36LikesI will say that even though he gets a lot of hate, I love Pierre McGuire.
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what i want is all Razor doing color all the time.
wasn't Hazy an in part fill-in for Engblom because he was under the weather? i thought i read that. i mean i know Engbloom was there, but it just seemed like Hayward had way more mic time in the McGuire slot than usual... almost like they split color duty.Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti
Well...you hate my beloved Doc but you love Pierre 'is that Crosby's pube in my teeth' Maguire. I get how Doc can be grating to folks, but at least he is pretty impartial. Maguire FAWNS over certain players and is entirely unprofessional. Kind of invalidates your opinion.
Are you aware that Pierre's job is to add colo(u)r to the game and not be an impartial robot? His opinions, agree with them or not, are generally knowledgable. He obviously goes over the top sometimes, but that's life. Find me a colour guy who doesn't do it.
He can be aggravating but he is generally entertaining and that's kind of the point of his job.
Yes, your point about color vs calling the game is valid...where we disagree is on Maguire's aggravating to entertaining ratio. In my opinion he comes off as an unapologetic fanboy of certain players to the point of working them into the conversation when they aren't even playing. It's like he could be interviewing...let's use Luongo(since that is your team)...here's a hypothetical sample,
Maguire: 'Good game so far Loo, you really weathered the storm in that second period'
Luongo: 'Yeah, the Coyotes really came at us hard and a few of those shots I didn't even get to see...'
Maguire: 'yeah, so what do you think Sidney Crosby is doing for mother's day?'
It's an over the top example...but not ridiculously so.
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