NHL Analyst Barry Melrose is so often Inaccurate

A person could be ready to say “back up the Brink’s truck” were he or she to “go against” ESPN (and other networks) hockey analyst Barry Melrose’s predictions.

He almost always picks the favorite, but it is not his poor record on predictions nor the fact his picks lack imagination that draws my criticism, though that does not place him in high esteem.

It is because he so often does not get the facts correct.

In “building” his New York Rangers to win game seven prediction, which of course was wrong, he said the Rangers were (5-0) facing elimination so far in the playoffs. In fact, they were (4-0).

This is typical of unbeatable and unbearable ESPN, which rewards so called style over substance. Melrose has lived off his one good coaching season (The Montreal Canadiens beat the Melrose coached L.A. Kings in the final round). He flourishes, no matter his inaccuracies.