John Kelly out

[11WSChamps]

It’s hilarious all the threads started the last few years complaining about Pang, Rivers or even Kelly’s little sayings, whether it was the thank you thank you thank you or un-bee-lievable but now that they’re all gone it’s the end of days!

Just relax and watch the game.

Yep. There would be multiple every single year complaining about how they were homers and their excitement was fake etc etc.

I get it though everyone wants change until change happens.

What I found funny is people are bringing up (on X) how awful it was to let Ken Wilson go and I'm going, Ummmmm do you know why he was fired and who replaced him?

They do not.

I didn't want change so you're wrong.

Kerbs is awful.

Did I say you specifically did?

You did say everyone.

[11WSChamps]

It’s hilarious all the threads started the last few years complaining about Pang, Rivers or even Kelly’s little sayings, whether it was the thank you thank you thank you or un-bee-lievable but now that they’re all gone it’s the end of days!

Just relax and watch the game.

Yep. There would be multiple every single year complaining about how they were homers and their excitement was fake etc etc.

I get it though everyone wants change until change happens.

What I found funny is people are bringing up (on X) how awful it was to let Ken Wilson go and I'm going, Ummmmm do you know why he was fired and who replaced him?

They do not.

I didn't want change so you're wrong.

Kerbs is awful.

Maybe not you, but given the number of pages those threads got, and the number here, there’s definitely some overlap.

Kerbs is just fine as well

I guess he is if you don't care what's happening on the ice.

[TheJackBurton]

It’s hilarious all the threads started the last few years complaining about Pang, Rivers or even Kelly’s little sayings, whether it was the thank you thank you thank you or un-bee-lievable but now that they’re all gone it’s the end of days!

Just relax and watch the game.

Yep. There would be multiple every single year complaining about how they were homers and their excitement was fake etc etc.

I get it though everyone wants change until change happens.

What I found funny is people are bringing up (on X) how awful it was to let Ken Wilson go and I'm going, Ummmmm do you know why he was fired and who replaced him?

They do not.

I didn't want change so you're wrong.

Kerbs is awful.

Did I say you specifically did?

You did say everyone.

yes the rhetorical everyone, not any single person specifically. There is a difference.

[TAFKAP]

It’s hilarious all the threads started the last few years complaining about Pang, Rivers or even Kelly’s little sayings, whether it was the thank you thank you thank you or un-bee-lievable but now that they’re all gone it’s the end of days!

Just relax and watch the game.

Yep. There would be multiple every single year complaining about how they were homers and their excitement was fake etc etc.

I get it though everyone wants change until change happens.

What I found funny is people are bringing up (on X) how awful it was to let Ken Wilson go and I'm going, Ummmmm do you know why he was fired and who replaced him?

They do not.

Not to digress too much, but while Wilson was indeed pretty good in the beginning, by the end he was a parody of himself and all the oh baby’s felt forced like he had a quota he had to hit

Never felt that. If I remember right, he did not just use it for goals only and so I think maybe folks thought it was used too often. But I liked it and I thought it was a very good trademark call for him unlike so many other broadcaster duds out there.

I mean to this day 60 years later I can hear Harry now...." There's a drive......waaaaaay back......it might be outta here....it could be.......it is!! .... a home run!

Some of it is generational. If you learned hockey from Dan Kelly, Wilson was a clown. If you learned hockey from Ken Wilson, Wilson is the OG. I mean, I wasn't even a fan then, but to me the Monday Night Miracle is Ken Wilsons call. Wickenheiser SCORES!!!! DOUG WICKENHEISER!!!! I loved it when they brought out the 90's throwback jersey's they got him to do the commercial for them. I wish I could find it on YouTube, it felt like an old KPLR broadcast.

I appreciate that Wilson is your guy. I have no problem with that. But Kelly's plaudits are not generational. He is considered objectively one of the greatest of all-time, if not THE greatest by hockey historians and fans. Like Vin Scully in baseball or Buck, Red Barber, or Caray in his prime. Hewitt or Gallivan would be the other two competitors on that list. Ken Wilson, as good as he was, is nowhere on any greatest hockey broadcasters list.

