Bronson Goodfellow

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@CanadasLeafs It’s Oban 14 and keep the change

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@JFreshHockey Rasmus Andersson

[Champagne Athletics @champletics]

Alex Delvecchio | 12.4.31 - 7.1.25

- Whole career, 24 seasons with #LGRW
- Cups: 1952, 1954, and 1955
- 12 year captain
- Missed only 43 games
- 548 consecutive games played from 1956 to 1964
- 1,549 games total
- 456 goals, 825 assists, 1,281 points
- 3x Lady Byng
- #10 retired by Wings
- Statue built in his honor
- Hockey Hall of Fame

Rest in peace to a Detroit Red Wings legend.

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

🫡Happy Canada Day retirement to a great one 🇨🇦

[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-

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@jendog_18 So sick

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@Tuna1314 https://t.co/QRhMxU0K8E

Great turn to open this scene too

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@JeffMarek Really hope you land somewhere we can hear your takes, Jeff; hockey and otherwise. There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of hockey media...Jeff Marek!

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@ryanwhitney6 Aw shucks

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@theneedledrop Echoes - Pink Floyd

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@Brock_Seguin I can’t believe that, what a farce

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@JeffMarek “What if we painted the green monster blue? Blue ice in the hockey arenas, blue monster in Fenway, total chaos”

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@Tuna1314 Merry Christmas 🦆🦆

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@RylanSalmon @DimFilipovic I was about to send this to you lol

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@Burgasaurus @MattWaldman Tony pollard is going to end the slander by putting Zeke on the bench

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@iyer_prashanth Who are you hoping for?

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@thealexblair @HockeyCanada Lol so awesome take then, anything else you want to ignorantly be outraged about?

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@stephen_burtch Hughes played 68 games...it was tightly contested for a large part of that year.

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@stephen_burtch Point being I don't think people are as biased towards Seider this year as you're saying especially over any other year

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@stephen_burtch Hughes lost to 21 y/o Makar after a tight race and Kubalik ended with 1 point less than Bunting has rn at same games played and was a distant 3rd

[Bronson Goodfellow @bronsgoodfellow]

@stephen_burtch The fact that there aren't many situations to draw from leads me to believe it was less handed to him than he earned it and the abnormality lessens the virtuality as you say that any nhl D (I assume you mean 20 year old NHL D) would pick up secondary assists.