Hockey Night in Canada gets Milbury in Milbury-esque trade
DURR
There hasn’t been a trade this lopsided since Mike Milbury was allowed to be an NHL general manager.
To TSN: The Hockey Night in Canada theme
To HNIC: Mike Milbury
It’s like Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha for Roberto Luongo and Olli Jokinen, only this time it hurts all hockey fans, not just those on Long Island.
The CBC, in its infinite wisdom, has really gone out of its way to tank the network’s signature broadcast in the past few months. They let the awesome Hockey Night in Canada theme go and pick up possibly the worst analyst in broadcast sports.
If I’m not mistaken, this is Milbury’s fourth network in two-ish seasons, having been booted from NESN, NBC, and TSN. The thing he’ll always be most famous for, in broadcasting at least, is almost getting into a fistfight with Pierre Maguire over the value teams were getting on certain players’ contracts during this last Free Agent Day. In the wake of Chicago signing Cristobal Huet, Milbury, not surprisingly was arguing for madness (i.e. Chicago paying $12-plus million for its goaltending), while Maguire thought that it would be wise for Dale Tallon to perhaps do everything in his power to get rid of one of the team’s overpaid, mediocre netminders.
That said, he should fit right in with those clods on Satellite Hot Stove (with all due respect to Eric Duhatshek).
At this rate, HNIC is becoming such a joke that they might as well pick “Hockey Scores” as the theme song.
