Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - In Memory Of Peter Maher: The Voice Of The Calgary Flames

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

Join us live as we remember and celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary Peter Maher, the longtime radio voice of the Calgary Flames. For more than three decades, Peter brought Flames hockey into the homes and lives of generations of fans, calling some of the greatest moments in franchise history and becoming an unmistakable part of what it meant to be a Flames fan.Boomer hosts a special live edition of Barn Burner as friends, colleagues and members of the hockey community join the show to share their favourite stories, memories and moments with Peter.Peter Maher1946–2026The Voice of the Calgary Flames. ❤️ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi, everybody. Good to have you. Good to see it tonight on this. It feels it feels almost kind of appropriate. If you're in Calgary and you've been around today, it has been a cold and rainy, just kind of a dreary day. And it's started that way and it's continued all day. As, as we sit here tonight, it's been a weird day. We lost Peter Marr today. And this is going to be a struggle for me to get through this because I find the older I get, the more things get my emotions going. I've always had a hard time. But this has been one of those days where there's been some blubbering for sure. But we were just caught. I know we got the call. Rhett actually called this morning. We do the show at about 10 o'clock, which people that watch the show know it's usually around 10.15, 10.20.

And he was on his way in and he gave me a call. And he's like, hey, it's not, it's not out there. But Peter Mark passed away, which, you know, you know, hits you. So we kind of, and then we did the show and not in the business of breaking news like that. Let let this come out. We knew it was true as other people were starting to text throughout the show. But we just wanted to let things kind of take. its course. But as I sit here now, it's still almost kind of, it almost is hard to believe

as it was then. Peter was 79 and so many great tributes poured out today on social media. Social media, it's the best when it's not the worst and it's the worst a lot, but when it's the best, it's great for a day like today when people can can share their thoughts. And I just thought it was amazing for so many people to kind of pour their heart out of a book and everyone said the same thing all walks of life all different people whether they were former athletes former present broadcasters business people what they all had the same impression and the same takeaway about this guy which tells you you were you were doing something right when everybody has these same wonderful things to say about you.

So and it's weird because, and I don't know, SportsNet 960 going off the air just being shut right down and some friends are out of work and the radio rights moving around and then Peter today, it just feels like such a tumultuous and hard and weird time around this kind of thing that we do. And it just kind of struck me this afternoon that if, If I were still at 960 or if 960 were still around, it would be a full day of tributes and memoriam and, you know, sadness, but doing part of our family for sure, saying goodbye to Pete. And if 960 is not here, it doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing the right thing and celebrating the life of Peter Marr. So I don't know what this will be.

we've got some people who will join us. We invite you to join us. We have, as we're live on YouTube, if you have messages or thoughts or memories, fire them in there. Jack and I are holding down the fort here tonight. We'll get some guys coming through, but we'd love to hear if you have some memories

and thoughts about Pete. We'll share them that way. We won't get to them all, I don't think, but just a little time together as we remember the great one. So yeah, it came out this morning. This was the release that came out, again, via social media on Instagram and on X from, by the flames from the, the Mar family.

And Pete was such a family man. I know we'll talk about that, but this was from the Marr family. It is with great sadness that our family announces the passing of our dad, Peter Marr. So many people, Peter was the longtime voice of the Calgary Flames to us. he was simply dad. He was incredibly proud of his career and the people he met along the way, but his greatest pride was always his family. We're heartbroken by his passing and grateful for the love,

friendship, and support he received throughout his life. We will share more information regarding arrangements in the coming days. And it's so true. I know the thing with Pete always about the end of the season. He always hated when the flames would lose out, whether they made the playoffs or didn't that last game of the season. if it didn't end in a Stanley Cup, there was always disappointment from Pete. But he knew it also meant a few things.

It was more time around the house, more time at home, more time on the golf course and more time with his grandkids. He always just talked about, you know, he was just such a proud, proud dad and a proud grandpa. And he just loved that part of his life. And he gave so much of his life to that. You spend so much time in the road and so much time at the rink. Early in the morning, you're there late at night.

You do it again. It's rinse and repeat. And it starts in September and it goes till spring. But he, I think, made the most of that time that he had with his family, which is, you know, which is all you can ask, I suppose. He was the only play-by-play guy the Flames knew up until his retirement. and didn't, you know, 3,100 plus games. I know he took such pride in that that there would be travel snofews, there would be sickness, there would be illness,

there would be days where it just couldn't, but he would always be there for puck drop. When people turned on their radio to hear Flames hockey, they would hear that booming voice of Peter Marr, and he always had his little bottle of vinegar If you ever heard him on the radio shows or talking about it, if you're ever losing your voice, this was his tip to the young broadcasters.

If you ever were a little hoarse, so you didn't think, just have some vinegar. Do you gargle it? Well, you can drink it. Do whatever you need. Vinegar was the answer. It was the solution. And I know Dean Brown,

who was a long time senators play by play, guys like, I've still got the vinegar. It's still, it works and will always work. but yeah he was it's it's kind of why i get sentimental about radio and with everything that's happening right now radio going away it was it was such a connection pete was the connection to the team if there was a trade you heard it from pete if there was we talked about on the other show today if the team was on a road trip you may not hear until the next morning if they won or lost. Pete might tell you. You might find out from him with Marr in the morning at 8 a.m.

Whether or not the flames won the night before. You'd go five, six games without seeing them play. And he was absolutely your lifeline to your favorite team. And he was so diligent with those reports. I think of how you or I might feel. If we're out on the road and five cities and seven days and you're tired and you're late the night before and you got another one to the whole thing right well i'm just going to mail this it guys i'm too tired i can't make the hit today i saw peter marr he would come in as only he could morning boomer well we had a great game he just he was so passionate and such a pro and just the absolute best is it any wonder that everybody loved peter mar um and then even as even as even as time the internet and all of that sort of evolved and changed and moved on.

