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KRAKEN THIS MORNING: Game 81 in Vegas and a legendary broadcaster reaches the finish line (4/15) · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Cracking this morning, a presentation of the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: Audio Network, Ken Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Benton.
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  Speaker 2: A eighty one on the Horizon. Welcome to Kracken this morning.
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  Speaker 2: On a Wednesday, April fifteenth, and for the final time
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  Speaker 2: of the regular season, the Kraken and the Vegas Golden
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  Speaker 2: Knights will square off. We're here from Las Vegas. Face
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  Speaker 2: off is at seven airtime as at six thirty from
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  Speaker 2: Team Mobile Arena. I'll be on the call with Al
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  Speaker 2: Kaniski and are searched. Also back at the desk at
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  Speaker 2: Network Central. Hope that you can certainly join us. By
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  Speaker 2: the way right here ninety three three KJARFM and across
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  Speaker 2: the Global Credit Union Craken Audio Network, We're gonna hear
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  Speaker 2: from Capocaco and his postgame comments. After Monday night with
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  Speaker 2: a Crack and closed out the regular season home schedule
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  Speaker 2: with the furious third period push and Coco also getting
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  Speaker 2: closer and closer, perhaps two reaching new career highs at
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  Speaker 2: the top of the crack and scoring charts ever since
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  Speaker 2: the Olympic break. Then, plus a conversation that we shared
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  Speaker 2: from last night on Crack and weekly with legendary broadcasters
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  Speaker 2: Scott Oak a Hockey Night in Canada and after hours
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  Speaker 2: he joined me, Everett, fits You and Al Koniski to reflect,
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  Speaker 2: share his broadcasting insights as an interviewer and certainly a
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  Speaker 2: great look here for the future with an admirable cause
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  Speaker 2: that he is involved in Scott Ogar conversation with him,
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  Speaker 2: it was legendary all that coming up here In just
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  Speaker 2: a bits, Kraken and the King squaring off Monday Night
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  Speaker 2: with a Kraken looking to climb out of a three
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  Speaker 2: to nzing hole with one more period to play in
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  Speaker 2: regulation before their home fans in this regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Schwartz brings it in a one timer to the high slot.
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  Speaker 4: It was blocked by Joel Edmondson. He's slow to get
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  Speaker 4: up now.
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  Speaker 5: Adam Larson fires still, Joel edmund said, still reeling from
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  Speaker 5: the show shot block.
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  Speaker 6: Adam Larson snipes one in through traffic. M Kraken, break
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  Speaker 6: up the shutout. They're on the board three one with
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  Speaker 6: eighteen oh seven to play in the third well.
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  Speaker 7: It starts with a bad zone exit there by Kempy.
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  Speaker 7: He breaks the stick. That puck goes right to Jaden
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  Speaker 7: Schwartz who gets a good heavy shot towards the goal,
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  Speaker 7: but it's Edpington that wears it that gets things going
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  Speaker 7: the other way. Larson gets his shut off through traffic.
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  Speaker 7: Three to one LA Now Coaco.
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  Speaker 8: Cindery pass on the back door, Freddy Gadrou store.
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  Speaker 6: Copo Coco with a beautiful feet Freddy Gatrou on the
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  Speaker 6: back side and the Seattle krack and ball back to
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  Speaker 6: it in one.
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  Speaker 3: It's a three to two Kigs lead.
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  Speaker 9: Gatrou has got goals in back to back games once again.
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  Speaker 7: Freddie Gadro gets a good zone entry here, puts the
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  Speaker 7: puck deep and then he goes harder the net looking
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  Speaker 7: for something and it's Copo Coco comes up with top
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  Speaker 7: puck behind the l puts a great feet cross ice
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  Speaker 7: for the Conros got his seven.
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  Speaker 4: To the year.
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  Speaker 7: He scores three two LA.
