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Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

BSB OT - Remembering Larry Brooks

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this BSB OT the guys discuss the passing of Larry Brooks and what he meant to NYR coverage. Then Vince joins the show to talk about his time interacting with Larry and shares some stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there.

0:00.7

A plan was to record a BSBOT, which we usually put behind the paywall on Patreon,

0:07.0

to talk about, hey, how the Rangers beat the Tep Bay Lightning, and, you know, Panarin's

0:11.0

ball, Vincent Trochak changed the team, score 100% your shots you take, whatever.

0:15.2

And then this morning we woke up to the news that Larry Brooks had passed, and we thought

0:19.1

it would be better to do a tribute to him and talk

0:22.2

about our times interacting with Larry, his coverage of the Rangers over the year, and then Vince

0:27.2

Burkugliano with the Athletic and also the Flying V podcast, joins us as well at the second half

0:31.0

of the show to talk about his time with Larry and his interactions, and we kind of pay tribute to

0:36.4

the legend that is honestly was New

0:39.2

York Ranger coverage for a very, very, very long time. So this episode, we won't be talking

0:43.7

about the game next Monday when we come back or Tuesday when we listen to post on the main feed.

0:48.3

We'll cover everything that happened throughout the weekend and obviously the Tempe Lightning

0:51.7

game as well, but it just didn't feel right today when a giant of the industry like Larry passes.

0:57.4

So we put BSBOT out on the main feed.

1:00.6

It's also on our Patreon as well, but we wanted to make sure that everyone could hear this

1:04.2

one, and we didn't want to pay wallet for anyone.

1:06.6

So without further ado, here it goes.

1:10.4

BSBOT, some number, an episode that was supposed to be about Afro Man's Colt 45 and two zigzags.

1:17.1

And baby, that's all I need, is not going to really be about how the Rangers seemingly are back.

1:23.4

It'll be more about surprising news that we got this morning that Larry Brooks columnist, famous columnist and guests of this podcast has passed away this morning from, I believe, cancer.

1:36.8

I don't know if it was confirmed.

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