Peter Puck

So obviously, I watched with my family, and it was just a feeling of that connection, knowing it was a shared experience, not just within my family, but a coast to coast kinda community thing as well.

So there were really cool intermission segments like Showdown, which came way before the All-Star Skills competition ever existed, and Peter Puck, which helped me learn the rules as a young girl.

And who could forget Coach's Corner with Don Cherry? Like him or not, that segment was must-see TV for a lot of years, and I'll never forget Don planting a big kiss on Dougie Gilmour after game one of the conference final in 1993.

And that was definitely a priceless moment.

You know they'll be playing off some of the familiar parts that we all love.

Maybe Peter Puck becomes Pauline Puck.

Wow, Peter Puck.

Okay, nice.

I am not old.

You probably don't even know that.

Hey, I had

some Peter Puck merch back in the day.

That's why you hire Kenny Holland to kind of go get some big fish.

And then you hire Peter Lavallette for the same thing.

So certainly they are kind of in unison there.

Like this is a signal to the fan base, to the to the players that we're here to certainly win a playoff round.

But, yeah, LA is very interesting.

They're kind of under the radar, and I'd be curious to see how they come out.

What do you think? What is it? I mean, you know, Peter pretty well.

What is it that Peter Laviolette does in the quick turnaround world, John? Because that seems to be his MO.

Well, this book, you know, I wanted to write something gravitas, something with a history of the culture of Canada.

But I really always approach my projects where I add a spoonful of sugar to help those kinds of medicine go down, right? So you're sneakily learning a ton about Canadian politics and culture and history, but you don't notice it because you're doing it in the context where the chapter's about Peter Puck.

Exactly.

So it's a nice way for people to take a little bit of a break from the news without really unplugging their brain.

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Peter Puck said that-

One of 700 names that, you know, that building had.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Was it Peter Puck? Was that who did that?

Brian McFarlane was one of the voices.

And yeah, it's great.