What I have come to realize about "The Experts" of the NHL

I try and get as much hockey news as possible and get as much analysis as possible to see if my thoughts are the same as those as the so called hockey experts on TSN, NBC, CBC, the list goes on but I don't want to seem like I need an intervention when it comes to following hockey.

I watch the games and come up with my own conclusions on what happened in them and then see what the so called "Experts" say about the games. Here's what I find about most of there conclusions, they are so off the wall how do they not get fired. We are talking crap to the tenth degree. You want evidence of this, after Game 4 of last years Stanley Cup Finals, they said that Henrik Zetterberg looked tired and they said that the Penguins would take the next two games and win the Cup. Game 5 rolls around and Zetterberg and the Red Wings stomped the Penguins.

We need to have some standards here people and the following should not make you an analyzer automatically for a TV station:

1. Being a former coach of head coach of a team, or a former player.
The reason for this is that if they were any good at coaching they would still be employed by an NHL franchise. Look at Pierre Maguire, the only reason he has a Stanley Cup ring is because he was assistant coach of a team with a guy called Mario on it. Also Pierre Maguire can't get a job as a general manager in the NHL because everybody has seen how bad he has sucked as a colour commentator and no body wants the level of suck on their team.

2. They have to have more than a passion and a knowledge of the game.
If this is the only qualifications for being an expert of hockey now, I am as qualified as most of them, I find that most of them don't have an ounce of charisma or how to get their point across. Look at the Olympics with Kypreos, Darren Pang and Bob McKenzie, Kyper continued to make them look like idiots every intermission.

There are more but these are the two that stand out, I'm not trying to make a handout guide of how to be a hockey commentator here, and until next time, keep your stick on the ice.