You do have a problem with it, because you're putting words in my mouth. I never said Ken Wilson was an all time great. I'm 53 and started following the Blues in 1990. There's thousands of fans that are like me, that didn't hear DK. Have no connection. Dan Kelly is a Hall of Famer and listed as one of the best hockey broadcasters in history. Cool, I don't care. I could listen to a collection of his calls and it would mean nothing to me because I wasn't there. I don't know those players, and I don't have the memories of where I was when I heard Dan Kelly's dulcet tones tell me all about it. I can (and have) listened to the collection of Ken Wilson calls on YouTube and it does move me. I know right where I was when he called those games. I was emotionally invested in those players and those seasons. I would never say Wilson was better than Kelly, I'm saying Ken Wilson's voice is the voice of Blues hockey TO ME. Dan Kelly is just a dude.

[TAFKAP]

Little background. I've been here since the Blues game one, so I'm older, yes. I was also taught NHL Blues hockey by Dan Kelly. If you weren't around then, you just didn't happen to be one of us lucky ones. But obviously that is just my opinion. This part isn't. I don't mind if anyone feels differently than I do. It's all cool with me. I liked John Kelly. I liked Panger. I was OK with the broadcasting before this change. As a matter of fact, I'll be checking and listening everywhere logical to see if John Kelly will be broadcasting anywhere else. I won't miss one minute of Blues hockey in the process, I'll see and hear it all. If anyone or everyone here at the Asylum chooses differently, it won't upset me in the least. We are St. Louis Blues die-hard fans. We are all together in that. (Obviously I'm not talking about those idiots who troll and try to pretend to get in the way).
Thank you very much. LGB.

You are not alone. I became a hockey fan listening to Dan Kelly. Not only was he the best Blues announcer, he was the best announcer in The NHL during that era and is considered one of the best hockey announcers ever. I probably listened to his call of Berenson's 6 goals vs the Flyers over 100 times. I don't idolize celebrities. They have specific talents that people are willing to pay money to see or hear. Otherwise, they are just people I don't personally know. But when Dan Kelly died, I felt like I lost a friend.

Dan Kelly had a way of raising the inflection in his voice as the play on the ice got tense, and then raising it some more, and the listener could just feel that something big was going to happen. This was extremely important for radio which was the primary medium in the 60s/70s. He had tremendous enthusiasm for the broadcasts and the game of hockey. You could tell he loved it.

Dan Kelly was so good at this that I would rather be older but have experienced Dan Kelly than be younger and insisting it's not that important. Dan Kelly was the best I ever heard.

Ok, cool. Insane, but cool. I'd never give up the life I have, to listen to a guy calling a hockey game.

[seattleblue]

Little background. I've been here since the Blues game one, so I'm older, yes. I was also taught NHL Blues hockey by Dan Kelly. If you weren't around then, you just didn't happen to be one of us lucky ones. But obviously that is just my opinion. This part isn't. I don't mind if anyone feels differently than I do. It's all cool with me. I liked John Kelly. I liked Panger. I was OK with the broadcasting before this change. As a matter of fact, I'll be checking and listening everywhere logical to see if John Kelly will be broadcasting anywhere else. I won't miss one minute of Blues hockey in the process, I'll see and hear it all. If anyone or everyone here at the Asylum chooses differently, it won't upset me in the least. We are St. Louis Blues die-hard fans. We are all together in that. (Obviously I'm not talking about those idiots who troll and try to pretend to get in the way).
Thank you very much. LGB.

You are not alone. I became a hockey fan listening to Dan Kelly. Not only was he the best Blues announcer, he was the best announcer in The NHL during that era and is considered one of the best hockey announcers ever. I probably listened to his call of Berenson's 6 goals vs the Flyers over 100 times. I don't idolize celebrities. They have specific talents that people are willing to pay money to see or hear. Otherwise, they are just people I don't personally know. But when Dan Kelly died, I felt like I lost a friend.

Dan Kelly had a way of raising the inflection in his voice as the play on the ice got tense, and then raising it some more, and the listener could just feel that something big was going to happen. This was extremely important for radio which was the primary medium in the 60s/70s. He had tremendous enthusiasm for the broadcasts and the game of hockey. You could tell he loved it.

Dan Kelly was so good at this that I would rather be older but have experienced Dan Kelly than be younger and insisting it's not that important. Dan Kelly was the best I ever heard.

