Hockey Night in Canada's Kelly Hrudey - The game had me on my knees
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Former NHL goalie Kelly Hrudey, the analyst for the Calgary Flames and a mainstay on the panel on Hockey Night in Canada joins Craig from his home in Calgary. Hrudey chats with Craig about his battle with depression, his daughter Kaitlin's brave battle with depression and how the Hrudey family has overcome a lot in battling depression through communication, love and acceptance. The former LA King, SJ Shark and NY Islander goalie, famous for the blue bandana, shares stories on Wayne Gretzky, Dean Lombardi, Al Arbour, Barry Melrose and world renowned motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
Kelly also addresses the night last summer when he spoke out on Hockey Night in Canada and on twitter when the NHL decided to play, when the NBA declined in support of Black Lives Matter. Hrudes also takes the time to answer fan questions via twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custance and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:10.0 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60. |
| 0:23.1 | I am thrilled to be joined with SportsNet and Hockey Night in Canada's Kelly Rudy for this episode. |
| 0:30.4 | Kelly, first of all, thanks a lot for doing this. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm so happy we're finally able to connect here. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, right. |
| 0:35.3 | My pleasure, Craig. |
| 0:36.5 | It's been a while, and I'm really looking forward to our chat. |
| 0:40.0 | I remember, this is, gosh, this is going to go way back. |
| 0:43.8 | You must have had me on Hockey Night in Canada radio when I was starting out as a young |
| 0:48.9 | hockey writer covering the Atlanta Thrashers, and they had just traded for Alexei Jitnik. |
| 0:55.0 | I think this is true. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh wow. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Who you would, you know, I think you had played with them. |
| 1:01.0 | And so you, and I didn't, and I was just starting out and I didn't know a lot about him. |
| 1:04.0 | And you were like genuinely curious about like his fit and how he was, and I really had, didn't have great questions. |
| 1:09.0 | And I just remember panicking as a |
| 1:11.1 | young kid. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, and then you were soon to find out that Alex Jitnik was a superb hockey player, |
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