Nuxfanabroad Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Tremendous read. God bless Cheech. Classic throwback with a fine, self-deprecatory sense of humour. Love John & John on the call. Is there any broadcast duo you'd rather say, shoot 18 & enjoy a beer with, at the 19th? Today's Van Sun has a brilliant MacIntyre article, about how Cheech almost won the car in 1983. A skinny young C from Edmonchuk loused that plan. I remember this game vividly..the late Pelle Lindbergh got lit up badly, with Gretz scoring 4 in the 3rd. Highly recommend this one. http://vancouversun.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/iain-macintyre-one-game-canuck-cheech-garretts-all-star-game-nod-nearly-an-mvp-turn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, Nuxfanabroad said: Tremendous read. God bless Cheech. Classic throwback with a fine, self-deprecatory sense of humour. Love John & John on the call. Is there any broadcast duo you'd rather say, shoot 18 & enjoy a beer with, at the 19th? Today's Van Sun has a brilliant MacIntyre article, about how Cheech almost won the car in 1983. A skinny young C from Edmonchuk loused that plan. I remember this game vividly..the late Pelle Lindbergh got lit up badly, with Gretz scoring 4 in the 3rd. Highly recommend this one. Link or it never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted January 27, 2017 Author Share Posted January 27, 2017 Missing link :^) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 http://vancouversun.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/iain-macintyre-one-game-canuck-cheech-garretts-all-star-game-nod-nearly-an-mvp-turn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Always liked listening to Garrett's stories. Is the perhaps the biggest Canuck homer? What's wrong with that? http://hockey-time-machine.tumblr.com/post/82193625335/i-had-the-trainer-get-me-a-hot-dog-john-garrett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Marchand Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Damn Gretzky always ruining it for everyone lmao. Even after first hearing this story nearly ten years ago, it still cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 I don't think Garrett is a homer. He's a realist and speaks his mind freely. Most honest man on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabinessence Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Very interesting things about that is Ron Delorme is also pictured in the article, but not mentioned in the caption. Another thing to think about - Boston beat Vancouver hat game 5-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darnucks Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 53 minutes ago, apollo said: I don't think Garrett is a homer. He's a realist and speaks his mind freely. Most honest man on TV. 100% agree. Anyone who thinks he's a homer, obviously has not listened to a home broadcast for the Oilers, Leafs, Bruins, Penguins and on and on it goes. Garret has ripped into the Canucks numerous times. Plus who else in the league makes you want to get up and get something to eat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Garret is one of the biggest homers around. You know what though? I can't really think of anything wrong with having a homer calling your games. He should support the team. Plus, Garret isn't afraid to give credit where credit is due to the other team either. I've certainly never heard him call another team's player a "lowlife" anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt kilgore Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 8 minutes ago, HerrDrFunk said: Garret is one of the biggest homers around. You know what though? I can't really think of anything wrong with having a homer calling your games. He should support the team. Plus, Garret isn't afraid to give credit where credit is due to the other team either. I've certainly never heard him call another team's player a "lowlife" anyway. Agreed I've never understood the criticism about colour guys that call the game from the teams and fans point of view. That's your audience for petes sake! Play by play is different but I don't want some dry mouthed PC 'balanced' colour guy. I want someone that reflects how I feel when I'm watching - which is biased as #%&#! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Building Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I don't have a problem with Cheech being out colour guy. Honestly the only thing people really have to complain about is his listing off of his favourite crappy snacks and how much he loves ketchup. If he's a homer he's an even keel one because as mentioned by another poster, he rips on the Canucks when they deserve it. Quote Of the 576 men who have played for the Vancouver Canucks, only 30 have been to a National Hockey League All-Star Game. And of these, only John Garrett did so after starting just once for the team he represented. That Garrett, a journeyman goalie whose 13-year career ended with the Canucks, also stared down a pile of future Hall of Famers in the 1983 showcase and came within a Wayne Gretzky of driving home in a supercool Pontiac Firebird as the All-Star Game MVP made his appearance even more remarkable. “I walked into the dressing room and it was like: ‘How did you get here? Air Canada, I guess,’ ” Garrett recalled this week. “I had jokingly said to the Canuck guys that if I won the car, we’d split it up. And for a while it looked like I might. It was one of those muscle-car Firebirds with the eagle on the hood. Black with the gold. “I enjoyed the moment. I knew I was on the back nine (in my career) and here I was playing with all these stars. And now they’re all in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It’s crazy.” This weekend in Los Angeles, Bo Horvat becomes Vancouver Canuck all-star No. 31. Garrett was the incredibly improbable 11th to represent the Canucks in the NHL mid-winter exhibition. Former