26CornerBlitz Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @mirtle The @HockeyHallFame announces Harry Neale will receive the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X. Benedict Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @mirtle The @HockeyHallFame announces Harry Neale will receive the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award this year. That's nice. Harry deserves it. He was great for many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @mirtle The @HockeyHallFame announces Harry Neale will receive the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award this year. Good for Harry, but I still can't understand a word he says. Sounds like he has a bunch of marbles in his yapper all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Doing some looking around about Foster Hewitt. Found this http://www.cbc.ca/player/Sports/Digital%2BArchives/Hockey/ID/1581047458/ Interesting video from way back about the gondola he would broadcast from. • For the first three years he broadcast Maple Leaf games, Hewitt was perched in the rafters of the Mutual Street Arena. When Conn Smythe built Maple Leaf Gardens, he gave Foster Hewitt Productions exclusive broadcasting rights not just to hockey but to all events held at the facility. Hewitt even arranged for all advertising himself, keeping an undisclosed percentage. • While the Gardens was being built, Hewitt started planning his new broadcasting location. He and a building contractor spent an afternoon checking out every floor of the nearby 20-storey Eaton's building. He decided that the fifth floor was the best position from which to watch pedestrians on the street below, and decided the broadcast booth should be the same height. • The first season at the Gardens was sponsored exclusively by General Motors. According to Scott Young's Hello Canada! The Life and Times of Foster Hewitt, the gondola got its name from C.M. Passmore, who had arranged the GM sponsorship. When the advertising executive first saw Hewitt's broadcasting booth, which resembled a long, suspended tube, he remarked, "It looks just like the gondola on an airship." Hewitt soon began using the name in his broadcasts. • When first constructed, the gondola could only be reached by a catwalk that had no guardrails. Then there was an almost vertical ladder to descend to the gondola, which was suspended some 20 metres above the ice. • From the gondola, Hewitt's play-by-play was transmitted over telegraph lines to radio stations in Ontario and then across the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted June 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @BuffaloSabres 2m Harry Neale discusses his Foster Hewitt Award announcement with members of the Buffalo media. pic.twitter.com/OoVTpsPS5C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJFIVEOH Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Good for Harry, I like him. I'll never understand the negative comments he gets on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X. Benedict Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Good for Harry, I like him. I'll never understand the negative comments he gets on here. HIs best days were behind him by the time he arrived here. But I always liked him. HNIC he was great with Bob Cole - they were the best in sports IMO. Better than Summerall and Madden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted June 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @BuffaloSabres "I was glad I was by myself when I heard the news."-Harry Neale talking about his emotions after finding out he'd won Foster Hewitt Award. @BillHoppeNHL Harry Neale was very reflective, grateful, funny and emotional. Began breaking down at the end. #Sabres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwksndmonster Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Great guy. Heart's in the right place and he's got a good sense of humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJFIVEOH Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 HIs best days were behind him by the time he arrived here. But I always liked him. HNIC he was great with Bob Cole - they were the best in sports IMO. Better than Summerall and Madden. No doubt he's slipping a little bit, but I'd take Harry on a bad day over most of the other wanna-bes out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted June 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @BillHoppeNHL Harry Neale: "To go in the year after Jeanneret doubles the pleasure because I know how thrilled how he was." #Sabres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Dwight Drane Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 HIs best days were behind him by the time he arrived here. But I always liked him. HNIC he was great with Bob Cole - they were the best in sports IMO. Better than Summerall and Madden. Amen....although he has always been a common sense guy, and had to endure the likes of Roysie, Connolly, Pommers, etc. I am pretty sure about 30 games into his stint here he wanted to run far away. RJ is always the Homer....Neale would want to call it as he saw it, but at the same time would not want to bury his partner. By definition....he had to start his own retirement early because he would flip his lid if he had to take the Sabres gig seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Much deserving and all class. I'm glad he came to work with us, and he's in the perfect role right now- hilarious intermission stories about the old days with Grampa Neale. Highlights: 2:00 mark-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siaFbm6WvvM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlueGED Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 I never really watched HNIC, but I have no idea how anyone could think he's been good with the Sabres. He's nothing short of awful...give me Lorentz any day. In full disclosure I also thought Summerall and Madden were flat out bad, so maybe it's me that's the problem :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwksndmonster Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Amen....although he has always been a common sense guy, and had to endure the likes of Roysie, Connolly, Pommers, etc. I am pretty sure about 30 games into his stint here he wanted to run far away. RJ is always the Homer....Neale would want to call it as he saw it, but at the same time would not want to bury his partner. By definition....he had to start his own retirement early because he would flip his lid if he had to take the Sabres gig seriously. You know he called Leafs games before he called Sabres games. Saying Neale isn't a homer is like saying Physics isn't a nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted June 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 @BuffaloSabres VIDEO: Sabres TV's Brian Duff talks to Harry Neale about the news of his Foster Hewitt Award - http://tinyurl.com/otq2q2j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Amen....although he has always been a common sense guy, and had to endure the likes of Roysie, Connolly, Pommers, etc. I am pretty sure about 30 games into his stint here he wanted to run far away. RJ is always the Homer....Neale would want to call it as he saw it, but at the same time would not want to bury his partner. By definition....he had to start his own retirement early because he would flip his lid if he had to take the Sabres gig seriously. What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Dwight Drane Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 What? I mean when he was actively broadcasting.....I'm sure if you asked Harry in private what he thought about the team, he may not have talked too glowingly about them. He signed on for 82 games of wussbag hockey per year. I don't know this for a fact, but I just see Harry asking himself, "WTF did I just do?" by game 20 of 2007....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunomatic Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 Good for Harry. He's put in a lot of years promoting the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 I mean when he was actively broadcasting.....I'm sure if you asked Harry in private what he thought about the team, he may not have talked too glowingly about them. He signed on for 82 games of wussbag hockey per year. I don't know this for a fact, but I just see Harry asking himself, "WTF did I just do?" by game 20 of 2007....... I like him, but you're right, Harry has been Buffalo's Walmart greeter. Here's my favorite memory of him. When I hear him laugh every time Mair sucker punches the guy, it makes me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 I also want to say, It's amazing how many clips of historic games or plays his voice is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted June 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 (WGR Interview) Harry Neale Given the Highest Honor for Hockey Broadcasters: http://www.wgr550.co...ntentId=6414961 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Dance Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 I have tons of respect and admiration for Harry - he was a coach and GM in the league for years and a top-notch color man for years on HNIC. If you heard him with Bob Cole on HNIC, remember that this was the BIG time. Saturday nights broadcasting Canada'a national sport to the entire country - a lot of pressure to be good. Of course, he also had a week to prepare for the game, so he could come up with stats, stories, player background, etc. ahead of time. With the Sabres, he was basically semi-retired and doing several games a week. That plus his age surely brought his performance down a smidge. Yes, I was a huge fan of Lorentz as well, but Harry is still pretty awesome and certainly deserving of the award. Now that the Sabres have two current award-winning broadcasters on staff, perhaps they can try to improve the team in order to get it's level of performance up to those of RJ and Harry.... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 I don't care how bad some of you think he may be in his twilight, this is a guy you want to have around: The native of Sarnia, Ont., has lived in Amherst for almost two decades.“Once I found out you could get 30 beers for $18.95, I moved here very quickly from Toronto,” Neale said. Perfect role for him is intermission story time guy. Hope he stays for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted June 12, 2013 Report Share Posted June 12, 2013 Ray was worse. He made no sense for most of the season. Why are we subjected to this in Hockey Heaven? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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