Too Good for Television: Great Commentary’s Move to Radio
“Good evening Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland!” If you listened to the early days of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), those words were more than…
Foster Hewitt
50 Years Ago in Hockey: A Coast-to-Coast NHL
The National Hockey League’s historic announcement yesterday to add six new franchises was met with wild enthusiasm (well, not really) by the new cities and bitter resentment in those centres…
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Vancouver Makes Its Pitch
Foster Hewitt’s eloquent voice was heard in New York City yesterday as he and Cyrus McLean presented on behalf of the group seeking a National Hockey League expansion franchise for…
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Foster Hewitt – NHL Team Owner?
“Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States…” That melodious greeting from Canada’s original and most famous hockey broadcaster has signalled the beginning of Foster Hewitt’s radio accounts of…
50 Years Ago in Hockey – Leafs, Hawks Scoreless
There was one game scheduled in the National Hockey League last night, and it did not produce even one goal. The Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Chicago Black Hawks in…
Not Your Typical HHOF Inductee
Monday night we celebrated the brilliant careers of Bure, Oates, Sakic and Sundin, all contributing skills, leadership, and excitement to the game over their legendary careers. Five stars, for the…
Hockey’s Dynamic Voices: Gary Thorne
Gary Thorne, a great baritone voice that barely hid a New England background, for me and the millions that watched the NHL on ESPN in the 1990s, Thorne is synonymous…
The Angst of Maple Leaf Gardens
Change is, as most folks will tell you, inevitable. Frankly, the NHL is loaded with change, be it franchises moving cities or introducing new uniforms, changing styles in play, and of…