Evan Roberts

As the third period was into its last minute and they're winning one to nothing.

I said, OK, in my mind, I said, let me figure out how I want to do this.

I wasn't going to come up with any ideas.

try to craft something poetic.

I just wanted to say something succinct as the buzzer sounded, and then let the crowd carry it just for a few seconds, because on radio, you don't have the luxury of letting that go on too long without providing context.

So my plan was just to say, as the clock wound down to three, two, one, all I was going to say is, and now there's one more hill to climb.

Bother, crowd, then go back to talking.

Well, Mr. Zolopukhin ruined all of that.

And so now my mind, as I was delivering that flashback to a game the Rangers had played in Vancouver that March, almost three months earlier.

And that game, by the way, turned into a Donnybrook.

It was great.

Mike Keenan and Pat Quinn almost got into a fight behind the benches.

It's awful.

craziness happened in that game.

But along the way, I remembered that we were on the bus going to practice the day before.

Vancouver is so beautiful anyway, that I was just admiring all the sights.

And I don't know why I swore that somebody was telling me or I noticed a sign that said Mount Vancouver.

I swore there was a Mount Vancouver.

And then that popped into my head in the middle of all that post-goal hysteria.

And I got people telling me, how'd you make that up?