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July 7, 2021 9:43 pm  #1


Stanley Cup & Grey Cup announcers

There's ARGUABLY two big events when it comes to the Canadian sports TV calendar. The NHL & CFL championships

I'm trying to think of another announcer that has called a Stanley Cup Final and Grey Cup, aside from Chris Cuthbert.

The list of HNIC #1 announcers is pretty short - the Hewitts, Gallivan, Cole, Hughson - but I don't think they did much football.
Don Whitman was the voice of the CFL for years, but I don't recall him ever doing past a Campbell Conference Final.  John Wells was mostly a host for HNIC.

Unless there's someone from CTV that called the Grey Cup when both CBC & CTV had the game and then worked those couple of weird years in the 80's when CTV did some of the Stanley Cup games, but I seem to recall they usually brought Dan Kelly in for that.  Ron Reusch might be the only possible name, but again I don't recall him doing play by play on a Stanley Cup.

If so, congratulations to Chris on the Canadian Broadcasting milestone.   If not, I'd love to hear who I'm not thinking of.

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July 7, 2021 11:19 pm  #2


Re: Stanley Cup & Grey Cup announcers

Don Wittman did Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final in 1986, and of course plenty of Grey Cups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stanley_Cup_Finals_broadcasters#Canadian_television_(English)




 


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July 8, 2021 12:21 am  #3


Re: Stanley Cup & Grey Cup announcers

Dale Patterson wrote:

Don Wittman did Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final in 1986, and of course plenty of Grey Cups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stanley_Cup_Finals_broadcasters#Canadian_television_(English)




 

Aha!  Thanks Dale.

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