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One Leg Up On Sports With Kenny Albert , Lou Terminello And Alex Garrett · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, welcome inside to One Leg
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Up on Sports with Alex Garrett and lou Terminello. And I have a longtime
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friend of this podcast, of the Viscardi Center, mister Kenny Albert. Thanks
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for joining us today, Kenny, great to be with you, guys.
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Alex. We saw each other at MSG last night prior to the Rangers game
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against Montreal, so it had been a while, but always great to see
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you and glad things are going so well. It's so awesome to know that
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you have roots in Port Washington. You know, it's an interesting commute out
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there there and the pen from Pensation. I'm back, but to know that
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that's your home town. It's kind of small world, isn't it. Well,
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first of all, it's the best train line. I grew up in
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SAMs Point, Port Washington, lived there basically from first grade through high school,
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and then back during the summers during my college years, and it's the
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first stop or the last stop on the train line, depending on how you
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look at it. So if you're coming home and you'll fall asleep, you
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won't miss your stop because it's the last top. And during my childhood when
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the Jets were playing at Jay Stadium, and of course the Mets. I
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would take the train all the time. It would stop at Shay and then
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go on to Penn Station, Madison Square Garden. You didn't have to switch
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anywhere. So certainly my favorite train line. It's funny that that line is
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now permanently on stops at Mexwell AT's point every day now game day or not.
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Anyway about last night though, right, I mean Chris Krider hat Trick's
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sixth career I believe of his career six game win streak pretty strong out of
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the break, isn't it? Is this one of their fastest starts out of
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the break. It is a great start out of the break, and two
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big wins right out of the All Star breakover Colorado and Tampa Bay, two
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of the you know, really good teams in the league. So it's been
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a terrific stretch. Jonathan Quick picked up another win last night. Igor Schustorkin
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was terrific in his last game again Calgary. So uh, you know,
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when you look at the start the Rangers had at the beginning of the season
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and then the recent play, uh, they have an exciting weekend coming up
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with the Stadium Series game on Sunday against the Islanders at MetLife Stadium. So
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an exciting game last night for the fans. Crider picked up the hat trick.
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Adam Fox had four assists, Meeka's advantage at or Temmy Paneren three points
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a piece. So I'm sure for you, Alex, it was a fun
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game to be out as a fan. Oh yeah, me and Gabby had
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a blast. Now, Lou, I know you you know the Albert family
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a little bit way in here with us, like I said, like I
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said, uh, I with the Nets, my first five six years with
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the Nets. I knew his uncle Steve very well before he went to the
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West Coast to do WARR TV. And a great guy and a guy who
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just like Kenny, because you know, Kenny comes from a family of sports
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broadcasting royalty and uh you know, obviously one of the most versatile families as
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is calling so many different sports. Steve called all four major sports like Kenny's
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doing now and your dad did it now. I knew al a little bit
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when he when he was the with Indiana, and I don't think he and
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Ken you can correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think out called all
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four major leagues. Correct. I don't think he did baseball or football,
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but he was heavily involved in basketball, hockey, and boxing for a long
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time with USA Network. Steve did call the Jets on the radio for several
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years and also called Mets baseball for seventy eighty one. So Steve was a
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member of the Four Sports Club plus boxing as well. In fact, he's
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a member of the Boxing Hall of Famer. That's right. Yeah, I
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think I think Steve replaced Unsay Nelson. He did, he did. He
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was the first to break in. You know, the Mets had the three
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original broadcasters for a long time, Bob Murphy, Ralph Connor, and Lindsay
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Nelson from sixty two, the Mets first season until seventy eight, and then
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Lindsey Nelson left after that seventy eighth season and Steve became a part of the
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Mets broadcast crew in seventy nine. Yeah. Now, great, great guy,
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just a great Give him my best when when you talk, will be
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back in the New York area. Okay, great, So you're talking about
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the Rangers that they went through it at twelve twelve and one stretch and now
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they've won six in a row. The one guy that had surprised me going
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into this season, Jonathan Quick. When the Rangers signed him, I went,
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eh, okay, I thought that athletically and he's one of the most
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athletic goaltenders in the NHL. I thought he had I really thought he had
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lost it, and he's been correct me if I'm wrong. He's been a
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marvel for the Rangers this year. I mean, he's been as good as
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he's ever been. I mean they have a fact. Yeah, he's been
