After all, he's as familiar a voice as there is. Also, Jagr bids adieu to his country's locker room, and the Ducks ruined my series prediction again.
When Ralph Strangis announced his departure from the Dallas booth, there was no getting around the fact that he couldn't be replaced. The sheer history and length of Strangis's connection to the franchise is almost unparallelled in hockey, and even a Bob-Cole-in-his-prime voice wasn't going to bring the same sort of properly parochial panache and franchise-specific savoir faire that followed Ralph out the door to Venice Beach or wherever he chooses to spend the summer.