Posts About "Foster Hewitt"
50 Years Ago in Hockey: A Coast-to-Coast NHL
February 10th, 2016 The National Hockey League's historic announcement yesterday to add six new franchises was met with wild enthusiasm (well, not really) by the new cities and bitter resentment in those centres whose bids were rejected. The NHL now spans the width and breadth of North America with teams on each coast and in the heart of the continent....
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Vancouver Makes Its Pitch
February 9th, 2016 Foster Hewitt’s eloquent voice was heard in New York City yesterday as he and Cyrus McLean presented on behalf of the group seeking a National Hockey League expansion franchise for the city of Vancouver. The NHL board of governors are screening applications for expansion franchises this week in New York. Yesterday was the second of...
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Foster Hewitt – NHL Team Owner?
October 30th, 2015 “Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States…” That melodious greeting from Canada’s original and most famous hockey broadcaster has signalled the beginning of Foster Hewitt’s radio accounts of Toronto Maple Leafs games for many years. Hewitt, who described a hockey game over the airwaves for the first time in 1923 and...
50 Years Ago in Hockey - Leafs, Hawks Scoreless
January 14th, 2015 There was one game scheduled in the National Hockey League last night, and it did not produce even one goal. The Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Chicago Black Hawks in a tight, close-checking affair that ended in a 0-0 tie. The only difference between this and a Stanley Cup final playoff game was that in the playoffs, they would have...
Not Your Typical HHOF Inductee
November 13th, 2012 Monday night we celebrated the brilliant careers of Bure, Oates, Sakic and Sundin, all contributing skills, leadership, and excitement to the game over their legendary careers. Five stars, for the four stars of the night—but for Sabres fans, there was a fifth star of the night that deserved the limelight as well. Remember,...
Hockey's Dynamic Voices: Gary Thorne
June 13th, 2012 Gary Thorne, a great baritone voice that barely hid a New England background, for me and the millions that watched the NHL on ESPN in the 1990s, Thorne is synonymous with the era. Between 1992 and 2004 this former assistant district attorney and member of the Bar of the US Supreme Court called hockey for ESPN like a prize fighter...