Ok, cool. Insane, but cool. I'd never give up the life I have, to listen to a guy calling a hockey game.

lol, my friend, well look if could be *permanently* in my 40s and give up Dan Kelly, ask me again.

it's just that, you will get old too but Kellyless. I am trying to underscore how profoundly great at painting a picture of thrilling live competitive action this man was. He did it with inflection and words, it was absolute artistry and it is the biggest reason I am a Blues fan today and put so much passion in it. I got it from Dan Kelly's voice and those who heard him understand what I am talking about. I am not even the oldest fan, my first game was in the 75-76 season when I was 4. But he had the deepest sense of when to just let the crowd noise speak for him. He had all the words for all the moments and it was like watching David Gilmour play Comfortably Numb at Pulse. There's just nothing like the quality of it.

[Aesa]

Little background. I've been here since the Blues game one, so I'm older, yes. I was also taught NHL Blues hockey by Dan Kelly. If you weren't around then, you just didn't happen to be one of us lucky ones. But obviously that is just my opinion. This part isn't. I don't mind if anyone feels differently than I do. It's all cool with me. I liked John Kelly. I liked Panger. I was OK with the broadcasting before this change. As a matter of fact, I'll be checking and listening everywhere logical to see if John Kelly will be broadcasting anywhere else. I won't miss one minute of Blues hockey in the process, I'll see and hear it all. If anyone or everyone here at the Asylum chooses differently, it won't upset me in the least. We are St. Louis Blues die-hard fans. We are all together in that. (Obviously I'm not talking about those idiots who troll and try to pretend to get in the way).
Thank you very much. LGB.

You are not alone. I became a hockey fan listening to Dan Kelly. Not only was he the best Blues announcer, he was the best announcer in The NHL during that era and is considered one of the best hockey announcers ever. I probably listened to his call of Berenson's 6 goals vs the Flyers over 100 times. I don't idolize celebrities. They have specific talents that people are willing to pay money to see or hear. Otherwise, they are just people I don't personally know. But when Dan Kelly died, I felt like I lost a friend.

Dan Kelly had a way of raising the inflection in his voice as the play on the ice got tense, and then raising it some more, and the listener could just feel that something big was going to happen. This was extremely important for radio which was the primary medium in the 60s/70s. He had tremendous enthusiasm for the broadcasts and the game of hockey. You could tell he loved it.

Dan Kelly was so good at this that I would rather be older but have experienced Dan Kelly than be younger and insisting it's not that important. Dan Kelly was the best I ever heard.

Ok, cool. Insane, but cool. I'd never give up the life I have, to listen to a guy calling a hockey game.

lol, my friend, well look if could be *permanently* in my 40s and give up Dan Kelly, ask me again.

it's just that, you will get old too but Kellyless. I am trying to underscore how profoundly great at painting a picture of thrilling live competitive action this man was. He did it with inflection and words, it was absolute artistry and it is the biggest reason I am a Blues fan today and put so much passion in it. I got it from Dan Kelly's voice and those who heard him understand what I am talking about. I am not even the oldest fan, my first game was in the 75-76 season when I was 4. But he had the deepest sense of when to just let the crowd noise speak for him. He had all the words for all the moments and it was like watching David Gilmour play Comfortably Numb at Pulse. There's just nothing like the quality of it.

Exceptionally apt musical reference.

[esp31]

It’s hilarious all the threads started the last few years complaining about Pang, Rivers or even Kelly’s little sayings, whether it was the thank you thank you thank you or un-bee-lievable but now that they’re all gone it’s the end of days!

Just relax and watch the game.

Yep. There would be multiple every single year complaining about how they were homers and their excitement was fake etc etc.

I get it though everyone wants change until change happens.

What I found funny is people are bringing up (on X) how awful it was to let Ken Wilson go and I'm going, Ummmmm do you know why he was fired and who replaced him?

They do not.

Not to digress too much, but while Wilson was indeed pretty good in the beginning, by the end he was a parody of himself and all the oh baby’s felt forced like he had a quota he had to hit

Never felt that. If I remember right, he did not just use it for goals only and so I think maybe folks thought it was used too often. But I liked it and I thought it was a very good trademark call for him unlike so many other broadcaster duds out there.

I mean to this day 60 years later I can hear Harry now...." There's a drive......waaaaaay back......it might be outta here....it could be.......it is!! .... a home run!