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  Speaker 9: Now the La Kings a two to on one back
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  Speaker 9: in Cope Batar left side, Campey a ring wide pass
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  Speaker 9: right circle and they score. Adrian Kempei finishing off a
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  Speaker 9: two on one Cope Baitar in his final game in Seattle,
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  Speaker 9: feeding Kempe and the Kings restore their two goal lead
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  Speaker 9: four to two with seven thirty one left here in
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  Speaker 9: the thirds, the Montour's has shot fanned on it.
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  Speaker 10: With two and a half to play in the period.
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  Speaker 9: How manybody here's considering a fast.
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  Speaker 11: In front man of sars, pay Dad BigMan his honey.
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  Speaker 6: Bobby McMahon pulls the Kraken back to within a goal
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  Speaker 6: four three, two twenty seven left in period number three.
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  Speaker 7: We partner. That's a highlight reel goal, but it's also
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  Speaker 7: a highlight reel pass by mattipineers sold the shot, pulled
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  Speaker 7: it to his backhad dropped it to Bobby mack at
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  Speaker 7: the bottom of the circles. Click one timer blocker's side.
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  Speaker 1: This game is four three LA.
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  Speaker 3: Now around the boards.
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  Speaker 9: Everly on the left on the right wing, saw it
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  Speaker 9: through it in front, knocked down by the farrier. Five
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  Speaker 9: seconds to go, the ferryer fires it down toward the
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  Speaker 9: empty net, puts it in at the horn.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be up five three LA.
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  Speaker 2: Kings win close, but not close enough, as the crack
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  Speaker 2: And fell five to three to the Kings despite third
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  Speaker 2: period goals from Adam Larsen, Freddie Gudreaux and Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 2: Coppocaco by the way, helping out on Goodrow's seventh goal
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  Speaker 2: the season at eight eight, and ever since the Olympic break,
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  Speaker 2: Coco is a leading crack and score on this team
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  Speaker 2: right now, that's totally nineteen points in twenty three games.
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  Speaker 2: It was also his poise with the puck setting up
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  Speaker 2: Gadrou's goal that certainly showed upgrade and his instincts offensively.
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  Speaker 8: And before we.
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  Speaker 2: Share our conversation from Cracking Weekly with Scott Oak, here's
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  Speaker 2: Cocko and his reaction from Monday night meeting with the
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  Speaker 2: media after the game. Probably had some good chemistry with
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  Speaker 2: Freddy these last couple of games.
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  Speaker 8: There's might get your take out we heard from him
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  Speaker 8: last game.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I like to play with him.
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  Speaker 12: I mean I feel we kind of think about the
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  Speaker 12: same you know, like on the I side kind of
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  Speaker 12: already know like where's he and he knows where I am.
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  Speaker 12: And I mean like the goal, you know, like he's
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  Speaker 12: he's on the back door and I can make a place.
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  Speaker 12: So I feel good with him. Seems like recently for
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  Speaker 12: you personally, no matter who you're with, you've been clicking
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  Speaker 12: pretty well. How you felt about your game these last
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  Speaker 12: couple of weeks at least, Yeah, I think there's been
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  Speaker 12: there's been a good lot of good games, especially after
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  Speaker 12: the break, you know, had some some good games over there,
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  Speaker 12: played against good teams and then I mean I think
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  Speaker 12: that builds the confidence. And yeah, like like I said,
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  Speaker 12: like it's been good with Freddy. I mean there was
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  Speaker 12: a there's a time with this Stevie also and yeah,
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  Speaker 12: I mean it's like I said, there's been some some
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  Speaker 12: good games.
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  Speaker 3: And what was your take on how this game played
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  Speaker 3: out tonight?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I think I think we had some
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  Speaker 12: good chances. I mean that was a good team we
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  Speaker 12: played against, and maybe some bounces, you know, like those
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  Speaker 12: first couple of goals, you know, breakaways. But I mean
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  Speaker 12: that's how it is. And little push Indian but just
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  Speaker 12: not enough.
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  Speaker 2: Without further ado, he is a Gemini Award winning broadcaster.
