‘This is about hockey, however, which is much more important than football, at least to many of us. Yet your idiotic disagreement over how much one side can soak out of the other means a blue screen where once Kevin Sylvester, Rob Ray, Mike Robitaille, Rick Jeanneret and Harry Neale gave us the lowdown and play by play. These guys know hockey and it is a joy to listen to them call a game, even when it results in a loss. In addition, there are unexpected gems, like the night Robie recalled his childhood, and how he and his brothers would kill rats in the basement of their home with hockey sticks. It went on for at least five minutes. I don’t think I ever laughed so hard.’