by James Murphy
Are you ready to GET INSIDE HOCKEY? Well then tune in this Saturday for the Inside Hockey Radio Show, 2-4 PM on “NHL Home Ice” XM 204 and Sirius 208, and 1120 AM WBNW in Boston. You can also listen online at moneymattersradio.net. Join host James Murphy as he takes you inside the NHL, AHL, NCAA, CHL, and all things hockey!
Co-host Todd Carroll won’t be in studio this week as he is on the road a again, scouting the 2008 World Junior A Challenge in Camrose, Alberta. But he will be joining us to go “Toe to Toe” as he always does and this week we’ll discuss the World Junior A Challenge and touch on the latest hot-button topics around the NHL and the hockey world, including how Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas was somehow left off the All-Star Ballot, despite being in the top three in goals-against average and save-percentage!
With the 2008 Hockey Hall of Fame inductions taking place in Toronto on Monday, the Inside Hockey Radio Show will celebrate the careers of all the 2008 inductees! Glenn Anderson will join us to discuss his induction and look back on a glorious career in which he won six Stanley Cups (five in Edmonton; one with the Rangers).
Anderson was noted for his aggressive "to the net" playing style, typifying the NHL power forward in the early 1980s. He scored 498 goals and 601 assists in 1129 regular season games, and added another 93 goals and 121 assists in 225 playoff games.
Not only was he one of the most prolific scorers in NHL history but he was a clutch player as well, scoring five playoff overtime goals, third only to Joe Sakic's eight and Maurice Richard's six. On top of that he had 17 playoff game winning goals, good for 5th all-time.
Also coming onto the show will be Edmonton Oilers President of Hockey Operations Kevin Lowe, a six-time Cup winner in his own right and a former teammate of Anderson's (with the Oilers and Rangers). We're sure Lowe will have plenty of great Anderson stories to share with us!
We will chat with legendary hockey voice Mike “Doc” Emrick, who serves as a TV play-by-play announcer for the Devils and also calls games nationally on Versus and NBC. Emrick was awarded the 2008 Foster Hewitt Award and will be in inducted into the Hall on Monday.
Joining “Doc” in the media wing will be longtime Canadian Press hockey scribe Neil Stevens who was awarded the 2008 Elmer Ferguson Award.
"As a wire service journalist, Neil Stevens' name didn't always appear in the newspaper, but he might have been the most widely read hockey writer in Canada for the past 30 years," Kevin Allen, president of the Professional Hockey Writers Association said recently. "He's an old-school reporter who can craft a game story in 30 minutes and make readers feel like they were there.
"His longevity as a Canadian Press hockey writer says volumes about how well he mastered his craft."
Stevens who began covering hockey in the early '80's and worked the first of his many Stanley Cups in 1982 when the New York Islanders beat the Vancouver Canucks, will join us to discuss his career and induction.
Ray Scapinello's career included the 1998 Winter Olympics, 20 Stanley Cup Finals, 2,500 regular season games, and 426 playoff games. He retired in June 2004 after 33 seasons. Over the course of his career, Scapinello never missed a single game due to injury or illness and he won’t miss the Hall of Fame festivities this weekend in Toronto where he too will be inducted for his legendary career.
“Scampy” as he was affectionately known, won’t be able to join us this week, but his good friend Rob Simpson (MSG, NHL Network), who chronicled Scapinello’s career in “Between the Lines: Not-So-Tall Tales From Ray "Scampy" Scapinello's Four Decades in the NHL”, will be calling in from Toronto to discuss those tales which are sure to make you laugh.
Ed Chynoweth was the long time president of the Western Hockey League and Canadian Hockey League, a director of the CHL, team owner, pioneer, and one of the most influential men in junior ice hockey in Canada.
Chynoweth became the WHL's first full-time president in 1972, a job he held until 1995, except for a brief stint as the general manager of the Calgary Wranglers in 1979–80. Chynoweth also helped to form the CHL in 1972, bringing Canada's three major-junior leagues under one banner, and served as its president from 1975 until 1995. Ontario Hockey League commissioner David Branch called Chynoweth "the architect of the Canadian Hockey League as we know it today."
In 1995, Chynoweth left his posts to form the expansion Edmonton Ice, now the Kootenay Ice. He remained the team's president and governor, as well as the WHL's chairman of the board, until he passed away from kidney cancer last April.
On Monday, Chynoweth will be posthumously inducted into the Hall under the “Builder’s” category. His son Dean, a former NHLer and current GM and Head Coach of the Swift Current Broncos in the WHL, will be on the show to discuss his dad’s influence on Canadian Junior hockey and on himself and his career. Mike Wyman also features Ed Chynoweth in this week’s Golden Years.
Finally, we’ll continue with the junior hockey theme and take you on the “Junior Circuit” with Patrick King of Rogers Sportsnet.
So if you want to GET INSIDE HOCKEY, then tune in this and every Saturday to the Inside Hockey Radio Show, 2-4 PM on “NHL Home Ice” (XM 204), The Team 990 in Montreal, and 1120 AM WBNW in Boston. You can also listen online at team990.com or moneymattersradio.net. Again, Montreal listeners will not be able to tune in via the Team 990 this week, but you can listen online to the MP3 archive at insidehockey.com/radio.