Hockey Night Canada： My Unforgettable Broadcasting Experience #Hockey
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Summary
On this episode of The Hockey Night in Canada podcast, host Steve Tkachuk sits down with former Toronto Maple Leafs beat writer and current Leafs radio play-by-play broadcaster Pat McAfee to talk about his time covering the team, his love for the blue and white, and his fondness for the greats of broadcasting.
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No, and that's, for me, these giants, these icons,
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these titans of broadcasting who came up with the powder blue jackets
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and the host and the interviews and the Hockey Night in Canada towel
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and that, and, you know, I get a little emotional thinking about it
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because I grew up with it, and then I became a broadcaster,
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and I was telling some of the other day, Steve,
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I remember covering my first Leafs training camp at Maple Leaf Gardens
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in September of 95, and Hockey Night in Canada showed up
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do some feature interviews and it was like the red sea parted with all the other reporters because
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we were in awe of hockey night coming in to do their features to get ready for the season it
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was unbelievable and you know we tried a lot of us tried not to let our heads get too big because
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it kind of was like that we were royalty walking in but we just tried to we just have this job to
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do we just want to focus on our job and do the best job we can but i remember looking around and