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    As he promised himself when he first decided to go into broadcasting, he never got outworked. "I remember one time with the Devils doing a Stanley Cup Final game, Jacques Lemaire was the coach and New Jersey is historically a very closed group, but I called to be able to talk to Jacques because the fans need to know what he thinks ... I met him down at the Meadowlands in the mid-to-late afternoon and we went into a janitor's closet for 20 minutes smelling bleach and Clorox and we had a great conversation. Jacques is a very sharp hockey mind and it's enlightening to talk to him. You get those ideas and his thoughts and you move those on to the fans when you do the game." Contact Dan Rosen at drosennhl.com Nobody would have said boo if John Davidson stayed in the broadcast booth for the rest of his career in hockey. Full Article at National Hockey league | NHL.com
    I remember one time with the Devils doing a Stanley Cup Final game, Jacques Lemaire was the coach and New Jersey is historically a very closed group, but I called to be able to talk to Jacques because the fans need to know what he thinks ... I met him down at the Meadowlands in the mid-to-late afternoon and we went into a janitor's closet for 20 minutes smelling bleach and Clorox and we had a great conversation. Jacques is a very sharp hockey mind and it's enlightening to talk to him. You get those ideas and his thoughts and you move those on to the fans when you do the game.
    John Davidson – John Davidson SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
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Broadcasting excellence brings Davidson to the Hall
  1. When I first started you had to learn about the business and how it works and it was way more complicated than I thought. I had retired at 29 because of injuries and this was a chance for me to stay in the game. The only thing I did was I said to myself, 'I'm not going to get outworked.'
    SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  2. I don't think I would have gone anywhere else. I would have said no if it was any other organization that called me. New York gets in your blood ... Once you get to know it you become part of the fabric and it's in your blood forever. But, you hate to go through your life saying what if? So, I gave it a...
    SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  3. The only home games I did were some of the Calgary games
    SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  4. In Minnesota, with (Foster Hewitt Award winner) Jiggs McDonald, they were doing games and they needed somebody ... I did a game during a weekend when I was injured. Jiggs was in the booth and I had the time of my life, but I was a wreck.
    John Davidson – John Davidson SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  5. Ron and I started at the same time and it grew into Hockey Night (in Canada) in short order. That's how I got my feet wet. It was terrific, but it involved a lot of travel.
    SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  6. When they called me, I was in my office and it was during our playoff series against Vancouver and I think we were down 2-0, so I wasn't in a good mood, but I almost fell off my chair ... I never thought about it. I just loved the job so much. I went all over the world with it. It was really, really goo...
    John Davidson – John Davidson SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  7. Being as it was St. Louis, where I had played before, and I knew the ownership group, it was a fit
    John Davidson – John Davidson SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  8. John also at that time brought on Ron MacLean, who had been doing weather in Red Deer
    John Davidson – John Davidson SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  9. It's a bit of a pain in the butt, but I'm going to go and it'll be nice ... I hope it takes the pain away.
    SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago
  10. I knew if I did Ranger games I would be home in my own bed much more ... I had a young family and it was sensible. I moved back to New York and just stayed there. It was awesome.
    SOURCE: National Hockey league | NHL.com 2 weeks ago

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