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  Speaker 8: For CBC Sports sports.
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  Speaker 2: Net Hockey Night in Canada that only begins to scratch
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  Speaker 2: the surface. The one and only Scott Oak joining us. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what do you sum up as the best kind of
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  Speaker 2: day on the job for you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would point out the two things in my
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  Speaker 4: career that I've received the most reaction or publicity for
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  Speaker 4: our Number one the interview with stoop Dog back in
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  Speaker 4: the O seven Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa and Anahei and
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  Speaker 4: number two retirement, so people may be happy to see
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  Speaker 4: me go.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Look, a typical day for me is as I've always said,
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  Speaker 4: my goal in broadcasting has been to do a good
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  Speaker 4: enough show one week that they'll have me back the
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  Speaker 4: next week. So there's a lot of preparation, for example,
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  Speaker 4: for shows like After Hours, and then if you wanted
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  Speaker 4: to include those postgame celebrations to Stanley Cup championship and
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  Speaker 4: you know, players on the ice with their families, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of research for that. So I spend a lot
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  Speaker 4: of time researching stuff to be prepared. And I guess
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  Speaker 4: I fooled them to this point, and I'm getting them
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  Speaker 4: before they figure out I'm.
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  Speaker 13: No good Scott.
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  Speaker 10: I got to ask you know, you, like Mike said,
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  Speaker 10: you have been the voice for Canadians. You have been
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  Speaker 10: the voice for US American hockey fans who live close
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  Speaker 10: enough to the border where we can get CBC. When
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  Speaker 10: you look back at your career and the opportunity that
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  Speaker 10: you've had to lend your voice and your opinion and
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  Speaker 10: your talent to so many great moments in history sports history,
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  Speaker 10: how does that make you feel to know that we're
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  Speaker 10: going to open that time capsule in fifty years, one
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  Speaker 10: hundred years, and Scott Oakes's voice is going to still
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  Speaker 10: be the soundtrack to a lot of our memories as
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  Speaker 10: sports fans.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would say good and bad effort. You know,
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  Speaker 4: good in that it is the ultimate complement, I suppose,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, in the technology era that we're in now,
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  Speaker 4: nothing disappears. It's there forever bad though in that. One
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  Speaker 4: of the great moments in my career I thought was
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  Speaker 4: calling the gold Medal Downhill in Albert ninety two. It
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  Speaker 4: was won by Karen Lee Gardner and it was a
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  Speaker 4: magnificent race.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me.
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  Speaker 4: It was the toughest course women at ever ski. Many
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  Speaker 4: of the European gunners, the people who were expected to
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  Speaker 4: dominate the race, were reduced to tears after the first
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  Speaker 4: training run. That race was won by a little waif.
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  Speaker 4: Well she wasn't a little waif, but comparatively she might
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  Speaker 4: have been from Rosslyn, BC. Karen Lee Gartner and I
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  Speaker 4: had got to know heere over the years and her
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  Speaker 4: husband Max, lovely people. Anyway, Karen tore down the final
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  Speaker 4: section of the rock to fair and won the race,
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  Speaker 4: and I had a cold at the time, much like
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  Speaker 4: I'm battling right now. And I dodled her across the
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  Speaker 4: finish line. And every time I hear that call, I cringe.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those things. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: you do this, but you hear something bad, or you
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  Speaker 4: know you've done something that you don't want to hear again,
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  Speaker 4: you do this. I plugged my ears and just hope
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  Speaker 4: that it's over, you know, before I actually hear it.
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  Speaker 4: So but to answer your question, I'm honored that anyone
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  Speaker 4: would think that my voice would be the one attached
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  Speaker 4: to some magnificent moments in sport. I think this retirement thing, though,
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  Speaker 4: evert Alan Mike, has been highly overdone. There are many
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  Speaker 4: people who have had more prolific careers than me. You
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  Speaker 4: never had a chance to go out on their own terms,
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  Speaker 4: and I guess that's the difference here. I'm going out
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  Speaker 4: of my own terms, and Sportsnet convinced me, persuaded me,
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  Speaker 4: Orderline told me to make the announcement a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, and here we are with all this hooplaw,
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  Speaker 4: which is making me very very uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that just proves that you're one of the greats
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  Speaker 3: in that.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, obviously Hockey Night in Canada, that
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  Speaker 10: that is what a lot of folks know you for.
