Giving NBC their Due
I was critical of the way the NBC broadcasting team handled their reporting on how Calgary reacted when their emotions got the best of them late in Game 5.
Calgary coach Jim Playfair removed Kiprusoff with about 3:00 left in the game. The NBC announcers hailed it as a brilliant move to protect Kiprusoff. Pierre McGuire bought what a frustrated Calgary bench was saying about Detroit running Kipper, which was complete nonsense.
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It became even more obvious what was going on when when the NBC broadcasters wondered what Jarome Iginla was still doing on the ice with the game clearly over.
I wasn’t around to see their broadcast during the New Jersey-Tampa Bay game earlier today but Paul Kukla transcribed some of their commentary and I am happy to read that they have changed their tune.
On the NBC pre-game chat, Brett Hull & Ray Ferraro pointed to the top of the Flames organization today. Both mentioned it was a classless display last night and called for the NHL to suspend those who deserve a suspension and also make the Flames open the checkbook. This type of play is not what the NHL wants and they need to let the Calgary Flames organization know that.
I give them credit for being critical of how Calgary acted late in the game. Steve Schrader from the Free Press has some direct quotes from the earlier game yesterday.
“This is ridiculous,” Hull said as they showed clips of the Flames behaving badly. “Leadership starts at the top, and this just shows a lack of class from the organization.”
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Anyway, the NBC guys also mocked the Flames’ alibi that they were just trying to boost their “energy level” heading into Game 6 back at Calgary.“I think he was just fired up,” Hull said of backup goalie Jamie McLennan’s two-hander at Johan Franzen. “I don’t think he meant to slash him.”
Ferraro: “Well, he slashed him three times. So I think at somewhere along the line Jamie McLennan lost a screw there.”
Hull: “I think they’ve all lost their minds.”
No, they didn’t lose their minds; it was just very poor sportsmanship on behalf of Jarome Iginla and his team.
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