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09-16-2007, 10:33 PM
Switzer's Blog
The online presence of radio personality Ryan Switzer
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Dominance!
This post is kind of a dollar short and a day late.
What a performance by the Broncos in Kindersley! 5-0 win over Regina. I have never seen such a dominating Bronco performance...ever. While I refuse to get too jacked over a pre-season game, one has to be optimistic about Swift pummeling the Pat's who had their A list forwards dressed. Pat's fans will argue that the absence of goalie Linden Rowat, and d-men Nick Ross and Logan Pyett were a factor. One has to keep in mind Swift scored five goals without Brady Leovold, Kyle Bortis and Levi Nelson, not to mention d-men Ryan Molle and Derek Claffey weren't dressed either.
Random thoughts:
-Everytime I think 18 year old Grant Toulmin may be a casualty of the talent/youth numbers, he scores a NICE goal.
-I LIKE our blueline. So much mobility tempered with Molle and Larochelle.
-Travis Yonkman did not allow a goal in the preseason. In Kindersley they should have charged him admission as he was a spectator.
-I kept getting Mike Brown and Brad Hoban mixed up. One wore 33 one wore 36, same size, both good.
-Wudrick/Stieler/Weise looked great together. So did Dalecky/Zack Smith and Justin Dowling. Both those lines looked like top lines. Matt Tassone played well too. Tassone has an edge this year we didn't see much of before.
-I enjoyed broadcasting in Kindersley. Lots of WHL broadcasters think they've outgrown rinks like that and say "never again". I think some of these divas who have grown used to catered media rooms and comprehensive stat packages owe it to themselves to call a game in that type of atmosphere. Doing play by play seated between the other teams broadcaster and the PA announcer. Sweet!
-I liked the fact that no one in Kinderlsey had heard my material before. When I said the classic "smooth as a bikini wax" it got a big laugh in the booth. It was nice working for an audience that hasn't heard my stuff for the last five years.
-One more shameless radio plug: The BEST THING YOU WILL HEAR ON WHL RADIO THIS YEAR IS THE BRONCOS 1ST PERIOD INTRO. It will play every game just before puck drop. Keen produced a beauty with the help of players from the roster.
The online presence of radio personality Ryan Switzer
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Dominance!
This post is kind of a dollar short and a day late.
What a performance by the Broncos in Kindersley! 5-0 win over Regina. I have never seen such a dominating Bronco performance...ever. While I refuse to get too jacked over a pre-season game, one has to be optimistic about Swift pummeling the Pat's who had their A list forwards dressed. Pat's fans will argue that the absence of goalie Linden Rowat, and d-men Nick Ross and Logan Pyett were a factor. One has to keep in mind Swift scored five goals without Brady Leovold, Kyle Bortis and Levi Nelson, not to mention d-men Ryan Molle and Derek Claffey weren't dressed either.
Random thoughts:
-Everytime I think 18 year old Grant Toulmin may be a casualty of the talent/youth numbers, he scores a NICE goal.
-I LIKE our blueline. So much mobility tempered with Molle and Larochelle.
-Travis Yonkman did not allow a goal in the preseason. In Kindersley they should have charged him admission as he was a spectator.
-I kept getting Mike Brown and Brad Hoban mixed up. One wore 33 one wore 36, same size, both good.
-Wudrick/Stieler/Weise looked great together. So did Dalecky/Zack Smith and Justin Dowling. Both those lines looked like top lines. Matt Tassone played well too. Tassone has an edge this year we didn't see much of before.
-I enjoyed broadcasting in Kindersley. Lots of WHL broadcasters think they've outgrown rinks like that and say "never again". I think some of these divas who have grown used to catered media rooms and comprehensive stat packages owe it to themselves to call a game in that type of atmosphere. Doing play by play seated between the other teams broadcaster and the PA announcer. Sweet!
-I liked the fact that no one in Kinderlsey had heard my material before. When I said the classic "smooth as a bikini wax" it got a big laugh in the booth. It was nice working for an audience that hasn't heard my stuff for the last five years.
-One more shameless radio plug: The BEST THING YOU WILL HEAR ON WHL RADIO THIS YEAR IS THE BRONCOS 1ST PERIOD INTRO. It will play every game just before puck drop. Keen produced a beauty with the help of players from the roster.