as for Harry Neale and friends, or as they're tagged outside Laff Nation, Toronto's bandwagon broadcasters or the like. It's a running joke when your'e watching Laff games, and especially Toronto-Ottawa games, that these guys have insane man-love for the Leafs. LIke cripes get a radio gig in Toronto and let soemoen that knows what they're doing have your job; preferably someone without the extreme bias.
Sicne this is CBC, that's not happening. They known where their bread is buttered and it's in Toronto. Sad really, beause they have good announcers, they're just usually supplanted by these dinasours that think it's still 1967 or something.
Used to be that when watching hockey, you'd grab the Canadian audio, and slap it on say ESPN or NBC or what not for the video as it was immensely superior. True HDTV and hockey is just superb, compared to what that fuzz-o-vision is that CBC pumped out. If it's changed it'd be nice, but since CBC is funded by the government (last I checked), change is slow
Sad, because I really like HNIC other than the crappy main annoucers and the first period old married couple argumentfest(aka Don Cherry looking like a bad used car salesmen and about to have a heart attack).
Sigh....