Oh baby! Legendary broadcaster Bob Cole set to make one final call - Global News

Bob Cole still remembers the butterflies flapping in his stomach as he walked into the old Boston Garden in the spring of 1969.Calling games for “Hockey Night in Canada” was his dream. This was the opportunity, one he wasn’t about to let pass him by.Story continues below“Nervous as heck,” Cole recalled this week. “It was radio on the CBC network. Playoffs. It was something I always wanted to do. Now you’re asked to step up and you’re front and centre. If you’ve never done something like this, it’s hard to understand — you really wanted to do it, and here you are given a chance.“You better do it. It’s a crazy world, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”A half century later, the legendary play-by-play man — the iconic voice millions of viewers in this country associate with hockey — will hang up his microphone after calling Saturday’s regular-season finale between the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens.READ MORE: Maple Leafs honour sports broadcaster Bob Cole during Senators gameWATCH: Toronto pays tribute to legendary broadcaster Bob Cole


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April 06, 2019 at 08:39PM