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Golden Age of Hockey Night in Canada： A Decade of Dominance #CBC

Hosted by
Shara Micucci Mike Wixson
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Episode Stats


Length

59 seconds

Words per minute

181.36

Word count

179

Sentence count

8


Summary

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In this episode of the Hockey Night in Canada podcast, we look back at the golden age of the network and look ahead to the current era of hockey on the network. We talk about the glory days of Hockey Night Canada, the early days of the Baby Blue Blazers era, and look forward to what s to come.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I look back and I think, I can't believe I was lucky enough to do that for a decade on various levels.
00:00:07.320 It almost blows my mind.
00:00:09.500 I call it the golden age of Hockey Night in Canada because I started as a statistician.
00:00:15.020 I was a stats guy for four years, 79 to 83.
00:00:18.180 And then I was a producer from 83 to 88.
00:00:20.840 And to me, that was the absolute heyday of Hockey Night.
00:00:25.160 I wouldn't say we owned the network, but we felt like we owned the network,
00:00:28.980 which maybe those are two different things but they weren't to us and news cbc news and uh you
00:00:36.980 know the national and us were butting head to head every single time we did a show because we all
00:00:42.660 wanted to own and run the network and the cache that came with that and we wore the baby blue
00:00:49.220 blazers i look back and i think i can't believe i was lucky enough to do that for a decade on
00:00:56.820 various levels. It almost blows my mind.