Carson Perry

[Pro Motocross @ProMotocross]

THE BATTLE WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR 💥

Haiden and Jett begin to scrap it out while moving through the pack!

@MonsterEnergy 450 Moto 1 LIVE fueled by @StaterBrosMkts 🎥

#ProMotocross #SMX

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

If I’m on the oilers I’m actually dying to lose and go on vacation. We played enough puck over the last few years. The west is stacked. Let’s have a longer summer and then try to get the cup another year. Like enough is enough I’m tired. I wanna go to Croatia. I wanna just chill.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

MITCH MARNER SENDS CANADA TO THE SEMIFINALS!!

[Paul Bissonnette @BizNasty2point0]

Suck my hog line @BarstoolBigCat. 🇨🇦

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

BOUCH COMPLETES HIS FIRST HATTY

Just the seventh by an Oilers defenceman in franchise history, and the first since Marc-Andre Bergeron in 2006 🎩 🎩 🎩

[Mark Hebscher @Hebsyman]

TSN's Mike Johnson is so good as a game analyst it isn't even funny. Clear, concise and usually right about an upcoming call by the officials. Stellar work. #WorldJuniors2025

[Jay Rosehill @Jay_D_Rosehill]

McKenna’s officially not going 1st overall anymore…

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

CONNOR MCDAVID HAS RE-SIGNED WITH THE EDMONTON OILERS 🚨🚨🚨

[Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC]

We are trending towards a Connor McDavid extension today

[Chris Johnston @reporterchris]

Connor McDavid says he still wants to take his time before working on a contract extension with the Oilers.

"I have every intention to win in Edmonton."

[Eric Friesen 🏒 @EricJFriesen]

My 2025-26 #Oilers opening night lineup:

Howard - McDavid - Hyman
Mangiapane - Draisaitl - Savoie
Frederic - RNH - Podkolzin
Janmark - Henrique - Kapanen

Ekholm - Bouchard
Nurse - Walman
Kulak - Emberson

Skinner
Pickard

[zach @zjlaing]

love a good wedding cig

[Fore Play @ForePlayPod]

Playing slow then running your mouth at a former NHL player.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. @spittinchiclets

[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-

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

HAPPY CANADA DAY 🇨🇦

[World Hockey Report @worldhockeyrpt]

One of the greatest intro’s ever.

[Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn]

This West final may have been the purest Gentleman's Sweep I've ever seen in my life. Oilers literally give away the first one, then kicked the absolute shit out Dallas for the next four straight

[NHL @NHL]

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins this Conference Finals:

-2 goals
-9 points
-Multiple points in all 4 games

He's been fantastic. 🔥 #StanleyCup

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Don’t ask these guys if the Oilers can play defence 😂

[Big Head Hockey @bigheadhcky]

Everyone with 2+ points/game and a +5 rating in a single Conference Finals, salary cap era:

— Evgeni Malkin (2009)
— Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (2025)

This is becoming the series of Nuge's career.