Mike Emrick to Miss Winter Classic

January 1st, 2009 | Posted in Uncategorized |

Hall of Fame broadcaster “Doc” Emrick will be unable to call Thursday’s Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic due to laryngitis. Dave Strader, who is the play-by-play voice of the Phoenix Coyotes and has also worked for NBC Sports, will fill in for Emrick.

“Last year’s game was a lifetime memory and I couldn’t wait to call this year’s game at Wrigely,” said Emrick. “I’m extremely disappointed but I know Dave will do a wonderful job.”

To this, I say THANK GOD.

Mike Emrick is easily the worst hockey announcer ever. He’s like hockey’s equivalent of Joe Buck. How these two clowns reached the top of their profession is beyond me, but if I had to rank all of the NHL’s announcers, Emrick would be in the bottom five.

Yes, I think the Bruins’ Jack Edwards is better. Because he IS!

So it was very exciting to here the news about Emrick. Strader’s not exactly one of my favorites either, but he’s a definite improvement — he will make it listenable this year…