Casting Call
The Mike Danton interview was on SportsNet last night. I decided to watch, not that I was expecting anything interesting to come out of it. I just wanted to see how Nick Kypreos would handle the discussion. Would he go for the kill, or was the conversatioon pre-scripted? Danton was a big get for the former hockey player turned TV analyst and kudos to him for landing it. I’m sure others have tried and came up short.
Unfortunately though, when you get a big fish on the hook you have to get it into the boat, and Kypreos left all of us holding the line last night. Nothing was really answered or explained, just a series of though processes and possible endings that really didn’t amount to anything tangible. Sadly, there were no tales of bounty or anything like that. It felt like Danton was just using the opportunity to have his name out there again. Some thought the interview made for compelling television, while Houston gave Kypreos and SportsNet a failing grade.
Like him or not, Bruce Dowbiggin hit the nail right on the head when he previewed the interview Wednesday. He didn’t think Danton would come clean and sure enough, he didn’t. Here’s what Dowbiggin had in his Globe piece yesterday:
…we still only have snippets to indicate whether Danton is going to go Fleury-honest tonight. From the provided clips, however, it seems Danton is not ready to go there yet. Which is his choice, of course. But it also postpones the inevitable date with reality. Just ask Theo.
Not to sound too cynical, but it also postpones the release of the Danton book, which is as automatic as my mother’s old ’84 Buick Regal. What am I talking about? There’s probably one coming out already, which maybe explains why the interview occurred in the first place. Can an NHL *comeback* be far behind?