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terrific. You know, when you look at his last couple of seasons,
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the numbers probably weren't what they were earlier in his career, but he set
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the bar so high, you know, winning two Stanley Cups in LA and
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then a cons Mike Trophy. He was playoff MVP in twenty twelve, and
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then he goes and wins another Cup in Vegas. Last year. He wasn't
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the guy in the playoffs, obviously, but he did win some big games
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for them during the regular season down the stretch, so he won his third
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Stanley Cup. Ring never expected to be traded from LA, thought he would
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finish his career there, but winds up getting traded to Columbus last year and
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then the next day they moved him over to Vegas signs with the Rangers,
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his favorite team as a youngster. Grew up in Connecticut. His father in
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law, Mike Backman, played for the Rangers back in the early eighties,
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so he has a long history with the club even before he signed with the
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Rangers as a fan and some family ties. But he's been tremendous heading into
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the last night, he was in the top five in the NHL and goes
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against average and save percentage. Igor is historic and another guy who set the
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bar really really high when he won a Vesida Trophy a couple of years ago
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back in the twenty twenty one to twenty two season. He looks to be
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back on his game, shut out Calgary the other night. So the Rangers
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probably have the best one to two punch as far as goaltenders in the entire
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NHL. You have to put Boston up there as well with Slamon and Oldmark,
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but not many teams can say that they have, you know, the
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goaltending that the Rangers have with Sisterkin and Quick and do you think and do
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you think Jonathan is sort of mentoring Igor egor are still fairly young at this
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or do you feel like a mentorship's going on there as well? Well,
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you know, unless you're in the locker room, you know, not sure
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exactly what's going on there. You know, he seems to be a great
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teammate from all accounts, you know, from everything I hear, Jonathan Quick
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is a great teammate, so you would think that would be the case as
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far as helping to mentor they have one of the greatest goalie coaches in all
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time and Ben wild Layer, who's been with the Rangers, you know throughout
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the entire Henrik Lundquist era now has been to Igorsh's Stirkin for five or six
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years. And you look at some of the former backups with the Rangers,
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Alexander Georgiev and Cam Talbot Will also worked under a Layer. They were both
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All Stars this year along with Shastarkins. So you know, the goaltending and
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the coaching by Ben Wailare over the last two decades here in New York with
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the Rangers has been just tremendous. And you talk about goaltending in general,
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and obviously I've been watching I've been watching hockey a little bit longer than you
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and I think that's one of the biggest changes from when I started watching and
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listening to your to your dad in the in the mid sixties. The athletic
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ability the goaltenders is just, to me just phenomenal. I mean, it's
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to me an all time high. You talk about Jonathan Quick his flexibility.
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I mean sometimes you know he makes saves that like he's an elastic, an
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elastic man. He's goaltenders are just at another level. Yeah, they really
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are. And when you look at also the equipment. You know, sometimes
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when you look at them from the seventies and eighties, the goalies look so
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small. They do a lot bigger these days. But you're right about the
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athleticism, whether it was lung Quest or now Sisterkin and Quit, Mike Richtor
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even before Hendrick came in. Uh, just incredible athleticism. And uh sometimes
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it's hard to believe that the team could score seven goals in a game,
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and you look at how good these goaltenders are. Sam Montebeau of Montreal,
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who allowed the seven goals last night, he was spectacular in the last game
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the Rangers played against the Canadians back in early January. You know, yeah,
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you talk about the changes in the game, and obviously he's not as
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physical and as it was in the seventies. The rules have changed, but
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I think right now this is probably the best era of of hockey. Yeah,
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we liked the rock and soccer hockey when we were younger, and you
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know, the old days. But I think as far as has never been
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as many skilled players in the NHL as there is now. In my opinion,
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well, I think you're right. You know, when I when I
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think back to my childhood, you know, those Gretzky Edvanton teams are pretty
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highly skilled, right, you know, the Montreal and Island are dynasties before
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that. But when you look at the the amount of high level young players
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that are out there now, it's just so much fun to watch, you
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know, whether it's Connor McDavid and Edmonton, Nathan McKinnon and Colorado, and
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those guys are veterans, but some of the youngsters like Jack Hughes in New
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Jersey and Connor mcdard who came back from an injury last night in Chicago,
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and Matthew Kachuck in Florida, they're they're just so much fun to watch.
