Glenn Healy - NHL Alumni Executive Director
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Stanley Cup Champion Glenn Healy, the executive director of the NHL Alumni Association is Craig's guest on the Full 60. Heals discusses the alumni associations transformation into an important resource for retired NHL players. Glenn talks about his time with the NHL PA, and as an analyst with TSN, Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada. Heals shares with Craig how he ended up as a player at Western Michigan, to slugging it out in the minors with Robbie Ftorek, before an NHL career with the Los Angeles Kings, NY Islanders, NY Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs.
Heals a notorious bagpiper tells Craig how he got started playing the unique instrument and how it led to him bagpiping in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Manhattan, and performing on stage multiple times with rock legend Paul McCartney, plus his love for his Scottish roots and playing for NHL legendary head coaches Pat Quinn, Mike Keenan and Al Arbour.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:11.1 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to |
| 0:16.4 | entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:19.7 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60. |
| 0:24.1 | I am thrilled to be joined right now from your basement, right? |
| 0:29.6 | We're confirming it's the basement deals. |
| 0:31.8 | This is three daughters, so this is my dance salon in the basement with all kinds of dance trophies behind me. |
| 0:39.3 | And Craig, I'm giving you the ticket up. I'm ready. Well, I don't want to presume anything. Maybe we |
| 0:44.2 | save that for the end. Maybe I don't deserve the kick it up a word. A couple songs. I'm happy to do that. |
| 0:49.3 | But COVID hit and Dad got relegated to the basement and his office, which is lovely and upstairs and has a great view, is now reconfigured into a Wii game PlayStation, a PlayStation, and a karaoke station. It is now the Healy Lound. |
| 1:09.4 | So anyone under 20 wants to come over, knock yourself out. |
| 1:13.3 | But I'm stuck in the dooms and dregs of the basement. |
| 1:16.5 | And I don't even know what day it is or if there's even the sun now. |
| 1:20.5 | Most. |
| 1:21.8 | Let me do a proper introduction. |
| 1:23.1 | Glenn Healy is here of the NHL Alumni Association. |
| 1:26.2 | Of course, NHL player, storied career, media, |
| 1:31.7 | everything, NHLPA. |
| 1:33.7 | Heels, there's so much I want to get into. |
| 1:36.3 | But here's where I want to start, because I remember watching an interview you did about a year ago. |
| 1:43.4 | And one of the things, I mean, you're so passionate about |
| 1:45.4 | working with the alumni and the former players. And one of the things you said kind of at the |
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