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October 30, 1992
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Youthful team has experience in broadcast booth
Senator fans may very well be more familiar with the broadcast crews than the team’s players this season. The radio team of Dean Brown, Gord Wilson and Dave Schreiber is well-known to Ottawa sports fans. They’ll call the shots on CFRA (580). Senator fans will recognize Brown as easily as a member of their own family. He’ll be the play-by-play man for almost every period this season with Gord Wilson as his color commentator for almost every game. The two have worked together for almost half a decade broadcasting the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa Rough Riders. “Gord Wilson and Dean Brown will be the same guys listeners have gotten use to,” said Brown, one of the league’s younger broadcasters at 30. “We’ll call it the way we see it, and be fair. ‘They’ll get Gord Wilson…
Steely resolve City of Hamilton soldiers forward in bid to earn NHL expansion team
If you remember only one thing about Hamilton, Ont., the NHL’s perpetual bridesmaid, remember this: If something crummy happens in your town, odds are it has already happened in Hamilton. A city of 316,000 on the shores of Lake Ontario, Hamilton is a one-industry town whose meal ticket has been ravaged by the recession. Just over 14.000 people now work in one of the city’s two giant steel mills. Ten years ago, they numbered 25,000. Last winter, the welfare rolls swelled to their largest size ever. Toronto looms across the lake as a tangible reminder of the difference between a city that sees itself as world-class and an ambitious burgh. And so. like the plucky but undersized neighborhood runt, Hamilton soldiers on. A Can-Do attitude carries weight in Hamilton. It explains why almost a decade…
Kurri made to order at center
Where would the Los Angeles Kings be without a rejuvenated Jari Kurri manning the middle on their top line? Coach Barry Melrose shudders at the thought. “I wish I could adopt him,” Melrose said. “He has saved our necks with Wayne Gretzky being out. We would have been forced to make a trade from a position of weakness.” Kurri hasn’t merely taken up space centering a line with Luc Robitaille and rookie Jim Hiller. He has flourished. Kurri became the 18th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals Oct. 17 with an empty-net goal in the Kings’ 8-6 win over Boston, giving him three points for the night and extending his point streak to six games. He and Robitaille were tied for the team scoring lead with 11 points each, and the Robitaille-Kurri-Hiller…
SCA loses another fight over NHL television rights
SportsChannel America’s attempt to retain its right to televise NHL games in the United States failed in a New York court Oct. 13. SCA, which lost its NHL television contract to ESPN this season, contended it had the right to first refusal for a new contract but Judge Shirley Fingerhood ruled in favor of ESPN in the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court. Fingerhood said SCA offered conflicting interpretations of its right for first refusal. The judge also said she would not grant SCA an injunction to stop ESPN from showing games because it would not be fair to hockey fans if the NHL were forced to blackout games. The NHL’s new deal with ESPN nets the league $80 million for the duration of the five-year contract. SCA had broadcast NHL…
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