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And you know, we went through the Sydney Crosby, Alex loveatskan Era,
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those guys are still playing at a high level. But you know, Crosby
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winning the three Stanley Cups, so Vetskin winning a Cup and now sort of
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passing the baton over to the newer generation of NHL stars. And great news
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that they're going to be able to play in the Olympics in the next two
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Olympics, which I to me, those NHL Olympics broad hockey for me as
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a hockey fan to just an incredible level. And you called you call those
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games, so I agree with you, Lou getting the opportunity to call the
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games in two thousand and two, six ten, and fourteen at the Olympics,
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just watching the highest level of hockey, it was like watching every team
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was an all star team, you know, whether it was the US,
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Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czech Republic. And then the last
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two Olympics, you know, unfortunately for various reasons, the NHL players did
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not go. It was still fun to be a part of both in twenty
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eighteen in Pyeongchang, and then in twenty twenty two we called the games from
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Stanford, Connecticut. You know, it was the back end of the pandemic,
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so we didn't travel, and then calling the women's gold medal game in
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twenty eighteen. You know, I think the women's hockey and Peung Chang had
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even more eyeballs on it because of the fact that the NHL players weren't there.
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So that's one of the great memories of my broadcasting career. Calling the
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gold medal game between the US and Canada on the women's side in twenty eighteen.
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It went to a shootout and the US won the game three two.
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Yeah, I'm sorry, I hit, Alex. I feel like we'd see
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that in your book, A Mic for All Seasons, right, I mean,
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that's part of your whole history in that book, right there, isn't
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it. Absolutely? That's certainly a big topic. The gold medal game in
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twenty eighteen and all of the Olympics that I called as an entire chapter on
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the Olympics and the work that I was fortunate to do for NBC. I
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know you had the book with you last night, Alex, and so glad
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that you're enjoying it. It was published about four months ago in October,
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and the book has its own Instagram side A Mic for all seasons. You
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can follow the travels of the book. But it was a lot of fun
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just telling so many of the stories that I've accumulated over the last thirty plus
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years. Well, now, I'm sure you haven't a book, and I'm
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a whole transparency. I haven't read it yet, so it's on my to
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do list. But like you've done everything, And I don't know how you
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keep the travel schedule that you keep. And I'm sure, I know,
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I'm sure in other interviews people ask you about that. But how do you
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keep the travel scheduled that you keep? And you go from one game to
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another? And I'm a sports guy. I listen to a lot. I
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listen to a lot of sports and watch a lot of sports. You never
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make a mistake. You're always at the top of your game. It seems
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like that's the only game that you have done that week, never mind that
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you did something in twenty hours earlier in another city. How do you do
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that? Well? I appreciate it, Lou. It does get pretty hectic
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at times. The most hectic time of the year is probably October, November,
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December, when it's football, hockey, and some basketball as well.
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You know, now, it's hockey for the most part, with the Rangers
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and TNT and some NICK games three or four a month. But it's a
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lot of fun. It is a bit of a jigsaw puzzle of a schedule,
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and I've been so fortunate to be involved in as many sports as i
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have. There have been some periods where I've called three or four different sports
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within the span of a weekend or four days, and those are really the
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most fun times for me. I feel like the more that I have going
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on, the more organized I am. For whatever reason, a lot of
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work done on planes and in airports and in hotels. You know, this
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week feels kind of light. I'm off today as we speak, although I
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will go to the practices at MetLife Stadium, but not officially working. So
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no game today, no game tomorrow, all work Sunday, and then an
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off day Monday. But it gets a little more hectic in March. But
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again, very fortunate to be involved in so many different sports. Thirty years
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with Fox on the NFL side, twenty eight years with MSG, and now
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year three with the NHL. On TNT, we called the Stanley Cup Final
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Hour Crew last year between Vegas and Florida. This year. We'll take it
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through the conference final at Rotate every year, right and TNESPN as far as
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the Stanley Cup final. But you're right, you know, a lot of
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a lot of airplanes, a lot of hotel rooms, but a lot of
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index cards at cards. Never really feel like I'm working, you know,
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there's a lot of work and travel that goes into it, but it's just
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so much fun and a lot of index cards, right, Kenny, index
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cards, folders, charts. I have a huge file cabinet next to me
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with with about ninety five percent of the game charts that I've used through the
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years on the various sports, and I'll refer back whenever I have a team
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again, you know, to some of the information. So a lot of
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useless information stored up here as well, you know, names, numbers,
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statistics. But hard to believe it's thirty years and I was so happy to
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get out so many of the stories in the book, which was published a
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couple of months ago. And you know, hopefully there'll be enough stories for
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a sequel someday. Now, Lou, I'm sure you saw it. I'm
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sure you saw this also. You were so I'm proud Kenny to be part
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of that thirty year anniversary on Fox Sports. You have been calling that for
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as long as that time? Is that right? Because it seemed like you
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were part of them for all thirty years of that right. We started in
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nineteen ninety four and Fox hired four young play by play announcers. We were
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all really fortunate we were in the right place at the right time. Joe
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Buck, Kevin Harlan, Tom Brandman and I were all hired back in ninety
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four, and here we are somehow thirty seasons later. You know, I
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know there are folks who keep track of this stuff. Somehow, I'm approaching
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five hundred NFL games, which is hard to believe. It feels like the
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first game was just last week. It was on September fourth, ninety four,
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nine four ninety four between the La Rams and the Arizona Cardinals, and
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thirty years have passed since that time. That's fantastic, Kenny, ever come
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close to missing the game, you know because of travel? Fortunately, No,
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there have been some you know, hectic travel days. I cover a
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lot of There's a travel chapter in the book. There have been six or
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seven hour car rides overnight, et cetera. At times due to cancelations or
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snowstorms. But knock on wood, very fortunate that I've never actually missed a
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game that I was supposed to be at. Oh, we hope that continues.
