Patrick Johnston

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2,576 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Sekeres & Price Show · June 17, 2026: NHL business heats up, Canucks lie in wait; HNIC RIP · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

And I was like, no, I really like this concept. voice-verified

Are you going to mourn the end of it? voice-verified

I mean, as I think I tried to note, it's sort of that there's an overall – voice-verified

era that we've left behind that, I mean, I didn't dwell too long on that, but when we had appointment viewing and everybody kind of did it the same way, I think that really was better. voice-verified

um the fact you can get it on your phone is pretty cool you know like you can want you know we're standing out there watching the you know we've got our 15 minutes standing out there watching canada play and then you turn around and you can put whatever games on on your phone and you can sit there and it's with you and that's accessible and that's that's good but i think it also in a certain level the rhythm of having to go to a place now obviously i think yeah voice-verified

Now, I mean, we're going to see that, you know, we still get elements of that. voice-verified

I certainly think Thursday is going to be like that for soccer, for instance. voice-verified

And that's good. voice-verified

But I think we just need more of that. voice-verified

So, yeah, I lament it. voice-verified

I get why it's changed. voice-verified

You know, the future is here. voice-verified

The technology is here and so on and so on. voice-verified

But it also there's also an element. voice-verified

I didn't touch on this too much in the column, but there is also that element. voice-verified

sort of diminishment of what Saturday night means. voice-verified

And I, I, you know, I mean, in the end, that's sport weirdly, you know, if you go back to when sports net first took over, remember they were trying to do, you know, voice-verified

raised the stakes on all so many more games and they were having you know they were trying to make it kind of more national and bigger deal and in a way they've ended up with that but it's mediocre right you know it's the really everything's a regional broadcast and and and it's not the the sort of grand production and i think that is i think that is a thing to criticize them for like they've really they've had this package for 13 years now voice-verified

As someone pointed out earlier on Blue Sky, Andrew Kurjata, who's a CBC guy up north, if you go to the top 10 viewed programs in Canadian sports history, none of them are an NHL game, right? voice-verified

And for all the investment that Sportsnet has made in trying to make this a bigger thing, and some of it is just the shifts in culture and what people do, but nonetheless, for all this investment, they have been able to turn it into this monster that you would think voice-verified

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