Brendan Berube

[Brendan Berube @brendanberube]

@SweeterDreams5 @resaleTOhomes @MaritStiles Lmaooo that’s clearly a conspiracy theory. If you believe that you must believe the world ended in 2012 as well.

[Brendan Berube @brendanberube]

@SweeterDreams5 @resaleTOhomes @MaritStiles Trump endorsed Carney because he thought Canadian’s hated Trump so much that if he endorsed Carney people would vote for that scum Poilievre just to spite Trump. It didn’t work. Listen I don’t like Carney either but there is no more corrupt politician in Canada the Dougie Ford.

[Brendan Berube @brendanberube]

@SweeterDreams5 @resaleTOhomes @MaritStiles If anything Ford is acting like Trump.

[Brendan Berube @brendanberube]

@resaleTOhomes @MaritStiles It says from April 2024 to March 2025. The tariff adds ran in the fall.

[SaudiBoi @notSaudiBoi]

nyc smoke event was lit

[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-

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

End of an era for @TSNBobMcKenzie, as we celebrate his retirement in his last #FreeAgentFrenzy on TSN.

[Thomas Daigle @thomasdaigle]

This guy is standing outside TD Garden in Boston ahead of the Canada/USA hockey game…

[culture jpeg @culturejpg]

"Love is good, spread love" - Mac Miller

[Brendan Berube @brendanberube]

@AelaMusic @uskokatwit @raghu_venugopal That doesn’t make any sense. You’re completely misinformed. They do not provide drugs at a safe consumption site, they give you a clean and safe space to use and have someone there to monitor you to make sure you don’t overdose.

[Brendan Berube @brendanberube]

@AelaMusic @uskokatwit @raghu_venugopal By that logic close all the bars and make alcohol illegal.

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

Can we get an interactive map of where people can find a family doctor?

[LilHumansBigImpact @BigImpactHumans]

This older gentleman with his shirt off has a great message that I think everyone should hear.

“Every hundred years, there’s all new people…”

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

No matter what happens in this series, when my grand children ask me what the 2024 Stanley cup final was like.. I’m gonna look them dead in the eye and say “Oilers and big fuckin tits”

[Jim Norton @JimNorton]

I wish people were this angry when Jack Daniels or Bud Light caused someone to plow their car into a family using a crosswalk.

[feitelberg @FeitsBarstool]

Little kid who played in the mite intermission game was interviewed after said his fav part of hockey was the rebounds. Never heard that answer but love it. You want bread you go to the bakery, want money you go to the bank, want goals you go to the net.

[knox @showponyboyx]

you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself yell “shoot” during the power play

[Tony X @soIoucity]

my goal in life is to be so bad at something that i get paid millions of dollars to never do it again.

[Benny 'The Pole' Rollins @citizenkawala]

I might stop paying attention to the world and just wait for the movie.