Will do rest of games on radio, no announcement as to who is #2 radio voice.  

JOHN SHORTHOUSE NAMED NEW VOICE OF VANCOUVER CANUCKS
ON SPORTSNET PACIFIC



Begins 11th year as Canucks broadcaster

VANCOUVER (June 3, 2008) - John Shorthouse has been named the new play-by-play voice of the Vancouver Canucks on Sportsnet Pacific.

The Canucks radio announcer brings a wealth of experience to the television broadcast booth having called Vancouver games since 1998.

"I'm excited to be entering this new chapter in my career," said Shorthouse. "Anyone familiar with me knows calling Canucks hockey has meant the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. I'm honoured to have been afforded the opportunity to continue - and to add to - Sportsnet's first-class Canucks coverage."

Shorthouse joins analyst and former Canucks stopper John Garrett in the broadcast booth. Dan Murphy rounds-out the broadcast team as host of Canucks Hockey on Sportsnet Pacific in 2008-2009.

"John's passion and experience cannot be questioned," said Rick Briggs-Jude, Vice-President Production, Rogers Sportsnet. "He's a professional whose credentials make him the perfect fit to be the next voice of the Vancouver Canucks on Sportsnet Pacific."

A graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Shorthouse began his broadcasting career in 1993 as one of the anchors of the popular Global Vancouver program, Sports Page. In 1998, with the creation of CTV Sportsnet, John began calling the play-by-play of the Canucks, sharing his duties with Jim Robson.

At the start of the 1999-2000 season, Shorthouse became the full-time radio voice of the Canucks. John, along with his wife Christina, their son William, daughter Maggie and dog Moses live in Vancouver.

For all the scores, highlights, breaking news and inside stories from the Vancouver Canucks and the entire NHL tune into Hockeycentral, Sportsnet Connected and log on to sportsnet.ca. "Sports. Vancouver style."


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Larscheid I guess won't be back

Good for Shorty!

As bad as The Canucks have been over nearly 40 years, their play-by-play has been excellent, from Robson on down.

Is there any particular reason this can't even be found on Sportsnet's own website?  Not to question the validity of this, but that is strange.

Quoted from HairForRadio

Good for Shorty!

As bad as The Canucks have been over nearly 40 years, their play-by-play has been excellent, from Robson on down.

I'll second that. Canucks fans have never suffered in that regard...congratulations to John Shorthouse. It's a logical next step in his career and I wish him the best with his new position. Any ideas who'll be in the running to do Canucks radio play-by-play when Shorty's doing TV?

Rick Ball did some SportsNet games back when he was with CFAX - so they have someone in-house....

I've never read a discouraging word on here about John and Tom, and mom told me if you can't say anything good about somebody……

But……is it just me or does anyone else have a problem with John's voice?

When I first got to this market having worked in others across the country and having listened to tons of game callers in all the sports I heard John call a Canucks game and thought…this guy has no voice. No bottom end. It's all from the Adams Apple, up. He sounds like a teenager, like Jim Henson doing Kermit the Frog. (The live Jim Henson, not the dead one)

Play by play can only be done one way. Innovate and you'll piss off your listeners who are used to the usual drone and cliché of play by play. That being so, please let me hear that drone and cliché from somebody with a mature, deep voice.  

And don't get me started on Larscheid.

If I hear him say one more time…..they're 'goin for the "juggler" vein….I'll scream !

I know home team colour guys are supposed to be biased but Larcheid takes it to a whole new level.

Constantly calling the players by the nicknames the other guys on the team use; that's bush league.

(The "Cooker" and "Jovo-Cop" Is that some sort of stretch/twist on Robo-Cop?) (God, I hated that one!) (Still do, when big Ed is back to town!).

REDDS

Decades ago, a broadcaster was supposed to need a deep, rich, mellifluous voice in order to be considered suitable for the profession. Today I think the emphasis is rightly placed more on what a broadcaster/sportscaster knows about the subject at hand and how well he communicates that knowledge to listeners or viewers. Unless a broadcaster's voice is particularly annoying - in which case they probably wouldn't be employed in that role anyway - I'm not too hung up on the sound. It's what they know that I find more compelling. And I think Shorthouse does a pretty commendable job in that regard. On the other hand, if you can get a broadcaster that has both superb knowledge AND a deep, rich voice (i.e. Dan Shulman-ESPN) ... "that's GOLD, Jerry"!

Having an irritating voice is why Dan Russell never made it to the NHL.  

Mind you, Joey Kenward has a decent voice, but he's still annoying.

Oh, and Larsheid signed a 3 year contract extension.