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  Speaker 10: But you just mentioned your Olympic work, your other CFL
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  Speaker 10: work that you've done outside of the NHL. What are
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  Speaker 10: some of your most memorable moments, What are your favorite things,
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  Speaker 10: your favorite sports to cover when you're not cruising around
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  Speaker 10: the rinks on Saturdays of the winter.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when I started in this business, there was
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  Speaker 4: a sports anthology show on CBC called Sports Weekend, and
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  Speaker 4: that was before the days of TSN Sportsnet, So the
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  Speaker 4: CBC was responsible for covering the Canadian championships in all
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  Speaker 4: manner of sports. Just the other day, the head of
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  Speaker 4: CBC Sports sent me a congratulatory email on my retirement.
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  Speaker 4: I wrote him back and I said, I'm available now
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  Speaker 4: for voiceovers on everything from darts to trampoline and it
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  Speaker 4: or not, I actually covered both sports. That sports anthology
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  Speaker 4: show was such that on a given weekend, because I
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  Speaker 4: was one of the guys who worked on it extensively,
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  Speaker 4: I could be, you know, outside Quebec City covering speed skating,
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  Speaker 4: or I could be in Regina covering the Canadian darts championships.
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  Speaker 4: So the Sports ran the gamut. As for you know,
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  Speaker 4: one favorite one, it would be the one I guess
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  Speaker 4: that I referred to a moment ago, and that would
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  Speaker 4: be downhill skiing. Well, all skiing disciplines, downhill GS and slalom,
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  Speaker 4: so I guess yeah, if I had to pick one,
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  Speaker 4: that would be it, largely because of the thrill of it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, women are men hurtling themselves down a mountain
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  Speaker 4: at one hundred kilometers or hundred miles an hour, whatever
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  Speaker 4: the math is is quite something. I also enjoyed it
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  Speaker 4: because there was only one person on the course at
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  Speaker 4: a time, so that was play by play that I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't although I managed from time to time to do that.
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  Speaker 14: Well, it's got a comment first and then a question
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  Speaker 14: for me. The comment is I think of Everett in
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  Speaker 14: his career so far, and he hates his calls as
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  Speaker 14: well when his voice breaks, and I think it's it
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  Speaker 14: becomes very iconic in those situations. I always give him
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  Speaker 14: the analogy of Mary Clayton and the song Gimme Shelter
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  Speaker 14: from the Rolling Stones when her voice breaks into the
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  Speaker 14: song and she wanted to redo it and they said no, nope,
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  Speaker 14: this is the way it stayed and it's become an
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  Speaker 14: iconic part of the song. And so I always think
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  Speaker 14: that that really shows the human side of what you.
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  Speaker 13: Guys do as broadcasters. And so my question is.
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  Speaker 14: You had to have had all kinds of advice over
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  Speaker 14: the years, suggestions, give us, give us a couple of
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  Speaker 14: pieces that you got maybe earlier in your career, that
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  Speaker 14: then you applied that you think of your career.
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  Speaker 4: We had a regional director at the CBC many years ago.
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  Speaker 4: We said to me, kid, so you know how many
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  Speaker 4: years ago that one. Yeah, here's the key to being
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  Speaker 4: a good broadcaster. Key to being a good broadcaster is
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  Speaker 4: being able to speak for thirty seconds on a topic
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  Speaker 4: you know nothing about without repeating yourself once. And if
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  Speaker 4: you know something about it, feel free to speak. Even so,
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  Speaker 4: there's a certain amount of that in it. A Ron
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  Speaker 4: mcclan and I always joke that the key to TV
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  Speaker 4: is sincerity and once you can fake that.
