Bob McKenzie: The NHL’s Ultimate Insider on the Draft, Twitter, Booze, Career Choices, and State of the League

On the day when Bob McKenzie arrived in Calgary to cover Team Canada’s camp for World Juniors AND launched his Bobby Margarita beverage brand, he still graciously found time for Hockey Press Pass. In this episode, Bob looks back on his Hall of Fame career as the game’s top newsbreaker and shares a personal and impassioned view on where he’d like to see the NHL improve.

Highlights include…

· Bob names his three all-time favorite NHL players

· His dream of becoming a beat writer, but turning into the ultimate insider

· One of his greatest innovations: the NHL Draft Issue

· Why he made the strategic decision to join Twitter, and how it radically altered his career – for better and worse

· Bob’s decision to stay at TSN when Sportsnet acquired all of the NHL’s national rights, and hi ...