Letters to the Editor, June 20, 2025

Published Jun 20, 2025 • Last updated Jun 20, 2025 • 1 minute read

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DISAPPEARING ACT

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Re “The mystery of Marner” (Steve Simmons, June 18): There is no mystery. It is not his personality, character, size, attitude or behaviour. It is about production on the ice in the playoffs. Check the stats for the past eight years including Game 7s. You will be horrified. It is actually the Marner Matthews Mystery. Those two guys are the true mystery. Without Marner on the team, it will be misery for Matthews next year. No mystery here, the case is solved. They do not produce when they are needed most. Nothing more, nothing less.

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TUNED OUT

Rob Longley, great Airwaves column June 19, outstanding analysis of the HNIC panel, as Tiger Williams once said, “Done like dinner.” To be 100% honest, when the game goes to intermission, I like many go to another channel, or as I did in the playoffs, at intermission, I change the channel to the TNT panel. Ron MacLean is long past his expiry date, and his attempt at humour, weak at best, and as Longley stated, no slight on Jennifer Botterill but she doesn’t bring style or realistic analysis to the table. The entire panel doesn’t need to be blown up, but they definitely need to make better use of the elements that work: Kelly Hrudey, Kevin Bieksa, and Elliotte Friedman. This is live sports, the fastest game, critical plays, real-time evaluation, and analysis are required, not some less-than-witty song introductions. There are fantastic examples of sports panels out there, and HNIC is definitely not one of them. As the song says, the times they are a-changing.

Michael McNutt
Mississauga

(Every team needs a roster shake-up when the team underperforms and TV is no different)

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