Elliot a little bit later on in the podcast we'll talk about all the hockey from Thursday night and all the news and the games from Wednesday as well and talk about the weekend

But the big story of the day is Bob Cole, who we lost, passed away at the age of 90, began his career at

CBC Radio in 1969, transition to television in 1973 and wrapped up in 2019 and between those years

There are about a million memories

Elliot you and I are basically the same vintage we were born right around the same time we We grew up listening to Bob Cole. All of our

early memories of hockey involve that voice. I had a chance on the radio show today

to talk to a number of people. Harry Neil, Dick Irvin,

Cassie Campbell Pascal, Ron McClain, John Davidson, Mark Askin. I'm sure you've

talked to plenty of people as everyone shares their stories and memories of Bob Cole, but I'll just

open the floor to you.

And by the way, a great piece that you wrote at sportsnet.cet.cia about Bob Cole.

Your thoughts on the legend, or as Mark Askin calls him the goat.

Well he is the goat that's the true and the great nickname he is the goat.

Very emotional day Jeff as you can imagine for a lot of people and I think the great thing about

Bob Cole was that it didn't matter if you knew him like some of us in the business did you felt like you knew him.

Bob Cole was either a friend or a coworker or he was somebody that was the voice of your lifetime. He described hockey to you and even if you didn't know him personally,

you felt you knew him because you knew one of his calls or you knew everything is happening or

there was some catchphrase of his that you loved or there was some great hockey

moment that he described to you. So everyone felt like they knew him. talking got a note in the morning from someone saying that they were hearing things,

asked around, not too much, but it was more like I wanted to make sure that people at

our place who needed to know knew

as so they could be prepared for it in case it was true.

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