Jeff Marek no longer with Sportsnet - Unknown why

[Honour Over Glory]

Steve Dangle is actually pretty good, if you actually listen to him outside of his Leafs rants where he goes into character. And it's obvious that you don't.

"Leafs homer", well yeah. He literally got famous for being a ranting Leafs fan.

I've seen his takes while not in character, it's not that ground breaking. He doesn't have anything interesting to say and just sort of repeats others thoughts in his own way like he's saying something new, which he isn't.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

A 30 second interview with an overwhelmed 18 year old isn't where anybody shines.

He's much better as a podcast and radio host.

Those interviews are always awful as well - "How do you feel about being drafted by _______" and "tell me something about yourself that we haven't mentioned to death already with scouting reports so we can make this as super awkward and boring as we can."

"Tell me, if you could eat any cheese for the rest of your life, which cheese would it be?" - Like that level of absurdity.

 

[Warden of the North]

Career wise, he's 55 and departing from one of the big 2 networks, what are his options? Is he that major a name that TSN would pick him up given the people they already have? Doubt it.

Would anyone consider him a needle mover? Probably not.

See where he ends up landing.

TSN would hire him for a radio slot in Toronto for sure. He used to host Leafs Lunch when it was on AM640 twenty years ago before it even went to TSN.

That show has been rudderless for years after they moved Hayes ONeill and McLennan to a different timeslot/show.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

In all likelihood when he's finally able to say what the reason is and we all keep speculating - my bet would be that he was likely being courted by another network to bolster their hockey coverage and Sportsnet just decided to cut ties with him instead of paying up to keep him and Marek isn't allowed to speak about it until his contract is officially done or whatever it is. Rogers is cheap af and has been slowly making their network worse each year.

 

[Golden_Jet]

They should replace him with steve dangle

Hopefully that’s in jest.

 

[GKJ]

It seems this was a triggered event, but the writing was on the wall when they took him off Saturday nights.

They were supposed to do a season ending 32 Thoughts pod after free agency, now we know why we didn’t get it.

 

[deca guard]

hopefully bob mckenzie hooks up with freidman

 

[Golden_Jet]

In all likelihood when he's finally able to say what the reason is and we all keep speculating - my bet would be that he was likely being courted by another network to bolster their hockey coverage and Sportsnet just decided to cut ties with him instead of paying up to keep him and Marek isn't allowed to speak about it until his contract is officially done or whatever it is. Rogers is cheap af and has been slowly making their network worse each year.

Possibly, but unconfirmed draft reasons, make it sound like something else

 

[GKJ]

Career wise, he's 55 and departing from one of the big 2 networks, what are his options? Is he that major a name that TSN would pick him up given the people they already have? Doubt it.

Would anyone consider him a needle mover? Probably not.

See where he ends up landing.

My guess is he can go back to working with Greg Wyshynski, but I don’t know how good of a fit he is with ESPN given his depth of knowledge outside the NHL.

 

[Schooner Guy]

Not everyone likes to broadcast their unemployment. And if he was informed after the draft broadcast was done that Friday night (and he likely wouldn’t be informed prior to the broadcast) why stick around and do essentially free work for a final broadcast. I would hop on a red eye to get back to my family too.

Contracts probably go through June 30, so the draft Friday June 28 was likely his last assignment under it.

I'm sure he was informed on a Friday night in Vegas right after the 1st round with everyone in a festive mood that he was being terminated. Come on now.

 

[Taswell]

Just give me my MvsW podcast back.

 

[H3ckt1k]

Pierre "No personal space" McGuire, what every lad dreams of when being drafted, a creepy old wanker sitting right up against you asking about the thickness of your legs while his hot coffee breath hits you in waves.

Pierre definitely stole your girl

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Pierre definitely stole your girl

Weird comment, if anything Pierre would try to get uncomfortably close to me, not my wife.

 

[Sombastate]

Appears as though the Flyers drafting Luchanko 13th overall also broke him. I can't blame him

 

[BLONG7]

Some of his prospect interviews were terrible. Not really going to miss him.

Not a fan either...........see ya later Jeff

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Elliotte needs to be more transparent.

He's said absolutely nothing and left everyone in the dark over why his popular podcast stopped.

He's going to continue it with someone else most likely, but he should've released a statement like a few days later saying "Jeff has left the podcast, we are working on figuring out what comes next, please stay tuned" or something, and everyone would've taken it in stride.

The mystery and acting as if everyone should ignore the obvious abnormality that they literally stopped the podcast for no apparent reason with no explanation is weird.

 

[EpochLink]

Pierre "No personal space" McGuire, what every lad dreams of when being drafted, a creepy old wanker sitting right up against you asking about the thickness of your legs while his hot coffee breath hits you in waves.

Now now, Pierre must’ve drank 3 cups of coffee before shouting ‘it’s a double Dion!!’

 

[Jee]

is it still speculation ? thought it was confirmed by SN

 

[Ace]

We’ll know it was for something really bad if the Oilers hire him

 

[ItWasJustified]

Steve Dangle is actually pretty good, if you actually listen to him outside of his Leafs rants where he goes into character. And it's obvious that you don't.

"Leafs homer", well yeah. He literally got famous for being a ranting Leafs fan.

No he's not. Him and mutual admiration club are everything that is wrong with hockey media. The worst thing that can happen if you're listening to a hockey podcast is if anyone name drops someone from Steve D*ngle's podcast thinking that everyone knows who the hell that is.

 

[digmor crusher]

Just another Leaf cheerleader gone, not a big loss, besides, I've never watched a podcast in my life and never intend to do so.

 

[EpochLink]

No he's not. Him and mutual admiration club are everything that is wrong with hockey media. The worst thing that can happen if you're listening to a hockey podcast is if anyone name drops someone from Steve D*ngle's podcast thinking that everyone knows who the hell that is.

I think years have caught up to Dangle, guy looks stressed and tired. He needs to focus on his health.

 

[H3ckt1k]

Weird comment, if anything Pierre would try to get uncomfortably close to me, not my wife.

This Pierre slander will not stand

 

[GKJ]

Elliotte needs to be more transparent.

He's said absolutely nothing and left everyone in the dark over why his popular podcast stopped.

He's going to continue it with someone else most likely, but he should've released a statement like a few days later saying "Jeff has left the podcast, we are working on figuring out what comes next, please stay tuned" or something, and everyone would've taken it in stride.

The mystery and acting as if everyone should ignore the obvious abnormality that they literally stopped the podcast for no apparent reason with no explanation is weird.

Knowing whatever we know of Elliotte, he will wait for Jeff to say his peace.

 

[Peasy]

I think years have caught up to Dangle, guy looks stressed and tired. He needs to focus on his health.

He seems to really hate the leafs right now, but hes made it his life/career so can never get a break.