Some of it is generational. If you learned hockey from Dan Kelly, Wilson was a clown. If you learned hockey from Ken Wilson, Wilson is the OG. I mean, I wasn't even a fan then, but to me the Monday Night Miracle is Ken Wilsons call. Wickenheiser SCORES!!!! DOUG WICKENHEISER!!!! I loved it when they brought out the 90's throwback jersey's they got him to do the commercial for them. I wish I could find it on YouTube, it felt like an old KPLR broadcast.

I appreciate that Wilson is your guy. I have no problem with that. But Kelly's plaudits are not generational. He is considered objectively one of the greatest of all-time, if not THE greatest by hockey historians and fans. Like Vin Scully in baseball or Buck, Red Barber, or Caray in his prime. Hewitt or Gallivan would be the other two competitors on that list. Ken Wilson, as good as he was, is nowhere on any greatest hockey broadcasters list.

You do have a problem with it, because you're putting words in my mouth. I never said Ken Wilson was an all time great. I'm 53 and started following the Blues in 1990. There's thousands of fans that are like me, that didn't hear DK. Have no connection. Dan Kelly is a Hall of Famer and listed as one of the best hockey broadcasters in history. Cool, I don't care. I could listen to a collection of his calls and it would mean nothing to me because I wasn't there. I don't know those players, and I don't have the memories of where I was when I heard Dan Kelly's dulcet tones tell me all about it. I can (and have) listened to the collection of Ken Wilson calls on YouTube and it does move me. I know right where I was when he called those games. I was emotionally invested in those players and those seasons. I would never say Wilson was better than Kelly, I'm saying Ken Wilson's voice is the voice of Blues hockey TO ME. Dan Kelly is just a dude.

It's no big deal. I didn't quote you, didn't put words in your mouth, and don't have a problem with it. I was simply responding to your comment on it being generational, and I was explaining that it was more than that. I don't think it warrants further comment. It's no big deal. I liked Wilson as well. I'm only a few years older than you, but I started going to and listening to games in '70, but again, myself and other posters were just explaining how objectively great DK was. He's nothing to you. Cool! No big deal.

[seattleblue]

Little background. I've been here since the Blues game one, so I'm older, yes. I was also taught NHL Blues hockey by Dan Kelly. If you weren't around then, you just didn't happen to be one of us lucky ones. But obviously that is just my opinion. This part isn't. I don't mind if anyone feels differently than I do. It's all cool with me. I liked John Kelly. I liked Panger. I was OK with the broadcasting before this change. As a matter of fact, I'll be checking and listening everywhere logical to see if John Kelly will be broadcasting anywhere else. I won't miss one minute of Blues hockey in the process, I'll see and hear it all. If anyone or everyone here at the Asylum chooses differently, it won't upset me in the least. We are St. Louis Blues die-hard fans. We are all together in that. (Obviously I'm not talking about those idiots who troll and try to pretend to get in the way).
Thank you very much. LGB.

You are not alone. I became a hockey fan listening to Dan Kelly. Not only was he the best Blues announcer, he was the best announcer in The NHL during that era and is considered one of the best hockey announcers ever. I probably listened to his call of Berenson's 6 goals vs the Flyers over 100 times. I don't idolize celebrities. They have specific talents that people are willing to pay money to see or hear. Otherwise, they are just people I don't personally know. But when Dan Kelly died, I felt like I lost a friend.

Dan Kelly had a way of raising the inflection in his voice as the play on the ice got tense, and then raising it some more, and the listener could just feel that something big was going to happen. This was extremely important for radio which was the primary medium in the 60s/70s. He had tremendous enthusiasm for the broadcasts and the game of hockey. You could tell he loved it.

Dan Kelly was so good at this that I would rather be older but have experienced Dan Kelly than be younger and insisting it's not that important. Dan Kelly was the best I ever heard.

Ok, cool. Insane, but cool. I'd never give up the life I have, to listen to a guy calling a hockey game.

lol, my friend, well look if could be *permanently* in my 40s and give up Dan Kelly, ask me again.

it's just that, you will get old too but Kellyless. I am trying to underscore how profoundly great at painting a picture of thrilling live competitive action this man was. He did it with inflection and words, it was absolute artistry and it is the biggest reason I am a Blues fan today and put so much passion in it. I got it from Dan Kelly's voice and those who heard him understand what I am talking about. I am not even the oldest fan, my first game was in the 75-76 season when I was 4. But he had the deepest sense of when to just let the crowd noise speak for him. He had all the words for all the moments and it was like watching David Gilmour play Comfortably Numb at Pulse. There's just nothing like the quality of it.