Vancouver general manager Harry Neale traded Anders Eldebrink to acquire Garrett from the Quebec Nordiques on Friday, Feb. 4, 1983. On the Saturday night, Canucks starting goalie Richard Brodeur ruptured his eardrum when hit by a slapshot in Toronto. The next night the Canucks played in New Jersey. And one road game two nights after that, on Feb. 8, before ever playing for the Canucks in Vancouver, Garrett was the team’s all-star representative and the winning goalie when the Campbell Conference beat the Wales Conference 9-3 in Uniondale, N.Y. Garrett’s teammates on the Campbell team — before the league renamed its conferences by geography — included Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Marcel Dionne, Lanny McDonald and Denis Savard. The Wales roster featured Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Dennis Potvin, Peter Stastny, Darryl Sittler, Ron Francis and Ray Bourque. Garrett played in the game because Brodeur had been the only Canuck selected, and one of just two goalies for the Campbells. Back then, each NHL team had to be represented in the game, so officials had little choice but to ask Garrett to stand in for Brodeur, who had led the Canucks to the Stanley Cup Final the previous spring. Garrett replaced Murray Bannerman as the Campbell goalie halfway through the Tuesday night game and the score tied 2-2. “They have a few good chances in the last 10 minutes of the second period and I didn’t let anything in,” Garrett, now 65, said. “We start the third period and as I’m making saves, Lanny McDonald comes by and says: ‘You’ve got a chance to win this car.’ I had played at the world championships with Lanny in 1981 and we got to be good friends. I make a few more saves and we score a goal, and every stoppage Lanny is saying: ‘You’ve got the front tires. Now you’ve got the steering wheel.’ So this Cinderella story is developing: What the hell is this guy doing here? But I’m it (for MVP candidates). I was the guy. And then Gretz comes out and scores a goal. Lanny says: ‘Oh-oh, you better start to worry.’ Sure enough, next shift, Gretz scores again. He ended up he got four goals in the third period and won the car. “I think he gave it to his uncle or something because Wayne had already won about 13 cars.” Garrett, the Canucks’ long-time television analyst whose disarming style and amiable banter with play-by-play partner John Shorthouse make the team’s broadcasts always watchable, is far more interesting than you probably know. He was a star in the old World Hockey Association in the 1970s, then transitioned to the NHL with the Hartford Whalers after the league absorbed the WHA in 1979. In the NHL, Garrett was the solid, good-guy backup every team wants, moving to the Nordiques, then the Canucks before retiring in 1986.One of his more notable Canuck moments was Mario Lemieux’s first home game in the NHL, when Garrett jumped the Marvellous One after the second-greatest player in history attacked Canuck Gary Lupul in Pittsburgh.“I was chirping him,” Garrett said. “ ‘You’ll never make it in this league. You’re nothing but a goon. Anybody can score in that Quebec League.’ Mario still giggles about it.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 & on Shorty, I've heard the Kermit comparing-criticism, & damn if it ain't true..but you can't fault a guy if his voice ain't precisely-perfect. However his pace & modulation is pretty damn good for puck pbp. I'd rate him darn good. During play he notices(& anticipates) what announcers ought to. He lays out all within that game/season & particular team's historical-context; & delivers all this in an engaging, compelling manner. Cheech complements this nicely, with the viewpoint of an added generation, that truly understood the "grind" of an NHL career. Both in the top league, & a rival, start-up league, as well. A perfect discerning eye, always in search of the humourous. A little like Larscheid, if TL had played his career as a hockey-grinder. After following the game for about 4 decades, I'd have to say Van's been blessed with the voices & personalities that have always shaped the narrative, at pretty much the highest level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
189lb enforcers? Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 He's a homer and I love him for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 2 hours ago, NewbieCanuckFan said: Always liked listening to Garrett's stories. Is the perhaps the biggest Canuck homer? What's wrong with that? http://hockey-time-machine.tumblr.com/post/82193625335/i-had-the-trainer-get-me-a-hot-dog-john-garrett This market could stand to have a couple more homers to balance against all the self-loathing and the trolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 2 hours ago, apollo said: I don't think Garrett is a homer. He's a realist and speaks his mind freely. Most honest man on TV. yeah, he's no Jack Edwards, that's for sure. He likes his team, no doubt, but he knows when we suck, he knows when we get a lucky call, and he isn't shy about calling out b.s against us either. I just wish he'd talk about food more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 1 hour ago, oldnews said: yeah, he's no Jack Edwards, that's for sure. He likes his team, no doubt, but he knows when we suck, he knows when we get a lucky call, and he isn't shy about calling out b.s against us either. I just wish he'd talk about food more. All I ask for is one more Kraft "horrible dressings" situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePeaceAwakens Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 If i could I would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Great story, and he was a better goalie than he gets credit for. Was a 1st team WHA All Star as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Great article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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