Randeep Janda

He had a color coded system and he said, I'm old school.

I still do it by hand, but everybody's got a system and I'm sure you have yours too, but he, he would, you know, he just, he didn't have to do that.

that, you know, was at it with the greatest broadcasters of all time.

And to get that sort of inroad to his line of thinking or the stories that he would tell, you know, playing against, you know, whether it's Lemieux and the game is

into his history and him cracking jokes like it just normalized everything for me who was stepping into the broadcast I was nervous you know I hadn't been there before and Cheech was just whether he was showing his process whether he was making fun of himself to just normalize everything around him he was

So fantastic in that way, because, guys, we know broadcasters, you know, in the industry, if you've been at it for 40 years, 35 years, 30 years, whatever it was at that point in time, not everybody's so welcoming.

Right.

And that was the beauty of it.

And whether it was, you know, somebody that walked into the gondola for the first time on a tour or 30 recall.

He just made you feel at home, and he'd take a shot at you every now and then, but he'd take a shot at himself as well, and that felt normal.

He was just so special in that regard.

Yeah, when you have your play-by-play partners say that, and any broadcast, right?

It doesn't have to be that role, but I think in that role, because it's a two-person job, obviously bringing Murph as the ringside, there's a lot of heavy lifting there at moments, sometimes when...

If you're a play-by-play commentator, you need your color commentator to jump in there.

That trust has to be there, that ability to say,

And it felt like with the chemistry, some of the classic clips, whether it's the Luongo jinx job or there was that weird noise on the broadcast that one time against, I believe it was Tampa.

You know, just the ability to, A, have great analysis was one thing and they're the best at what they do.

But guys to have that levity and have an understanding.

but they'll listen to broadcasts, watch broadcasts.

That takes time, but it also takes a special duo or trio to work off of each other.