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Rick Ball

Rick Ball

Canadian sports commentator

Sep 3, 2026

10:35
What happened there and what do you make of it?
10:40
The so not to get too far into the weeds of the sort of minutia of Canadian broadcasting, but Hockey Night in Canada was an institution on the CBC, which is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for TV.
10:55
I don't know, it goes back to radio.
10:56
You know, I think it'd been around for 90 years or something back to the, when it started on a radio and then eventually over to television.
11:02
And it was a Saturday night show.
11:05
I think for fans who, I think most hockey fans, even American fans know Hockey Night in Canada, but for those who might not be familiar, it's basically Monday night football, right? It was a once a week show That was its own entity.
11:18
I mean, it was those guys and women you never saw the rest of the week.

14 MINS LATER

24:53
Do you think that's good for the NHL?
23:10
Ooh, Jeff wants an analysis of the Central Division from Rick.
23:16
Well, get it ass.
23:17
No one knows it better.
23:18
It's a meat grinder.
23:19
You guys know that.
23:20
It's a meat grinder.
23:21
That's the thing about becoming a playoff team again.

17 MINS LATER

EmmyPANELIST
40:17
Oh, my God.

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