Fan Favorites: Quebec’s Most Beloved Sports Commentators and Analysts

Last Sunday, we asked you who your favorite television or radio commentator or analyst was. Here are some of the many responses we received.

Published at 1:16 a.m. Updated at 8:00 a.m.

Is there a better sports commentator duo than Martin McGuire and Dany Dubé? This is the question we should ask ourselves. Their book for their 20th “wedding” anniversary perfectly sums up the chemistry instantly developed between the two friends. Martin is amazing at the radio description! How does he manage to say so many words (without stammering) in such a short time? And his famous “And cooooooom counts!” after each Canadian goal is music to our ears. Dany, who was already there when he arrived in 2003, completes him perfectly.

Jonathan Bergeron

PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Pierre Houde

My favorite commentator by far is Pierre Houde, with his legendary enthusiasm and expressions like “my word”, “the pile-up”, “knitting with the puck”, and without a doubt “it’s the buuuuut”. I even have friends whose mother tongue is English who listen to matches in French when he is the commentator.

Marie-Josée L.

PHOTO ERICK LABBÉ, LE SOLEIL ARCHIVES

Marc Denis

I like Pierre Houde, but for me, it is undoubtedly Marc Denis who wins the prize. With perfect diction and vocabulary, fast delivery but always clear and precise and easy to understand, in French and English. I believe that Marc is of the caliber of René Lecavalier, who described the matches when I was young.

Julie Lebrun

PHOTO MARTIN CHAMBERLAND, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Pierre Vercheval

Pierre Vercheval is the best analyst in all sports. It’s funny and relevant. His comments are always fair and delivered with intelligence. His French is impeccable and his articulation is calm. He knows all the subtleties of football, both American and Canadian. He’s even better than the big American network analysts, and that’s saying something. His anecdotes are friendly and make you smile. It’s always a real pleasure to listen to him with his accomplice David Arsenault.

Jean Plamondon

PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Hélène Pelletier

Had it not been for the duo formed by Hélène Pelletier and Yvan Ponton (RDS), I probably would not have started following tennis in the 1990s. Their complicity, their passion and their love of the French language make They are a unique pair in the sporting world in Quebec. The respect they have for each other, their ability to never repeat themselves, to always look for the right word to express their fascination or their emotion, it makes me want to thank them for all these years of (sometimes) long tennis hours that they knew how to make so enjoyable.

Renaud Pilote

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Denis Casavant

For me, and even if Quebec is full of excellent commentators, Denis Casavant must be at the top of the list. Do you know many who can describe football, baseball and hockey? He is the only one who does it and in a remarkable way.

Sylvain Bluteau

PHOTO ARCHIVES THE PRESS

René Lecavalier

It’s a classic, but I’m going for it anyway: René Lecavalier is the one who inspired Houde, Garneau, Quenneville and other Casavants in the profession of describer. His perfect diction, his impeccable work ethic, his great class, his always precise words have made him the inspiring model par excellence for a whole series of descriptors in hockey and certainly in other sporting disciplines. Hockey night original, he was the one who animated it and made all the games interesting… even those against the California Golden Seals!

Yves Lahaie

PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Marie-José Turcotte

I am surprised to see in your article that no woman was chosen as your favorite sports commentator or analyst. So, to answer your question, I nominate the formidable Hélène Pelletier and Marie-José Turcotte, not because they are women, but because they are excellent and they really stand out from the crowd, all genders combined. .

Chantal Weigand

PHOTO ROBERT MAILLOUX, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Richard Garneau and Louis Bertrand

My choice without hesitation is Louis Bertrand for cycling. For several years, the great pleasure for my two sons and I was to get up, almost every morning, for three weeks in July, to listen to his description of the stages of the Tour de France. The relevance and great knowledge of Louis Bertrand, both at Canal Évasion (with Richard Garneau) and at RDS, filled me. Even during long stages on the flat, we didn’t miss a minute.

Laurent Forget

PHOTO ANDRÉ PICHETTE, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Jacques Doucet

As a descriptor, Jacques Doucet was unique in his field. His voice, his way of describing a sport which has nothing obvious in terms of action made him a legend. How many summer evenings of Quebecers have been enhanced by this hoarse and soft voice of Mr. Doucet? In campsites, on balconies, in shopping center parking lots, we often heard this discreet voice which did not seek to impose itself on us with screaming excesses.

Gerald Rousseau

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Alain Goldberg

I like Alain Goldberg in figure skating. We feel the emotion and the explanations on the skaters’ movements are clear and accessible, while following the evolution of the performance on the ice.

Tania Marcy

PHOTO ARCHIVES THE PRESS

Claudine Douville

I’m going to go with Claudine Douville. Name me a sport she can’t describe. Always with excellent preparation, she knows the different sports she describes very well. In a man’s world, she was able to reach a level that few commentators have reached.

Richard Tétreault

PHOTO ROBERT SKINNER, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES

Rodger Brulotte

He’s not perfect, he talks too much and he’s sometimes a little too enthusiastic, but watching a baseball game analyzed by Rodger “She’s Gone” Brulotte is a real delight. Baseball is a slow, sometimes boring sport, especially sitting in front of the television, but Rodger, with his anecdotes and knowledge of the game, makes the games very interesting, especially at the end of the season.

Yves Boudreau

2023-12-17 13:01:21
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