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Obviously, one time I missed one with a sore throat back in the
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late nineties, a Ranger radio game, but that wasn't due to a travel
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issue. I gotcha, gotcha. So for those who are aspiring to be
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where you are at, I mean, the younger generations, what, what's
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your message because obviously they see you traveling around. I see you traveling on
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of like, that's a job I want to have one day because that is
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so awesome seeing you do all this basketball one night, football another day,
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hockey the next night. I mean, what's your message for the generation,
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you know, for those that want to be in those shoes one day.
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Well, I speak to a lot of high school and college students throughout the
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year, sportscasting camps in the summer all around the New York, New Jersey
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area. Some of the biggest pieces of advice that I always give. First
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of all, do as much as you can during your high school and college
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years, whether it's internships, working at a school radio station, a school
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TV program. So many of the colleges have great journalism and broadcasting departments.
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And also don't pigeonhole yourself into just the one area that you're interested in.
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If you want to be on air, in front of the camera, in
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front of the microphone, also learn some of the behind the scenes jobs as
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well, because you never know what opportunities might come up in the future.
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So you know, these days, there are so many more opportunities than when
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I was that age. I went to NYU and worked on the radio station.
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We called basketball games on the men's and women's side, but we also
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had to fight for airtime with the music department, with the DJs. The
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Internet did not exist back then. Now, if you go to a college
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that might not have a radio station or might offer limited time to the sports
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folks, you can go broadcast, for example, a soccer game on the
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internet. You don't even need the radio station as the outlets. So if
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you know where to look, there are so many opportunities out there, and
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just try and do as much as you can ken any sporting event that you
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haven't done that's on your boocket list. You know, Lou, I've been
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I've been real lucky again. You know, to call Stanley Cup finals on
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both TV and radio. Have called baseball playoffs, NFL playoffs, NBA playoffs,
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worked one Super Bowl. It was the world feed, the international feed,
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so it wasn't on in the United States, but it was on elsewhere.
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So you know, the goal is to just try and keep working.
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As you know, I love working the big events obviously, whether it's season
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games them out of the sport, work the eight Olympics, six Winter Olympics,
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two Summers. So would just love to keep working as many of those
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big events as possible. Now, well, obviously you've done, You've done
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the Winter Classic, You've done outdoor games for any challenges, any different doing
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a game in a conventional arena and say like on Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
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Absolutely, the outdoor games for me are the most challenging games I work all
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year because the broadcast booth is so far back, so much higher and further
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back from the ice than in conventional arenas. So just worked the Winter Class
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against Seattle, and I love the outdoor games. It's a great experience.
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It's a fun experience. The fans in every city love it. All the
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games are sold out, the NHL sold one hundred and forty thousand tickets for
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the two outdoor games at MetLife Stadium this weekend. The Flyers and Devils,
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Rangers and Islanders. So tremendous events a bunch from a play by place standpoint,
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certainly challenging. No, I would understand that, that's for sure.
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And you know, and let me ask you this because obviously, growing up
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you had dad, you had your uncle. But how did you sort of
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grow your own personality? Was it from watching them or how did you grow
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your own personality? Washington listened to them all the time, as well as
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so many other broadcasters. Growing up in New York, we had none professional
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teams, so I was always listening to the radio, watching games on TV.