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  Speaker 13: You can do anything. Again.
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  Speaker 4: I've applied that in my career. I suppose the best
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  Speaker 4: advice I've ever received from anybody was from the late
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  Speaker 4: great Don Whitman. I came to Winnipeg in nineteen seventy five.
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  Speaker 4: Christmas is seventy five to replaced on the local sports
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  Speaker 4: system was going to work full time for the network.
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  Speaker 4: And he never said this to me, but I watched
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  Speaker 4: him in the years that we worked together, and he
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  Speaker 4: got through to me the message that you need to
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  Speaker 4: be prepared. You might head into a broadcast with twenty
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  Speaker 4: ideas and two might get on the air, but it's
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  Speaker 4: far better to have more information than not enough. I
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  Speaker 4: guess that would be the most enduring memory and the
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  Speaker 4: best lesson that I got.
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  Speaker 13: Scott.
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  Speaker 8: What's the biggest key to interviewing? Say again, what's the
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  Speaker 8: biggest key to interviewing?
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  Speaker 4: Well, just what I didn't do there, and that's listen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll speak, and clarity. I'll speak more clear next time
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  Speaker 2: I'll try you. I'll get that down one of these days.
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  Speaker 4: The key to a good interview is to be able
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  Speaker 4: to listen, to be able to follow up. One thing
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  Speaker 4: I've always said to young broadcasters, and I've been a
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  Speaker 4: victim of this by myself. I've done it to myself,
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  Speaker 4: is what I'm trying to say. Sometimes you feel like
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  Speaker 4: you have to get so much information into the question
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  Speaker 4: that there's nowhere for the guy you're interviewing to go
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  Speaker 4: other than to say yes or no. Right, So give
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  Speaker 4: the guests you're talking to an opportunity to explain himself
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  Speaker 4: and maybe tell a story. But you can only do
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  Speaker 4: that if you listen and ask the appropriate question and
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  Speaker 4: not one that's you know, three minutes long.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Ogg joining us here again, longtime host of After Hours.
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  Speaker 2: The resume is absolutely positively thick, decades upon decades of
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  Speaker 2: experiences with this here on crack and weekly. I can
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  Speaker 2: go down this road here, there, everywhere, but I'll just
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  Speaker 2: see it up for you.
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  Speaker 8: Scott. Most unforgettable interview of all time? Who was it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I would say that we finished after
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  Speaker 4: ours this year on an ice run.
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  Speaker 8: We had.
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  Speaker 4: John Cooper, Brandon Monteur. Yeah, I'm from Seattle. He was
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  Speaker 4: compelling as he talked about his life, his indigenous heritage,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: and is the passing of his brother. Seth Jones had
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Connor McDavid earlier in the year, and it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of like Connor McDavid plugged.
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  Speaker 14: You know.
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  Speaker 4: He was as unguarded as he'd ever been in any
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  Speaker 4: of any interview that I had ever done with them.
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  Speaker 4: So I've enjoyed this year. I mean I headed into
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  Speaker 4: it thinking who's left to talk to and this is
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  Speaker 4: going to be highly repetitive, But it turned out to
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  Speaker 4: be a pretty good year. So I've liked my last year.
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  Speaker 4: But you'll be surprised at this, I suppose. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to tell you that the greatest interview I ever
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  Speaker 4: did was with you know, a superstar player. It was
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  Speaker 4: with Brian mcgratten. That's the one I remember the most
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  Speaker 4: because of the path taken by our family because of
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  Speaker 4: addiction and substance abuse. You may know that we've lost
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  Speaker 4: our son, Bruce in twenty eleven to an accidental drug overdose,
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  Speaker 4: and so our life's work has become to establish recovery
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  Speaker 4: centers where men and women can go to reclaim their lives.