Exceptionally apt musical reference.

I saw it in Foxoboro outside of Boston May 20, 1994 and again in Olympic Stadium in MTL May 22, 1994. There is something joyful about watching people who have never heard Pink Floyd before get transformed by that guitar solo on youtube reaction videos.

[Aesa]

Little background. I've been here since the Blues game one, so I'm older, yes. I was also taught NHL Blues hockey by Dan Kelly. If you weren't around then, you just didn't happen to be one of us lucky ones. But obviously that is just my opinion. This part isn't. I don't mind if anyone feels differently than I do. It's all cool with me. I liked John Kelly. I liked Panger. I was OK with the broadcasting before this change. As a matter of fact, I'll be checking and listening everywhere logical to see if John Kelly will be broadcasting anywhere else. I won't miss one minute of Blues hockey in the process, I'll see and hear it all. If anyone or everyone here at the Asylum chooses differently, it won't upset me in the least. We are St. Louis Blues die-hard fans. We are all together in that. (Obviously I'm not talking about those idiots who troll and try to pretend to get in the way).
Thank you very much. LGB.

You are not alone. I became a hockey fan listening to Dan Kelly. Not only was he the best Blues announcer, he was the best announcer in The NHL during that era and is considered one of the best hockey announcers ever. I probably listened to his call of Berenson's 6 goals vs the Flyers over 100 times. I don't idolize celebrities. They have specific talents that people are willing to pay money to see or hear. Otherwise, they are just people I don't personally know. But when Dan Kelly died, I felt like I lost a friend.

Dan Kelly had a way of raising the inflection in his voice as the play on the ice got tense, and then raising it some more, and the listener could just feel that something big was going to happen. This was extremely important for radio which was the primary medium in the 60s/70s. He had tremendous enthusiasm for the broadcasts and the game of hockey. You could tell he loved it.

Dan Kelly was so good at this that I would rather be older but have experienced Dan Kelly than be younger and insisting it's not that important. Dan Kelly was the best I ever heard.

Ok, cool. Insane, but cool. I'd never give up the life I have, to listen to a guy calling a hockey game.

lol, my friend, well look if could be *permanently* in my 40s and give up Dan Kelly, ask me again.

it's just that, you will get old too but Kellyless. I am trying to underscore how profoundly great at painting a picture of thrilling live competitive action this man was. He did it with inflection and words, it was absolute artistry and it is the biggest reason I am a Blues fan today and put so much passion in it. I got it from Dan Kelly's voice and those who heard him understand what I am talking about. I am not even the oldest fan, my first game was in the 75-76 season when I was 4. But he had the deepest sense of when to just let the crowd noise speak for him. He had all the words for all the moments and it was like watching David Gilmour play Comfortably Numb at Pulse. There's just nothing like the quality of it.

Exceptionally apt musical reference.

I saw it in Foxoboro outside of Boston May 20, 1994 and again in Olympic Stadium in MTL May 22, 1994. There is something joyful about watching people who have never heard Pink Floyd before get transformed by that guitar solo on youtube reaction videos.

I completely agree about those reaction videos. By his own admission, Gilmour never really had "fast fingers" but he played with more passion than any other guitar player I have ever heard. Wish I could have seen that tour live. One of the few I was unfortunate enough to have missed.

[Cahokanut]

This has been a bad Blues summer for me. Bolduc was a prospect I watched, liked and wanted, before his draft. And Kelly was another big part of the team that can't easily be replaced. No matter who had the contract on Kelly. Blues management okay'ed this.

Theirs no one is rather hear tell a game. Maybe not be the best, but was/is St. Louis. Will be sad hearing him on another team. Just hope it's one I can like.

John had that Kelly voice. The nostalgia of it. Meant something.

[BalotelliMassive]

(bullhorn powers on)

It has come to our attention that certain people here do not recognize the greatness of somebody that they didn't grow up listening to. This is an unforgivable sin. Please smoke one last cigarette and stand along the wall with all of the holes in it with a blindfold on. That you for cooperating.