Ron MacLean

That's one thing I would be just kind of keeping an eye on.

Oh, pleasure always, Bob.

And, you know, Bob, I got to know him when we did Battle of the Blades.

So I was around him all through his NHL.

You know, he had a spectacular career.

You know that for Stanley Cups and all.

But the things and I was there in 96 at the World Cup.

And maybe we'll get to that, too.

He was instrumental in the tying goal for the Americans and grapes lit him up.

Anyway, I'll start with Battle of the Blades because it's where.

I feel for all he did in the NHL, I saw him do something really incredible.

We put together our teams for the first year of Battle of the Blades, and it was a really successful run, mainly because we had Bob Probert and Ty Domi agreeing to figure skate.

Craig Simpson, as you know, won the competition.

But we had Glenn Anderson, we had Ken Danico, Stéphane Richer, Ron Duguay was, and still is, a media darling, and Claude.

And what happened, Bob, is two days before the very first show, which was being conducted at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, so that had sex appeal.

Everybody was curious to see the gardens, hadn't seen it in a while.

We had Sandra Bezic, an Emmy Award-winning judge.

We had Dick Button, an Olympic champion and a longtime commentator as a judge.

Kurt Browning, the four-time world champ, co-hosting with me.

I mean, it was all... Kelly Rudy was a... We have a guest judge each night, and on show number one, it was Kelly Rudy.