"We can't take a breath" - Bruins at Canes, Game 4 Preview

Brick is great. He is the best at breaking down what just happened and explaining it in a way that both diehard fans and casual sports fans can understand. You always end up learning something when you watch a game that Brick works.

He said it like 10 times throughout the broadcast. I think there was one point when he used it 3 times in about a 3 minute span. Almopst made me miss Tripp…………….almost.

I’m actually not a big Jack Edwards fan but I get why people like him. I think Brick is one of the best hockey color guys I have ever heard though.

My vote would be for Sutter… but that would never happen.

I would guess Ryan. His speed would really help the way we are trying to play right now, and he also isnt scared to hit anyone. Conboy would be nice, but this isnt the game for fighting.

Rumor is flu-like symptoms … imagine it’d be Conboy or Ryan in his place. I’ll see if I can find out.

99.9 saying it will be Conboy or Dwyer … I have an e-mail in to Canes PR to see if I can find out anything.

And suits up… Watch out! Some of the best personal performances by pro-sports athletes have happened while they had they flu. I don’t know what it is but man do they go into a zone. If Ryan Bayda plays tonight and has a fever, I’m looking for 2-3 points from him.

Shane Hnidy definitely isn’t the answer to the B’s puck-moving woes.

this is a good argument for conboy

because, in my opinion, he is not a very good color analyst. As I hinted at, he goes on too much about the minutae of goalie play and is prone to beat a dead horse. He also makes many ill fated attempts at humor. I didn’t attack him personally, in fact I mentioned that he does a lot of charitable type stuff (St. Baldricks’ etc), it’s just that he can be annoying, off-topic and verbose.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have spoken ill of him in this forum, but I did so with the assumption that the majority of folks would agree with me. Put it this way, although he rakes on my nerves (especially when the ’Canes are losing and starts kissing the other goalies butt), I would rather see him improve as an analyst than be replaced. And, I know that I would be much worse at it that him, but I have the luxury of being in the peanut gallery.

Tripp is like the parent who may know a lot of stuff but then goes and says things in front of your friends that make you want to hide in embarrassment. But at least Tripp is in 100% earnest and totally committed to knowing the game and the Canes personnel – which works in this market. Without the sophisitcated and silver-tongued Forslund, I think Tripp would be a disaster. They’re a little like Abbot and Costello.

However, please help me with this: does anyone remember sometime in Game 1 (or 2?) Canes vs Boston when Tripp told the story of his 10th birthday party at a Chuck E Cheese somewhere in Michigan. He invited Boston’s Vezina candidate, also only 10 at the time, little Timmy Thomas to his party. Then Tripp elaborated with a clarity that is almost troubling: there was some game that Timmy won at the party and it ruined Tripp’s birthday party and he still kinda holds it against Tim – even today! Was I the only person who heard that? I’m not sure if I found the story really funny or disturbing.

You just can’t make that stuff up.

One thing I hate is when he goes on about any goalie “making the right save at the right time.” I hate hearing that crap. To me, the right time to make a save is when the puck is shot at the net. The goalie’s are not timing their saves. They would like to save everything. I understand when it’s a big save and save’s the game that it seems to be timely. It just so happens that his job is to stop the puck and the puck came at that time in the game. Could it be that it was also a timely shot on goal? The “Brick” feller said the same thing the other night but at least he didn’t harp on it. Anyway…

Other than Tripp being obnoxious at times with his “inside knowledge” and his relentless saying “coming from a former goaltender,” I like him. I like most of his inside knowledge and I like his break downs of the game. He’s usually right on with what the Canes want to do with each team and I appreciate his hockey knowledge and how he conveys it. Probably not many color men do know the intricacies of goaltending and I appreciate his skill with that as well. It could be a lot worse as others are saying and he’s our goofball. The man went to Harvard, as he likes to remind everyone all the time, so he does have a brain. I wish I had his number so I could join the army of texters in his phone so I could sometimes text “move on,” “change the subject,” or “shuddup.”

that Tripp & John are usually spot on when speaking about the validity of calls or non-calls by the officiating, regardless of how it goes for or against the Canes. They are definitely way better than that New Jersey color guy/douche who went on about “Oh, that’s a blatant interference” when Marty Brodeur was a yard out of his crease and got bumped by Jussi prior to the .02 goal. Don’t get me wrong, Tripp annoys me, but I would miss him and feel bad if they got rid of him. He’s just like that goofy friend that most of us have who sometimes suffers from diharrea of the mouth and constipation of thought. :)