Bob Cole was the play-by-play voice of countless NHL games.
FILE - Legendary broadcaster Bob Cole poses prior to calling his last NHL hockey game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs in Montreal, Saturday, April 6, 2019.
“Look at Lemieux. Oh my heavens. What a goal. What a move. Lemieux. Oh baby,” Cole said excitedly after Lemieux went the length of the ice, skated through the defence pair of Shawn Chambers and Neil Wilkinson and deked goalie Jon Casey.“I don’t know when it’s going to come out. No idea … I don’t plan it. It’s spontaneous,” he wrote in his autobiography. “I don’t script the thing. It’s ad-libbed … and that’s what broadcasting’s all about.
He called Bob Beamon’s world-record long jump at the 1968 Olympics, curled in the Brier, served as quiz master onswansong came April 6, 2019, the regular-season finale in Montreal between the Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. Players, coaches and fans stood in appreciation to honour Cole in the second period as his four children, Christian, Hilary, Megan and Robbie, watched in the gondola at the Bell Centre.
In his later years, Cole’s broadcasting schedule was reduced by Rogers, which took over national TV rights via Sportsnet ahead of the 2014-15 season. He did 16 games his final season, up from the 10 originally planned.“I wish it were more, but they’ve got a lot of guys in place,” he said. “They’ve got my phone number.Cole counted family, flying, dogs, Broadway shows and fly-fishing among his loves.
He listened to Hewitt bring the game alive. “It was heaven for me,” he told the CBC in a 2019 interview.His first job in radio came in 1954 at VOCM in St. John’s as a part-time news reader and DJ. Starting in April 1969 doing an NHL playoff semifinal game in Boston on radio — Jean Beliveau scored in double overtime to eliminate the Bruins — Cole moved to TV in 1973.
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