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Saturday, January 31, 2004

A terrible trio 

For tonight's Ottawa-Toronto matchup, CBC decided to switch up the usual team of Bob (Cole) & (Harry) Neale. The new crew consisted of Chris Cuthbert on play by play, Neale on colour (of blue) commentary and Glen Healy on the newly created position of ignorant Leaf homer. After listening to the game tonight, even Sens fans are longing for the days of Bob and Neale alone.

Neale and Healy were brutal. Whoever decided to pair these two up on a national broadcast should be tortured in the most painful manner possible. It was impossible to judge Cuthbert's call because he barely got a chance to do his job. Cuthbert got stuck with twin boat anchors on the broadcast.

It seemed like Neale and Healy were having a love in to decide who could be crowned the president of the Maple Leafs booster club. They would ramble on for minutes while the play was on about nothing of any interest. Healy would try and crack jokes which were as funny as a funeral.

Neale and Healy appeared to be watching a completely different game then the one that the CBC was showing. After Marian Hossa was blatantly elbowed in the face by Brian McCabe to the extent that Hossa had a bright red mark the size of an elbow on his face, Neale stated while watching the replay that, "McCabe might have gotten the elbow up".

Neale started off the night talking about the "Battle of Alberta" and stayed at that level of consistancy the rest of the night. He declared that Lalime had better stats in the regular season then the playoffs even though Lalime has a better career goals against average, save percentage and winning percentage in the playoffs then he does in the regular season.

If Glen Healy was never heard from again, it would be too soon.

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