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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.
NHL analyst Anson Carter-led group wants to bring NHL expansion team to Atlanta
"I have no doubt that the best league in the world will thrive in its return to Metro Atlanta."
Paul Bissonnette tried to get Wayne Gretzky to meow on TNT
Bissonnette had previously said "I do the farm noises, the legends don't."
NHL on TNT crew talk mid-season moving on from Rick Tocchet: ‘We knew this was a possibility.’
"I think we had fun with it. Every week that Toc was there, it was like 'Oh, look who's still here!'"
Once traded for each other, Rick Tocchet and Anson Carter are enjoying being NHL on TNT teammates
"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."
While Wayne Gretzky has a “limited number of on-air appearances,” he’s still making an impact on his NHL on TNT coworkers
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.
Charles Barkley will join the first regular-season NHL on TNT pre-game show, which will be commercial-free
After years of talking about hockey on Turner NBA broadcasts and other NHL broadcasts, Charles Barkley now gets to discuss the NHL on TNT.
NHL on TNT host Liam McHugh said he “self-edited” at NBC: “Maybe the conversation could have drifted a little further.”
"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."
ESPN is set to add Kevin Weekes, AJ Mleczko Griswold and Ryan Callahan to NHL coverage, with Turner adding Anson Carter
We now have the next wave of names we'll see on national NHL broadcasts this fall.