Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025 12:37 pm
The Ghost of Gus Kyle offers the following opinions on color commentary:
“Heh, heh, heh, that’s laying the old lumber on him, eh Dan?”
“We got a real barn burner at the Arena tonight!”
“Thursday we go to Boston to play the Broons.”
My neighbor was a school teacher and hated Gus Kyle’s pronunciation of Bruins! . And she said it often!
God love him, ol’ Gus could really fracture the King’s English. He was the Blues equivalent of Mike Shannon!
And don’t get me started about Noel Picard!
“Dat Bobby Gassoff, he real tough cookie. He shoot he skate he fight he do a lotta tings out dere. I don’ know what he do but he do a lotta tings!”
And his infamous mispronunciation of our owner’s son, Sidney Salomon III:
“Sid da Turd”
Thanks for the memories. Loved Gus Kyle and Noel Picard.
Saw my first hockey game in February of 1968, first Stanley Cup playoff against the Bruins in 1970 (the one Plante took a shot right on the mask), so I grew up and learned hockey from DK and the color guys. I wish they had kept JK, unfortunately they didn’t, but I’ll still watch and listen. Blues hockey is way too important to me to do anything else.
But why I replied was to share a letter that my Dad sent to Gus Kyle about one of his pronunciations. It simply said this and nothing more: “ Phil Roberto is pronounced Phil Rober-toe”.
Don’t recall if he ever corrected himself, but I thought it was cool that Dad let him know. As a first generation Italian American, it bugged the (bleep) out him every time Gus said “Roberta”.
Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025 12:37 pm
The Ghost of Gus Kyle offers the following opinions on color commentary:
“Heh, heh, heh, that’s laying the old lumber on him, eh Dan?”
“We got a real barn burner at the Arena tonight!”
“Thursday we go to Boston to play the Broons.”
My neighbor was a school teacher and hated Gus Kyle’s pronunciation of Bruins! . And she said it often!
God love him, ol’ Gus could really fracture the King’s English. He was the Blues equivalent of Mike Shannon!
And don’t get me started about Noel Picard!
“Dat Bobby Gassoff, he real tough cookie. He shoot he skate he fight he do a lotta tings out dere. I don’ know what he do but he do a lotta tings!”
And his infamous mispronunciation of our owner’s son, Sidney Salomon III:
“Sid da Turd”
Thanks for the memories. Loved Gus Kyle and Noel Picard.
Me too, but I’ll bet Dan Kelly’s eyes rolled when those two went off the tracks with some of their colorful sayings! Just like Jack Buck’s eyes probably rolled on some Shannonisms!
Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2025 12:37 pm
The Ghost of Gus Kyle offers the following opinions on color commentary:
“Heh, heh, heh, that’s laying the old lumber on him, eh Dan?”
“We got a real barn burner at the Arena tonight!”
“Thursday we go to Boston to play the Broons.”
My neighbor was a school teacher and hated Gus Kyle’s pronunciation of Bruins! . And she said it often!
God love him, ol’ Gus could really fracture the King’s English. He was the Blues equivalent of Mike Shannon!
And don’t get me started about Noel Picard!
“Dat Bobby Gassoff, he real tough cookie. He shoot he skate he fight he do a lotta tings out dere. I don’ know what he do but he do a lotta tings!”
And his infamous mispronunciation of our owner’s son, Sidney Salomon III:
“Sid da Turd”
Thanks for the memories. Loved Gus Kyle and Noel Picard.
Saw my first hockey game in February of 1968, first Stanley Cup playoff against the Bruins in 1970 (the one Plante took a shot right on the mask), so I grew up and learned hockey from DK and the color guys. I wish they had kept JK, unfortunately they didn’t, but I’ll still watch and listen. Blues hockey is way too important to me to do anything else.
But why I replied was to share a letter that my Dad sent to Gus Kyle about one of his pronunciations. It simply said this and nothing more: “ Phil Roberto is pronounced Phil Rober-toe”.
Don’t recall if he ever corrected himself, but I thought it was cool that Dad let him know. As a first generation Italian American, it bugged the (bleep) out him every time Gus said “Roberta”.
Hi GuitarMan!
I was at Game 1 of the 1970 Finals as well. My high school buddy and me stood in line for a LONG time at The Arena parking lot to buy those tickets. (Calling MI-4-0900 was useless - always got a busy signal) I was in the first row of the Upper Circle (good seats) at the blue line in Plante’s end of the rink so I got a good view of Stanfield’s shot that hit Plante. I was afraid Plante was dead the way he collapsed! As you know, we lost that game 6-1. The other thing I remember that was a bummer was that was a Sunday afternoon game and it was quite hot outside after the game was over while trying to get through traffic in my un-air conditioned Ford Fairlane.
. And she said it often!
