Far fetched, but plausible.   The Canadian Communications Foundation entry indicates CFRB and CBL were stations that carried Foster Hewitt broadcasts....that would have meant CFRX Short Wave - the SW relay of CFRB.  There were many years ago, various CBC short wave (domestic) stations.  Given Marv's age, he might have been a SW listener.  If he lived in NYC, reception of Canadian stations on AM might have been difficult do to co-channel allocations on AM. As a kid I listened to CFCF 600's shortwave station.  Would Danny G have been on CFCF and its SW relay for hockey broadcasts of the Habs?  here's the quote from the CCF entry:

The host of the General Motors Hockey Broadcasts was Gordon Calder. The play-by-play announcer was Foster Hewitt; his colour man was Perc Lesueur, the great goal-keeper of the legendary Ottawa Senators who introduced the "shots-on-goal" tally. 'The Hot Stove League" was still years away, and between periods, radio listeners were entertained by the Luigi Romanelli Orchestra playing for dancers at Toronto's Silver Slipper. When the CBC began operating in the fall of 1936, MacLaren's had to use the CBC's network.CFRB was not a CBC Network station, but for a number of years, the broadcasts were heard over both CBL and CFRB in Toronto.

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