Celebrities

BOB COLE

A front-line player on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada for 36 years, Bob Cole was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996 and has been honoured with the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for excellence in hockey broadcasting. Cole began as an announcer and newsreader in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1956. The road
to Hockey Night in Canada began on radio in 1969. In 1973, Bob was asked to join Hockey Night in Canada. When Bill Hewitt retired, Cole became the Toronto-based play-by-play announcer for HNIC. In 1985, Cole and game analyst Harry Neale joined
forces, and continue to be one of hockey’s strongest on-air teams.

ERIC LINDROS

Born February 28, 1973 in London Ontario, Lindros soon became nationally known for his scoring feats and physically domination of players. Throughout his junior career he was quickly given the nickname “The Next One” a refernece to Wayne Gretzky’s moniker “The Great One” He played parts of three seasons for the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) from 1990 to 1992. During that time, he scored 97 goals and had 119 assists in 95 games played. Lindros helped lead the Generals to the 1990 J. Ross Robertson Cup, and a 1990 Memorial Cup victory. During the 1990–91 OHL season, Lindros won the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as top scorer, the Red Tilson Trophy as MVP, the CHL Player of the Year award, and the CHL Top Draft Prospect Award.
Lindros started his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Flyers during the 1992–93 NHL season. Along with John LeClair and Mikael Renberg, he played on the "Legion of Doom" line. He scored over 40 goals in each of his first two seasons and won the Hart Trophy as MVP in the lockout-shortened season of 1995 by scoring 29 goals and 41 assists in 46 games. He led the Flyers to the Stanley Cup finals in 1997, handily defeating their three opponents along the way. The Flyers were overmatched against the Detroit Red Wings, however, and were swept in the series, with Lindros managing to score his only goal in the dying minutes of Game 4 to cut the score to 2-1. In 1998, Lindros, only 25 years old, was ranked number 54 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players of all time. The only player of comparable age was No. 37-ranked Jaromir Jagr, who was 26 at the time.
During his illustrious 13 year career he played a total of 8 years with Philadelphia, three with the New York Rangers and one with Toronto and Dallas respectively. Lindros was a prototypical power forward, and averaged more than a point per game.
In international play, Lindros represented Canada at the World Junior Championships three times (1990, 1991, and 1992), winning gold medals in 1990 and 1992. He has also represented Canada at the World Hockey Championships, leading the team in scoring at the 1993 tournament. In Olympic play, Lindros represented Canada three times (1992, 1998, and 2002), winning a silver medal in 1992 and a gold medal in 2002.

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MURRAY WILSON

Murray Wilson has been a popular guest at the Gallivan. A former Montreal Canadiens and Los Angeles Kings forward, Wilson became familiar to local fans with the AHL Nova Scotia Voyageurs in 1971-72, helping the Halifax-based club to a Calder Cup and later, becoming a member of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame with that team. In six years with Montreal, Wilson won four Stanley Cups. He retired in 1979 with 181 points to his credit, including 90 goals and 91 assists in 352 games. He now lives in Ottawa.