Hockey broadcaster Danny Gallivan

When I recently heard that Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) on CBC was coming to an end, it felt like a death in the family. Saturday nights gathered around the television with family and friends will never be quite the same. Hockey Night in Canada began as a Saturday-night radio broadcast in 1931 and made […]

A Visit to the Voice of Hockey On my wife’s recent visit to the Maritimes, I asked her to make a special stop on my behalf: the Gates of Heaven Cemetery in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. There, she located the final resting place of a true Canadian broadcasting legend—Danny Gallivan, the unmistakable voice of Hockey […]