I have to say with full certainty that the Colorado Avalanche’s play-by-play announcers, first Mike Haynes and now Marc Moser, have been very good about keeping their comments clean and appropriate.
Their rival announcer, not so much. Recently, the Chicago Blackhawks were in Berlin for one of the NHL’s Global Series games. They played against the Eisbären Berlin hockey club.
Well, as often happens when a player is good enough to go pro but not quite NHL material — or not anymore — he goes to play in Europe. The Eisbären Berlin club happen to have a player from Escondido, California — which is just a couple hours away from Long Beach Native Matt Nieto’s hometown of, you guessed it, Long Beach.