Terry Crisp

some of them just didn't listen.

Uh, but you know, I started, I signed pro, and, uh, I got s- sent my first year down to Moncton, and Terry Crisp was, uh, the coach and, uh, he, uh, he did not like Brett Hull.

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Uh, 'cause young Brett Hull had just come out of, uh, college, where there's not, uh ...

You know, you know, I'll, I'll play hard and do the right things, but I'm gonna have fun while I'm doing it or you're gonna be miserable." And he just, uh, he didn't, he couldn't get that and, and, uh, so I didn't play a lot.

Uh, but I was first rookie in the AHL to get 50 goals somehow and, uh, and then, you know, obviously the next year I b- I'm on the Calgary Flames and Bob Johnson passes away that summer at Canada Cup.

And they named Terry Crisp the head coach of the Flames.

And I'm like, "Oh, not this again." [laughs]

Longer than Ted Nolan.

Um, longer than Terry Crisp.

Uh, longer than Paul Terrio.

Um, what did John Dean do? He, he d- never got the Hounds past the second round of the playoffs.

And then my boss now, Bob Cole, back then he was the producer.

He just asked me one time, he said, hey, would you ever – you know, would you be okay or consider getting on the headset in the third period? And then you could just, you know, talk to the guys in the booth, Pete Weber and Terry Crisp, who are the OGs for the Preds.

And I'm like, heck yeah.

I'm like, sure, I'll do that.

Okay.

You know, we saw Terry Crisp.

We saw Mikke Kiprusoff at Peter Morris' funeral.

It was great, you know, to see those two-

That first class, rightfully so, David Poyl, Pecker, Rene, Shea Weber.

And then last year, our friends Pete Weber and Terry Crisp.

And Max, this time around, Trotsy going in.

I'd say this is a pretty easy one.

The way that they've scheduled these nights so far, it's been fun to line it up with an opposing team.

That has an attachment to the Hall inductees.

Last year, it was Preds versus Flames, the team that Terry Crisp coached to the Stanley Cup in 1989.

And this year, Barry Trotz will go in when the Preds play the Caps, the team that Trotz coached to the Stanley Cup in 2018.

Players who actually faced him remembered the hits more vividly than his statistics.

There was even a famous training camp story involving rookie Terry Crisp.

Crisp remembered coming through the middle, looking over his shoulder for the puck, and seeing freight train Boisvert bearing down on him and thinking, "I'm bleeping dead." Boisvert recognized the situation and let the young player go by untouched.

Uh, you know, a small story that also shows the control behind his physical game, right? He wasn't gonna cream his teammate.

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But then I just was, I was drafted by a team with a fucking nod head coach, Terry Crisp.

I'm like, "Oh my God."

How'd you like playing in Moncton? I didn't mind visiting Moncton, like when we were visitors.

So I don't get a primo row press box seat like Brooks does and the mainstream writers who sit there the entire game do.

I'm in the bottom right row and the one seat on the end that row is brent peterson's seat it's a good seat for him because he doesn't have to go up as many stairs and sometimes due to his parkinson's he did have trouble with that and did have to walk with a cane but also selfishly it led me into some amazing moments and conversations with brent and the last few years since he retired from his role on preds tv terry crisp has sat with us as well And when one or both of those guys are there, as you can imagine, it is old time hockey times a thousand.

And I experienced the same things you did, Brooks, like the respect from those guys who have cup rings, memorial cups, years and years of professional and amateur hockey playing and coaching experience.

And both of them were NHL players and coaches.

Three really important people to the Preds broadcast family have passed within the last year and a half.

Most recently, Brent Peterson.

During last season, Sheila Crisp, Terry Crisp's wife.

And now just over a year ago in summer 2025, Aaron Donick, Willie Donick's wife.