True Patriot Love - Golden Age of Hockey Night in Canada： A Decade of Dominance #CBC

Length

59 seconds

Words per minute

181.36

Word count

179

Sentence count

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.

True Patriot Love - July 07, 2026