Morning skate (10/25) update

Great to hear that Johnson is playing tonight. He is proving to be a stable player on the blue line.

Yo Rich,

What time do the morning skates usually start? Always the day before a game?

I think you need to ask Cammi what he thinks of Patrick O'Neal. Did anyone get a load of that 1st period intermission interview?????

Deelo,

I missed the 1st intermission interview. Can you elaborate on what happened?

Morning skates are almost always at 10:30 a.m. in El Segundo. Non-game-day practices can vary in time but they're usually 11 a.m.

Cammalleri was a little pissy in general that day. He was dealing with some issues with cuts on the inside of his mouth. He got irritated with Patrick's question about ``being in the right place at the right time'' for scoring goals. It probably wasn't the best question, but usually players get the implication and answer the question anyway. Heaven knows I've asked my share of bad questions.

It seems like Cammy didn't take much of an offense from that question to me. He was laughing about it. Patrick O'Neal did call him on that 10th goal and he got it.

i would be pretty annoyed to if someone was basically saying i was lucky to get the goals i got, however i thought cammy played it off fairly well but you could tell he was annoyed

Well, first he said since he got to 9 goals so fast that maybe he has been opportunistic and was in the rigth place and the right time. To which Cammy replied that he would like to think it was a little bit more than being just opportunistic.

Then he pulled out that ridiculously dumb stat about scoring another goal to keep pace with 10 goals in 10 games. You really had to hear the way he said it to fully appreciate how dumb and clueless he sounded.
Cammi replied to that with an "I don't like you now."

He did end up scoring the goal though.

I like how Ivanans brushed him off when he did that bench interview too. He just doesn't have a clue what he is talking about and it is pretty funny that FSN continues to let this guy give interviews.

I assure you people watching the feed on Center Ice are just sitting there thinking, "No wonder the west coast isn't taken seriously with these clueless reporters."

I remember that doofus talking to Ivanans! I didn't catch the name at the time.

I watch the Kings on Center Ice, and while guys like o'neal seem green and ignorant to the game of hockey, you have a guy like Jim Fox who's one of the best in the biz when it comes to breaking down the game.

I absolutely agree. Bob Miller and Jim Fox are second to none and are definitely one of the top 3 tandems in the league...if not the best.

Just listen to a nashville feed and Terry Crisp and you will definitely appreciate what we have.

One that has always stuck out to me was a game last year late in the season where one of the Preds got called for slashing because he broke the oppposing players stick. Crisp must have went on about 5 minutes about how this must be a rule change and was appalled that they could actually call it in a game.

I was just sitting there thinking, they have been calling that for 2 years now Crispee, you don't even need to break the guys stick anymore.

Players are getting pretty good at dropping their sticks when the opposition gives it a good whack, and it has been called.

we are def. lucky to have jim and bob, ive been watching other teams on center ice and i cant believe how horrible and one sided most announcers are.

definitely agree about jim and bob. my appreciation for their work doubled when i was forced to watch heyward do a kings-ducks game... could he be any more of a homer?

definitely the most underrated announcing team, if not the best... i hear dallas' announcers praised a lot along with philly's or buffalo's (i forget which), but we've got an excellent pair in LA.

I caught the Dallas feed on Center Ice for the last game that they played. Their announcers were so into Turco that you would have thought that the man was the second coming. The local San Jose homers up here in the Bay Area do the same thing with Joe Thornton (and Cheechoo, to a lesser extent).

Bob and Jim are simply the best. They can call an exciting game for either side without sounding like biased homers - something lacking in most other announcers.

Even when #99 was playing for the Kings I never heard Bob talk him up the way that some of these clowns do now with their stars.

Bob and Jim are definitely up there. I love Hughson up in Canada...but he's really the only tolerable guy on any of the networks. Glen Healy might be the worst commentator in the game.

Pittsburgh's aren't bad, though they're not great either. Carolina's tandem doesn't bug me. Joe Beninati with the Capitals (and Versus) is great, but his CC sucks. the MSG guys in NY are okay, not great. I like Rick Jeanerette in Buffalo, but he's definitely an acquired taste. and really i like him because he's almost an oblivious parody of everything that's wrong with broadcasting in sports. I'll take Bob and Jim any day. Even with O'Neal and Tom Murray and whoever else they can get to give bad interviews.

bOB IS A HALL OF FAMER, THE BEST AT PLAY BY PLAY SOUTH OF CALGARY'S RADIO GUY, PETER MAHER, AND FOXEY GIVES GREAT INSIGHT, THOUGH SOMETIMES I FEEL THEY DUMB DOWN THEIR COMMENTARRY FOR US LEFT COASTERS. BUT PULEEZE PULL THE PLUG ON RYAN O'NEALS KID, HAD HE EVER SEEN A HOCKEY GAME BEFORE HE LUCKED INTO THIS GIG?