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I think, Alex, to your point, one of the greatest experiences
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of my life were the five years right out of college when I worked two
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years in Baltimore calling minor league hockey and then three years in Washington calling Capitol's
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games and filling in on some basketball and baseball, and really felt that I
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was able to establish my own identity in a different market and getting the reps,
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getting the experience. So I think that went a long way you know
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towards where I am now just calling eighty hockey games a year on the radio
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Baltimore Skip Jacks, and many of them without a color analyst. Some of
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them I had an analyst and others I did not, So those five years
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are very important. Tell us about your famous roommate, Barry Trotz. I
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know you talk about that sometimes, also on TV and elsewhere. Right,
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A couple of stories in the book about the time we spent together. I
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was a twenty two year old broadcaster hired by the Skip Jacks. Barry was
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twenty six or twenty seven. He was our assistant coach, and to save
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money, the team had us room together on the road for two years.
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We share our hotel room on every road trip, the radio guy and the
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assistant coach. And Barry's a great guy. He's gone on to become the
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third winningest coach in NHL history, won a Stanley Cup with Washington, did
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a terrific job with the Islanders. He's now back in Nashville as the general
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manager. And I won't ruin the story for those who haven't read the book
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yet, but one of my favorite stories in the book has to do with
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a prank that Barry pulled on me, a fake arrest up in Sydney,
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Nova, Scotia. So that was back in nineteen ninety two and it's a
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story that he still tells to this day whenever we get together and see each
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other. When your kid, when your daughters travel with you, and your
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family travels with you, how cool is that to share that experience with them.
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Yeah, it is cool. And I had the opportunity when I was
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younger to do the same thing with my father the room with my parents to
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travel around and it's a great learning experience as a youngster is to see different
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cities and take trips. And my family had the opportunity, for example,
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when my kids were young to come to a Pro Bowl in Hawaii that I
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was working to NHL playoff games around the country to a Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
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So it was a lot of fun on my end and I got to
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return the favor when they were younger. Kenny, you had mentioned that the
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twenty eighteen Olympic shootout between US and Canada the women's for the women's gold medal
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was one of the highlights of your broadcast career. Is there any other that
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come into that play. I know it's hard to pick one, but one
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that stands out more than the other few. Personally, it is hard to
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pick one, and I write about a lot of them in the book The
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Rangers. When they won the Cup in ninety four, I wasn't working here
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yet, but I was calling that series on NHL radio and they won their
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first Cup in fifty four year years. So many hockey playoff games, football
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divisional games in the playoffs that I worked, the one that I get asked
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about a lot of the Bautista batflip, the home run in the twenty Toronto
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Texas playoff series. I was on the mic for that one on Fox.
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You know. On the hockey side, the Rangers run to the final in
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twenty fourteen, calling two of the last three Stanley Cup Final series on TV
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in the US, one on NBC, one on TNT. So many memories
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during NFL games. I had the Victor Cruz ninety nine yard touchdown for the
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Giants against the Jets. Yeah, Jets definite. I'm so sorry I brought
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that up. I had a crazy play in Las Vegas last year with the
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Patriots and Raiders. The laterals at the end of the game and Chandler Jones
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interception. He returned it for a touchdown. So I do chronicle a lot
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of those events in the book, but those are some of the ones that
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certainly stand out. Now, I gotta say, you did lose a very
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dear colleague of yours. Tony Sir and you. Johnston and him always had
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a great flow. I thought on Sundays right. We had so much fun
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worked with Moose Johnston and Tony Sarahcusa for eight full seasons on NFL games.
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We called a lot of big games, five divisional playoff games, a Pro
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Bowl, some college bowl games with Moose. But Tony was a great man.
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He was a character. Unfortunately passed away about a year and a half
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ago, and think about him all the time. But he's in the book
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a lot as well. Some of the stories from our days together and some
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of the things that we did away from the stadium and away from the broadcast
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booth. Well, you know, Kenny, of the privileges that we have,
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You've been on the interview circuit a lot, but to know you personally
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is also adding to this. And I'm really thankful that you've taken the time
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I got it. Your one story because my dad passed away this past April.
