With the incredible talent pool of hockey players developed in Canada, you’d think we could also produce a few more quality broadcasters. Mark Lee and Kevin Weekes? Terrible! Their coverage of the Calgary at Vancouver CBC game last night was pathetic. Was Mark Lee trying to bore us to death? If so, it worked in spectacular fashion. It was so bad that early in the second period I switched over to channel 326, where CBC was broadcasting the game in Punjabi. I have no idea what these dudes were saying but it was far more exciting listening to them than having to endure Lee’s monotone voice and Weekes’ stale observations, obviously funneled into his ear from a producer. Thanks for letting us know Calgary lost 6-0 to Minnesota last week Kevin. By the way, you mentioned it already, six times in the last ten minutes in fact. Focus on the game at hand please!
Basically, if it isn’t Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson calling the game then it’s crap, total crap. They can get on my nerves too, but for different reasons. Sure, Hughson and Simpson have the ability to call a great game, if they choose to just call the game. It’s just that both have a bad habit of yacking on like it’s intermission while the play is going on. I’ll leave them alone for another day though. For now, I just want to thank CBC, Lee, and Weekes for ruining my Hockey Night in Canada yet again.
