Steve Dangle

That was still one of my favorite interviews we ever did.

We never got the chance to interview Joe Bowen, although I did when I was with the I did the league's podcast for a couple of years.

and um very very nice man his his son sean was on there too he also works for maple leaf sports um and joe uh just deserves uh all the love and all the shout outs i'm just sad that they never got him a damn cup yep um he did quit playing hockey because he wanted to be a goalie wanted to be the next johnny bauer and i think did what all of us listen if we could if any of us were great athletes we would much rather be playing the game than talking about the game

Right.

Like that's kind of the that's the secret thing about media.

Joe understood that it wasn't going to happen for him.

And so he ended up in the booth and did a pretty damn good job.

And I thought John Tavares saying, yeah, I remember listening to him growing up and then to have and then to play here with him calling like that's special.

Absolutely.

I want to get back to... He's a quote-unquote throwback.

I want to get back to...

excitable play calls like his.

You know, there's been this thing and it happened in radio and in television where back in the day, like, you know, MTV in the 80s or, you know, radio in the 80s, there's a lot of this going on.

And I understand why we got away from calls like that.

But what it did do was it also meant people kind of misunderstood the rules and it meant just like don't get excited about anything.

And when you have a local announcer,

who is that excited about the game.

I think the fact that we have lost that on television, I think the fact that we have lost that in a lot of cases on radio, if there's even a radio broadcast for some of these teams, I think it's sad.

And I really want to get back to like, when I watch Steve's streams, I'm like, well, there's a guy who's a local guy who's excited.

And I'm not saying you're play calling everything because you're not.