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But you remember you were behind the plate with us before the Dodgers met
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series and I'll never forget that. Well, it's hard to believe how long
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ago we met, Alex and I have such great memory is of seeing you
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and your dad at Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium and City Field in more recent
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years, and we were reminiscing last night. You're thirty two now. We
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met when you were around seven at the Viscarti Center out on Long Island,
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so it's been about a quarter of a century. I've enjoyed following your life
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and career. So congratulations on all of your success and thanks for having me
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on along with Lou. It's been great chatting with you guys, and hopefully
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we'll see you at the Garden again soon. Definitely, thank you, Steve,
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Thank you Kenny, and tell Steve I said hi, and ifoul remembers
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me, but Steve, definitely what we remember me, that's for sure.
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I will certainly pass along in the regards and your dad. You know I
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was with the Next when your dad was doing Next games after we left the
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Knicks. He might he might remember me, but Steve definitely will RUPI how
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is that? How is dad? Just so? Yeah, they're all doing
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well. Just spoke to each of them recently and all living in the New
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York area, all retired but doing very well. When real quick, when
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he retired that night on TNT, it was like an emotional moment for a
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lot of people. Was it emotional for you? I was watching in a
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hotel room in Montreal during the Stanley Cup final. It was in July because
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it was during you know, the seasons were pushed back due to COVID.
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But I was glad that he got to finish up actually in an arena because
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they had done so many games that year out of a studio, which was
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a lot different for all of us. So I was very happy that his
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last game, it was an NBA game in Atlanta, was out of an
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arena and they were able to, you know, look back on his career.
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Reggie Miller was the color analyst and had some very nice words that night,
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and they did a video tribute with old photos and videos. But like
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I said, happy that it was actually in person or not out of a
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studio. Yeah, one last thing before we go talking about your dad.
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Obviously, in the mid sixties when sports kind of got to that next level,
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was beginning to get to the next level as far as interest goes.
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Your dad was Nick's Rangers, he did Giants, he did the news,
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the sports news on later channel on Channel four, six and eleven. He
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was the guy. And people now have all his access to get watching any
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game that they won. And I'm sure your dad remembers this. Rangers on
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WHN really no road games the first and second period, only the last six
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minutes for broadcast, and then the whole third period for broadcast. To where
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we've come so far in the last fifty years of sports media and sports broadcasting
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is just incredible. It is. It's crazy. And I've heard a lot
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about those days before I was born, when only the last six minutes of
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the first two period would be broadcasted on the radio, and then the entire
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third period. But back then, in the seventies, when I was growing
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up, there was no cable, so you got your sports news on channel
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four, Channel two with water Wolf, Channel seven with sal Marciano for the
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day Sports Center and CNN, So great memories for me. It was well
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before Alex this time. But oh yeah, things were a lot different these
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days on the in the media landscape, absolutely, I Kenny. One last
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thing, I heard your dad do recreations when the Dodgers and Giants. This
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was like sixty five sixty six, when Kofax and the Dodgers won on the
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last day of the season. I heard your dad. Your dad did recreations.
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I actually heard some recreations. It was on on on WHJ ten fifty
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back in the old and I know he did some of that when he was
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in college at Syracuse. When Syracuse Chiefs minor league baseball games, they would
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receive the information on the ticker, you know, each at that and then
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they would, like you said, recreate the game for the radio audience.
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Alex has no idea what we're talking about, then, I don't, but
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I feel explained it. You'll explain it very well. The ADMI was you
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guys doing the games from home or in the studio, not at the arena.
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That was the adaptation we had watched you guys go through during the pandemic,
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right, you know, that was a lot of different as well.
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I never did any from home. I know some other networks did, but
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did a lot of games out of the studio for NBC and for MSG Knicks
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Rangers games, So cover that in the in the book as well in the
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in the COVID pandemic chapter, but certainly wild times. And then I was
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up in the NHL bubble, which I also write about in the book,
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for thirty seven days in Edmonton. On many of those days had the opportunity
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to call two games a day, and twice, along with Peer maguire,
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we called three NHL playoff games in one day. So that was actually a
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lot of fun in something that will probably never happen again. Now, Lou,
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you might love this reference, but you were hurt on AM nine seventy
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the answer as well. We carried a few Ranger games over the years,
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so I know you're on our home network as well, sometimes through simocast,
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right right, I remember those games. Well. Thank you, Kenny.
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I appreciate it. I really thank thanks, Lou. I appreciate thank you.
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Gunny Albert on one leg up on Sports, great stuff. Thanks Putty,
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appreciate it.