Weekend Hot Reads: Remembering the Voice

The TAMPA BAY TIMES goes with, "A cherished hockey voice is lost, but love affair with a game lasts." Longtime NHL broadcaster Bob Cole passed away on Wednesday at 90. His was the voice that "serenaded a nation every Saturday night for nearly half a century as a broadcaster for the immensely popular 'Hockey Night in Canada' program." One can "picture him as Howard Cosell on 'Monday Night Football,' except Cole’s reign lasted three times as long." Lightning coach Jon Cooper on Thursday following the team's loss to the Panthers in Game 3 of their first round Stanley Cup playoffs series said, "I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the passing of Bob Cole. I know it has nothing to do with this game, but it kind of does." Cooper: “The way he called games, the way he would say a player’s name, it was magical. I can’t really express what it meant to me. When it’s the only voice you’re hearing, you attach it to players and teams, and it becomes the voice of hockey for you.”

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