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  Speaker 4: The Bruce Oak Recovery Center has been open for five years,
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  Speaker 4: has achieved wonderful things, sent men back to their families,
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  Speaker 4: their loved ones, their jobs, society in general. And construction
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  Speaker 4: on the Annok Family Recovery Center for Women and Children
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  Speaker 4: will begin at the end of this month. So when
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  Speaker 4: I talked to Brian mcgratton on After Hours, much of
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  Speaker 4: the interview was about his recovery. He's in recovery. He
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  Speaker 4: was actually working for the Calgary Flames at the time
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  Speaker 4: as a development coach, but his principal responsibility was to
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  Speaker 4: be there as an advisor to younger players who might
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  Speaker 4: have got off the straight and narrow. He had a
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  Speaker 4: very powerful message about getting sober, and I remember in
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  Speaker 4: the days after the two occasions in which we talked
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  Speaker 4: to him in after hours, there were tons of When
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  Speaker 4: I say tons, I mean probably fifty to one hundred
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  Speaker 4: messages phone calls from people wanting to know how they
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: could get a hold of him because he was so inspiring. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I suppose it's exclusive to me and to
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: our family. That's probably the after hours that I remember
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  Speaker 4: the most.
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  Speaker 3: I guess on that Van Scott.
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  Speaker 10: You know, it's never easy dealing with loss and pain
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: and family trauma and things of that nature, and a
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: lot of times we kind of lose ourself in our work.
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: And when you were having to go through all of this,
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: who were the figures, Who are your coworkers, Who are
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: the people that were your support system that helped pull
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: you out of it. What were some of the events
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: that you remember calling that you know, not to trivialize it,
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: but also but maybe brought some normalcy back to the
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: world for you A.
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  Speaker 4: Good question, EVERT, and I would say pretty much all
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: of my coworkers and broadcasting we are a pretty tight
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: unit and occupy in Canada. When Bruce died, it was
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: you know, your world collapses for any parent who loses
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: a child. But I wouldn't have got through it were
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: it not for my wife, of course, was alive at
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: the time. She later passed ten years after Bruce's death.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But at the time I wouldn't have got through it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: We wouldn't have gone through it without the support of
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  Speaker 4: all the guys I work with. And I won't name
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: names because I'm sure I'll leave somebody out, but you know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: such good friends that I have, you know, established over
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the years. It's really the part of the business that
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I will miss the most. I think I said in
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: my closing the other night in San Jose as we
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: were signing off after hours, that you know, Michael Farber,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: the great writer, and I had encountered each other on
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: into each other the King's Game in Los Angeles years ago,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: and the industry was already shrinking the topic. We were
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: both late in our careers and pardon me, the topic
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: turned to what would you do if it all ended today,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: and Michael said, I'd say it was wonderful, traveled to
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: the world and somebody else's dying, made great lifelong friends,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: had a blast. And so I repeated that story because
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I can't say it any better than that, And those
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: lifelong friends are principal in me, you know, getting through
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: the passing of my wife and my son and being
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: able to carry on to this point.
• 19:58
  Speaker 14: Scott, when you were first starting this this journey, what
• 20:04
  Speaker 14: was it that made you want to be a broadcaster?
• 20:07
  Speaker 13: Was it somebody you listened to, was it somebody in
• 20:10
  Speaker 13: your life? Was it school? What made you want to
• 20:12
  Speaker 13: be a broadcaster?
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  Speaker 4: I followed my brother, my late brother, Bruce was a
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: year older than me. He was born with spina bif
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: that I lived for thirty three years. But he was
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: a wonderful man, a great influence in my life. And
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I followed him to the university radio station. We're going
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: to Memorial University in Saint John's, Newfoundland, and he he
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: loved broadcasting, and I usually, you know, took up whatever
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: hobbies that he did. And at Memorial Radio mun Radio
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: it was called I like to joke, but there's a
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: degree of truth to it that I fell in love
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: there with some of my own voice, so that's rare.
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: Usually people don't like to listen to their own voice.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I don't like it either, but that's just the catchphrase
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I use.
