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Sid was feeling all the emotion looking back on the Penguins 2016 Cup run 🥹

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@DarrenDreger IMO they should have polled the draftees about this years draft. It was rigid and awkward, didn’t appear the kids enjoyed it. The day is about them, not the GM’s.

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@CanucksArmy Cody Hodgson

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@unlimited_ls A

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You’re a legend Bob! Thanks for being a part of my child and adulthood. Sharing the news in the magic that is hockey with precision. You’re a Canadian icon and will be missed!

Thanks for the memories!

[Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie]

The trade is one for none.

Which is to say I’m exchanging my semi-retired TSN life of the last five years — doing the World Junior Championships, NHL Draft Rankings, a handful of Toronto Maple Leaf broadcasts, TradeCentre and Free Agent Frenzy — for a fully-retired life of doing absolutely nothing.

Well, nothing work related anyway.

Today’s Free Agent Frenzy is the last working day in a 48-year professional career that included stops at The Sault Star, The Globe and Mail, The Hockey News (twice), The Toronto Star, TSN, ESPN and NBC, amongst others.

It’s been quite a ride.

I’ll be 69 years old in August. I decided a few months ago it’s as nice a time as any to call it a career with the expiry of my current contract. If I had been so inclined to continue doing the World Juniors and draft rankings etc. at TSN, the opportunity was certainly there for me to do so. And I’m so grateful to TSN for that.

Honestly, though, I am looking forward to waking up on Christmas morning this year and NOT flying to Minneapolis-St. Paul for the World Juniors.

I’m also looking forward to doing more travelling with my wife Cindy; having more time to give my sons Mike and Shawn unwanted (and unneeded) advice; playing even more golf than I am now; and having my two wonderful grandchildren Blake and Gunnar running my show on a full-time basis.

After almost 50 years in the business, there are far too many people to thank individually, so I won’t even try to name any lest I leave some out.

Just know that I’ve been blessed to work for, work with and work against so many great people who gave me boundless opportunity, incredible support and intense motivation. The nearly five decades have gone by in the blink of an eye.

I certainly never set out to be the TSN Hockey Insider. It never occurred to me that I would work in television. All I wanted to be when I grew up was a hockey writer, to have a “job” to watch, write and talk about the game. You know, tell a few stories and try to capture the spirit of the thing.

Mission accomplished, I guess.

I couldn’t say goodbye now without a special thanks to everyone at TSN, past and present.

I first started showing up on the network in or around 1986-87. In the 1990s, I was working full-time hours at TSN but still had a full time newspaper job, too. Since 2000, 25 years ago, TSN has been my primary professional home.

It’s been a very special place on so many levels. The best part of TSN has always been the people. The best people doing the best work. What an honour to be one small part of the unsurpassed excellence that is TSN. Every time I’ve walked out of Studio Six at the end of Free Agent Frenzy on July 1, I’ve said to myself: “It doesn’t get any better than that.”

And it doesn’t. That’s especially true on this Canada Day because I’m so very proud to be a Canadian. 🇨🇦

I’m a very lucky guy. I owe the game of hockey, and all the people within it — the players, coaches, managers, executives, scouts, agents et al — so much; I owe my family and friends even more. 

Finally, thank you to anyone who has ever read, watched or listened to any of my work in any form at any outlet over the last 48 years. It’s been a privilege to share some information with you all, and try to have a few laughs along the way on social media or whatever they’re calling it these days.

I’ve cherished it all.

Fully Completely.

✌️and 💕 

-30-

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@imacSportsnet @Sportsnet650 They have treated him like shit for years. Canucks luck out keeping him.

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@copperleaf22 Sportsnet pacific

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@THNFlynn Great glue guy

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@Nicksdolphins @reporterchris Police charged them, not the victim

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@hudec29 Time to get back in the game my dude, sports needs you

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@ZachZubrecki18 @worldhockeyrpt @SCBroncos Tracy wasn’t a fan of us messing up his drills.

[Paul Bissonnette @BizNasty2point0]

I’m changing my mind. Nothing against Nylander but I have to put my jock sniffing bias aside and call it how it is. It’s Elias world right now, we’re just living in it.

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@spookyghourl There’s a Facebook group, buy and sell Canucks tickets, I got really good tickets for cheap, maybe you’ll have good luck?

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@MikeGrinnell_ Honest question: At their peaks, considering age, who do you think will be the better Dman in the end.

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@Mk24466 @JJHoliday79 @TheAthleticNHL He has 16 points in 17 games in the playoffs. 😂

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@itsWozzz @89SGagner @hudec29

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@heatdaddy69420 College, Circa 2011 pre gaming with the boys and this absolute banger comes on:

https://t.co/rr0izrtuYh

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@DhaliwalSports @DonnieandDhali Had all the time for him, 100 percent every game. Good luck going forward Kyle.

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@DaBeautyLeague All of Canada really.

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@hudec29 @GreysonKnutson Tough loss big dog