Paul Bissonnette and Anson Carter on covering former NHL on TNT colleague Rick Tocchet: ‘It’s been easy to pump his tires.’
Carter talked how ex-colleague Tocchet understands the media business, while Bissonnette noted how good his team's been.
Carter talked how ex-colleague Tocchet understands the media business, while Bissonnette noted how good his team's been.
"I have no doubt that the best league in the world will thrive in its return to Metro Atlanta."
Bissonnette had previously said "I do the farm noises, the legends don't."
"I think we had fun with it. Every week that Toc was there, it was like 'Oh, look who's still here!'"
"So that's what the relationship with me and Anson is, I'm not on an island when I'm on that set. And I owe him a lot when it comes to that."
Gretzky is set to increase his NHL on TNT appearances around the Winter Classic and the run to the playoffs. But he's had an impact on his coworkers in his appearances so far.
After years of talking about hockey on Turner NBA broadcasts and other NHL broadcasts, Charles Barkley now gets to discuss the NHL on TNT.
"Maybe the conversation could have drifted a little bit further, been, in my opinion, a little more entertaining and a little bit less about the Xs and Os of the hockey game and a little bit more about the personalities and the people. I'm not saying that was always the case, but it definitely did occur."
We now have the next wave of names we'll see on national NHL broadcasts this fall.