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  Speaker 8: And millions upon million millions would disagree.
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: After a couple of years volunteering there, somebody said to me,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: you should apply for that summer relief job over at
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: CBC Newfoundland. And I did summer relief sportscaster's job. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: didn't hear anything for a while, so I called over
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: and the guy who answered the phone was one of
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: the legendary figures in sportscasting in New Atlanta's name was
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Ted Withers, and he said to me, as a matter
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: of factor, the only guy to apply, so a commitment
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: start on Monday, thereby proving the only way for me
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: to get a job was if no one else applied.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: So I did that summer relief job for two years.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: At the end of the second year, one of the
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: full time sportscasters quit to go to law school, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: I applied for the full time job. And don't ask
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: me how I got it, because I spoke faster than
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: the speed of light, and I thought I knew everything,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and if I had to, I could get it all
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: out in one long answer. Anyway, I got the job.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: My father was upset because he had come from that
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: generation where all parents wanted their kids to do was
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: a little bit better than they had done, and that
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: for him entailed a university education. And I told him
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: at the time, don't worry, I'm going to go back
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: to university full time after a couple of years of
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: doing this. And then I got to go to the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Olympics in Montreal in nineteen seventy six before any of
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: you guys were born, probably and I decided then that
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: I had made it. My career had peaked, and I
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: did not go back to university. But my father would
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: ask me on many occasions right up until he died,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: actually about ten years ago, when I was going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: go back to university and finish my degree so i'd
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: have something to fall back on when the CBC and
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada figured out I was
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: no good. But I haven't figured it out yet, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I'm getting up before they do.
• 22:48
  Speaker 13: Answer.
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  Speaker 10: So Scott again, you're not going to want to hear this.
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: So cover year eears me growing up in a border
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: town of Detroit. I Hockey Night in Canada. I watched
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: that cash religiously. And for me, you are as synonymous
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: with Hockey Knight in Canada as Bob Cole and Jim
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: Houston and Ron McLain and Don Jerry.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Those who don't know how important.
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: And how big Hockey Night in Canada is, I employ
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: you to do some research. But also as big is
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: the towel, and every player when they're interviewed, they get
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: the Hockey Night in Canada towel. I read Julia McKenzie's
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: story earlier this week about just how it came, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: I want to hear from your from your voice. Why
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: how this seemingly white cotton towel with a embossed Hockey
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: Night in Canada logo that is clamored for around the
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: entire hockey world has become this massive symbol of Hey mom,
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: I've made it in hockey.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: It's just because of how you described your connection to
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: the Hockey Knight in Canada. Ever, growing up in Detroit,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you watched it all the time, and most guys, is
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: what sixty percent of the players in the NHL are Canadians,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: so at one time they probably watched Hockey Knight in Canada.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: In fact, probably most of them did, and that Hockey
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Knight in Canada crest the logo is big in people's lives,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and especially if you're a Canadian player or you know
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: an American player from a border town. I've had players
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: ask me if they can be the first intermission interview
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: so they can get a towel for their father. We
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: don't do those intermission interviews as much anymore. That's fine
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: because you know, they didn't really produce much reaction other
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: than we've got to play our game. Get pucks in
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: d pucks on net with traffic mixed in.
• 24:39
  Speaker 13: You name it. That's the nature.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: That's the nature of those interviews because they're only a
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: minute and guys are in the moment they want to
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: get back into the room. The payoff for us, of course,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: is after hours, at the end of the night, when
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: you get a chance to sit down and talk to
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: somebody at length. But the towels are they are iconic
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: in themselves. I've often been asked by players if I
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: would sign the towel. Yeah, trying to sign a terry
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: cloth thing with the sharpy doesn't work. But I've done it,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: and I don't like it because I think it destroys
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: the Holy Grail. As I told Julian in that story
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: that he had done that for Sports Sports netteror Athletic
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: it West part of So yeah, they're they're they're huge,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: and they remain huge. It's just part of the heritage
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: of the game and the lives of a lot of players.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Well, talking about signing toals ever, go ahead.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I was a one quick follow up.
