Jason Brough

that there was always someone better, and there was always someone more talented, and they were never going to be the show.

Right.

It was like he got to hobnob with the upper echelon of NHL players.

Yeah.

And then the crazy part about Cheech's career is that he went on to become kind of par excellence for what a color commentator should be at that level.

There's going to be countless others...

that'll go by the mantra of often imitated never duplicated because i don't know if you're ever going to find another individual that had the life experiences but also the ability to understand that he played at the highest level but he was a common guy and played that role to perfection on the air yeah do we have some more audio to play laddie you got something

Classic moment.

Why don't we play the audio here?

And I'll tell the anecdote on the other side.

This was when we were trying to get a hold of John Shorthouse in the very early days of the Halford and Brough show on Sportsnet 650.

And it went slightly awry.

I'll let the audio talk for itself.

John Shorthouse joins us now on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.

Good morning, John.

Good morning.

Hold on.

No, no, no, no.

Shorty gave me this number.

Wait, wait.