Cam Talbot on Saving the Alabama-Huntsville Hockey Program and Playing College in the South

The Full 60 with Craig Custance

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Emergency pod! Calgary Flames goaltender Cam Talbot joins Craig to discuss his fight to save the University of Alabama-Huntsville's hockey program, and the fundraiser to reinstate the program and establish a school advisory board for long-term sustainability. Cam chats about his own path through the university and his experience playing college hockey in a football hotbed, as well as what the opportunity did for his unique journey to the NHL. For more information or to donate to the fundraiser to save UAH hockey, visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/uah-hockey-keep-the-dream-and-tradition-alive Don't miss this week's full episode of The Full 60 with longtime broadcasting executive John Shannon: https://theathletic.com/podcast/22-the-full-60/?episode=93

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Craig, and let me just be clear right off the hop here.
0:12.2	This is not a full episode of the full 60.
0:14.9	This week's episode was with John Shannon, who was awesome, and we literally just dropped it about, I'd say about an hour ago.
0:22.1	So make sure you don't skip that one and go listen to John Shannon at some point.
0:27.7	This mini episode or whatever you ought to call it is a bit of an experiment.
0:31.6	I was exchanging texts with Calgary Flames goalie Camp Talbot last night and we didn't have time to get him in the
0:38.6	previous episode and he's he's trying to raise awareness for the University of Alabama
0:45.5	Huntsville in a hockey program and raising funds or else they have to cut the program and so there
0:50.6	was a bit of a time element so we decided to do something different we. We're going to, we, we took about a 20-minute block, got Cam's story. We talked about the program, his efforts. And Cam's got an interesting story. I mean, he's a guy that goes down to a program, not a traditional hockey power at the time, certainly, and carved an NHL career, a good NHL career out of that moment
1:13.1	in time. And I just wanted to get Cam to tell that story a little bit. So here it is, and I would
1:17.6	love your feedback and what you think of, I mean, it's clearly not a full 60, but it's sometimes
1:23.0	it's fun just to pop in and have a quick conversation and drop it into the feed. So shoot me an email
1:28.7	Craig at theathletic.com or shoot me a note on Twitter and just what you think of this format of
1:34.8	quick hitters on top of the normal episode. But anyways, so here it is. The full, I don't know,
1:40.7	20 with Cam Tubbitt. Well, Cam, well, first, thanks for doing this. And let's just
1:47.8	jump right into it and why you're on here and talking because you've been pretty active on
1:53.0	Twitter. And I mean, you've got you've got to cause you're behind. So let's dive right in. What's
1:59.0	going on yeah well first
2:01.3	all thanks for having me guys i really appreciate uh you guys taking the time out of your day to
2:05.4	help raise awareness for this cause um basically last friday um university of alabama huntsville
2:11.3	chose to um cut funding to the hockey program and um you know, discontinue it starting next season.
2:19.9	So on Monday or over the weekend, we were given a bit of a lifeline, working with the
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