#1 pick overall, gets traded, loses an eye, and hated Canada too?? Interview w/ Bryan Berard

Dropping the Gloves

The Nation Network

Hockey, Hockeyfights, Nhl, Johnscott, Sports, Nhldiscussion

4.8 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Had a great talk with Bryan about his career, which I had no clue how interesting it was. I highly recommend this one, its a good listen. Enjoy

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0:00.0	All right.
0:02.0	Thank you for
0:03.0	Thank you for
0:17.0	Thank you for listening to dropping the gloves with John Scott.
0:22.0	Perfect.
0:23.4	All right, good.
0:24.8	Good afternoon.
0:26.4	I don't know when you're listening to this, everybody.
0:27.6	But yeah, thanks for joining us, too.
0:30.5	We got Brian Barard on the show today.
0:31.6	And it's funny, Brian.
0:34.8	When I, you know, I do interviews every week, and you never know what you're going to get.
0:36.2	And I do research because I'm just such a studious guy. I had no clue that you have the backstory that you have. You know, obviously you're a famous hockey player. I knew you growing up. I was living in St. Catharines. You played for the Leafs. I hated you because I hate the Leafs. But then I started digging in. I'm like, holy crap, you got some stories, man.
0:57.0	Like some actual legit, just dramatic stories.
1:00.7	And obviously the eye, everybody talks about that.
1:03.8	I'm buddies with Hosa.
1:05.6	Everybody knows that happened.
1:07.0	But even coming out of juniors, I didn't know you were drafted by the senders.
1:12.3	I had no clue. Yeah, Chris had some good ups and downs for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how much
1:17.7	you want to get into because I know a lot of my audience and listeners might not know you because
1:21.9	I skew young. I'm such a cool hit millennial. So let's just go back.
1:30.2	You were taking number one overall in 1995.
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