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: Now that you're retiring after a you're getting a much
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: deserved break at vacation. Are we keeping the towels? Are
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: the towels going with Scott Oak? Are we going to.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Be handing out these towels every Saturday?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Hey Everett Man, I really appreciate that you think I'm
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: that big that they would You know what they should do.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: They should cancel all of hockey naking camp.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Hey Scott, Scott, he's done. So we're done.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: We're going out on top.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I'll see you later on that along those lines. The
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: best text I got message that I got when the
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: announcement that I had to make that night was from
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Brad true Living, who the week before had been fired
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: by the Toronto Maple leafs, and he said, basically, just
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: because I've got fired doesn't mean you have to pack it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Wrote.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: I wrote him back and I said, Brad, thank you
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: very much. I knew you'd figure it out that with
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: you gone there was no point in continuing. So I
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: would say the same thing about Hockey Neck in Canada. Yeah,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I guess the show if I'm leaving. But look, you know,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: people say it'll never be the same, and look in
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: this is how it works in broadcasting. And you probably
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: know this that you know two weeks after you're gone,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: there'll be a reaction for a week as there has
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: been this week, and maybe a little bit more, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: eventually it dissipates and in a matter of time, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: it could be two weeks, three weeks, a month at
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: the longest. Who was that guy? I remember that I
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: used to ask stupid questions and I'm fine, I'm fine
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: to get into the work with our foundation and move on.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you have gone on from signing towels now to authoring,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: and you're putting your own signature on a remarkable career.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: And you know, Scott, I think you kind of shed
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: some light on this. I mean, your love for humanity
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: is great. Your passion here for the Bruce Oak Recovery
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Center is extremely admirable. So with that all in mind,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: here what's next for you for life off the hear well.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: I will step into work with our foundation and I'm
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: looking forward to that. I'll have a lot more time
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: to devote to the Bruce Oak Recovery Center and the
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: construction of the Family of Recovery Center, and I will
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: spend a lot more time with my two grandchildren, in
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: August and Howland. They're four and two, and I want
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: to be more present for them. Weekends are very valuable
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: with kids. That's when families are families, and too well,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I I don't hope that I will be around a
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: lot more for them, so I will not have any difficulty.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Big thank you once again to the legendary Scott Oak,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: full of humor, full of humility, and certainly full of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: legendary stories for years to come, a timeless, iconic piece
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: of this hockey tapestry of big thanks to Scott Oak
• 28:15
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• 28:27
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• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to finish strong. You have they're looking to run the table.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Four wins in four games against Vegas that would also
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: help play a bit of a spoiler role. Vegas has
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: just one more game to go, one more point wraps
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: up the Pacific Division title and home ice in the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and they're
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: on a heater since naming John Tortorella head coach six
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: oh one in that most recent span the Crack and
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: also looking to close out the regular season series with
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: back to back wins for the first time in Vegas.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Roster moves also going down for the Crack, and they
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: were called Yonnie Newman again from AHL coachell Levalley, So
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: we'll see what he can do with four goals so
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: far in twenty six games in the regular season, but
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: as far as his AHL numbers are concerned, he has
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: been producing at a prolific rate with twenty one goals
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: in just thirty eight games. And going back the other way,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Jacob Alanson and Oscar Fisker mouleguard with the Firebirds preparing
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: for the Calder Cup playoffs. Now with just two games
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: remaining on their side in the regular season, we'll see
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: what unfolds here as far as a lineup, but hoping
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that you can certainly join us for this one from
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Las Vegas and T Mobile Arena of the Kraken taking
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: on the Vegas Golden Knights in the final matchup of
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: the regular season. And then tomorrow night it's into Denver,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the only time the Kraken will visit the Colorado Avalanche
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: in this regular season as well tonight's game. I got
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the call with AALCONISKI will join you once again for
• 30:02
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