100% Hockey's John Shannon (6/3/26)
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John, did you ever give yourself a nickname back in the day?
No, in fact, I've been for, you know, as long as I've been alive, and I'm trying to tell people don't use nicknames for me. Just call me John. John. I'm against, I'm an anti-nickname guy.
I'm not a nickname guy either, you know that. Yeah. Because I know that you listen to our broadcasts, and you know I rarely... We'll use a nickname for a player. First identification is always first and last name on a player. And then once you've established, you know, first touch as an example for a play-by-play guy, you don't need to establish the player again unless there's a change of possession there. But I'm very particular on this sort of stuff. So there you go. I had a lot of nicknames over the years. I'm sure you did. Yes. Not all of them were quite flattering, as you know.
And you know what my guess is, Shani, some might say the same with you as well. Listen, the only Shani story I have, and I think I've told it in this station before, is that for the longest time, Brendan Shanahan would be around, and whether he was a player or he was with the league or he was in management with the Maple Leafs, And we'd be sitting together and somebody would say, hi, Shannie, and they were pointing at me. And then Brendan would point at me and say, you can't be Shannie, I'm Shannie. And I said, I don't want to be Shannie. So you can have it. So that became a running gag between Brendan Shanahan and me for years.
We had something similar happen when Taylor Hall became an Edmonton owner because of Edmonton. Halsey, of course, Brian Hall. Brian Hall, Halsey.
What are the latest updates in the NHL?
who did one of the greatest interviews of all time when he was in his prime with Muhammad Ali in the early 1970s. Like, it was spectacular radio. And, you know, Halls, he was a big is, emphasis on the word is, a big personality. And certainly was a guy that had a little bit of fun once in a while stoking the fires on other markets around. And Taylor Halls playing in the Stanley Cup final. What did you think of game one last night, John?
it exceeded my expectations bob uh i thought it would be a good game i i thought that we would see quote unquote big boy hockey two uh teams that are relentless uh one team a little bit bigger than the other but another the other side a little faster uh i expected some physical play we got it i'm not sure we saw the physical play i thought we were going to get but There were enough mistakes made, and that created excitement. And to get a 5-4 game in a Stanley Cup final is exemplary. And to me, it was the perfect way to start a series.
Yeah, it was a terrific game. I miss the Oilers not being in the Stanley Cup final, John. They went to the last two. And, of course, game one last year, 5-4 in overtime for the Oilers on a Leon dry saddle goal. Gary Bettman had his State of the Union address.
The game's in a pretty good place, isn't it? I think it is. I think that the amount of revenue that is coming in, I think the relationship with the players, which has been a tremendously underrated storyline for the last three or four years with Marty Walsh running the Players Association. A lot of what we have seen in the growth of the game goes to the lack of politics between the Players Association and the league right now. face-off without the players and the league working closely together.
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