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Pearson was a good player back in his day, he also could sum up a scoring play and who would get the goal. Orr passes to Hodge passes to Mackenzie, he shoots and it bounces off the boards and bounces off a Toronto players skate then touches Espo's stick and he'll get the goal.
Pearson had a great eye and an economical delivery, there are a lot of worse things that can be said about a color guy. I know, I've said plenty of them about Zo & Scal
Because there were so many more stoppages in play during those years, Pinpoint (given him by the Sports Huddle dudes I believe) would fill those pre-faceoff gaps by simply repeating the goal-scoring summary, even if no additional goals had been scored since the last time he did it... I thought he was much more effective in the studio with Tom Larsen where he could concentrate on play break-downs & analysis than he was in the broadcast booth... His between-period interviews weren't bad either...