He would catalog everything. We'll talk to an old friend here in a moment, but we often wondered, what kind of filing system, what kind of cataloging or, you know, filing cabinets must he have? Because he was the archive of the team. Well, it was on this date in Flames history

that so-and-so had a hat trick and it was two goals on this night. No computers, no laptops, no cell phones. It was all papers and folders. And he was the very best. And of course, started with the team in 1980 and called the games and a absolute, if you were out and you remember it, it's one of the, it's one of the legendary calls. He, of course, at the controls back in 1989, when the flames in Montreal, won their first Stanley Cup. Over at that flame bench, there's all kinds of excitement going on there. Over at the penalty box, Jim Fulinski and Tim Hunter, not dressed tonight,

have joined Al McKinnis. They've got their sweats on and the Cowdery Flames and won the Stanley Cup for the winners, for the winners. Yeah, baby, yeah, baby, yeah, baby. And the flames coming out to celebrate out of the ice now as the Cowdery Flames have won the Stanley Cup for the first time in their history. And they do it here in the Montreal. pour them. So great. So great. Some legends right there and some legends with the legend with the call there as well.

Talked about some of the messages that were coming in. We'll share some of them throughout this, this tribute. I don't even know what we want to call it tonight, but they started to pour out after the news became official and as people got wind of it today. The mayor of Calgary had some thoughts and shared it. You can put it in the wind, column says Jeremy Farcas for more than three decades when Peter Marr said those words, Calgary knew exactly what they meant. Today, our city has lost one of its great voices from his first flame season in 1980 through the 1989 Stanley Cup of the unforgettable 2004 run. Peter was there for the moments that became part of Calgary's history. His voice reached far beyond our city. He called Stanley Cup finals, NHL All-Star Games and Canada's games at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, including the Golden Goal. yet Calgary was his home and the Flames were his team. Yeah, baby, and you can put it in the wind column, became part of our vocabulary because Peter became part of Calgary.

He will be remembered for the excitement he brought to the game and for the sincerity, integrity, dedication and respect he showed away from the microphone. My condolences to Peter's family, friends, colleagues, and the generations of Flames fans who grew up with his voice in their homes and lives. that from our mayor here in the city of Calgary. A Hall of Famer also, one of the greatest flames of all time and a hockey hall of famer, Al McKinness, also taking to Twitter slash X today with his message, one of the all-time greats.

I think we have it there. There it is. Very sad from Al McKinness to hear the passing of Peter, the longtime voice of the flames. I had the privilege of playing for the flames. So Peter was the familiar voice throughout some very special years, including our 1989 Stanley Cup championship with his unmistakable, yeah, baby. Peter was a true professional and a good man.

His voice will forever be connected to the history of the Calgary Flames. Rest in peace, Peter. That from Al McKinnis and reached out to a few people today just to get their thoughts. Not everybody can take time and come on a YouTube show. the general manager of the Calgary Flames, of course Craig Conroy, he shared these thoughts. We lost a legend today,

a true Calgary icon. Peter Marr will be dearly missed over a storied broadcasting career he left behind a legacy in this community and with our hockey club that will never be matched. Peter was the ultimate good guy. He loved this game as much as anyone. I've ever known, and I was proud to call him my friend.

That from Craig Conroy, I don't know how I'm going to get through this, folks. I don't know how we're going to do this. I'm going to lean on some people, and maybe they don't know how they're going to get through it either. But a guy that I spent a lot of time with in the same room, and he spent many, many hours, days, years working with Peter Maher, a longtime afternoon host, play by play, you name it. Rob Kerr joins us here tonight. As we remember the man,

yeah, I don't know, will you be any better than me? Yeah, you know what? I don't know about better, boom. Look, it's just been an incredible day of memories, an incredible day of celebrating a great guy. I think it's what is keeping me moving forward right now. I think I shared with you, you know, I'm flabbergasted. I was talking to him yesterday.

Like, you know, we were making plans. I mean, life was going on, right? And then to get the news today. But, you know, I jumped on just as you were playing the 89 clip. And there's a triple yeah baby. And I love telling the story about the triple yeah baby in 04 in game six of the second round series against Detroit that Marty Jellan has scored in the first overtime period. Pete hated that call for the first 12 to 16 hours of it.

I remember in the hot stove lounge, we played it after. And, you know, we were, couldn't believe it. They'd just beaten the Detroit Red Wings. And, you know, yeah, baby, yeah, baby. You hear Mike Rogers in there go, yeah, you know, it was just incredible. And we're playing in the hot stove lounge. And Mike's got a big grin on his face. I'm laughing.

Everybody in there's laughing. and Pete's just, you can tell it, it's driving them nuts. So the very next day, he came to the dome with one mission, one mission only. And that was seeking out head coach and general manager, Daryl Sutter, and apologizing to Daryl about the triple yeah, baby. He felt like he disrespected the game. He went over the top. And Daryl took great pride in telling him, nope, Pete, that was right.

You did it. I loved it. And then you could just feel like the tension came out of it. And that was 2004. So it's pre-social media, just kind of the edge of the internet. And one of Pete's most things he's most proud of that he probably didn't share with people, but he shared with you or shared with me was the fact that that goal was number one on ESPN's top audio for like eight straight weeks. Like it was still number one well into the Stanley Cup final.

And he just, you know, he just loved. that. You know, that, and he was very protective of the yeah, baby. The put it in the wind column, okay,

but the yeah baby, that had some, you know, that, that only got brought out certain times, certain situations, right? That's funny.

I forgot about that, but he was. He was, you know, he felt terrible. Ah, because he made it about himself. You know,

it was kind of his thing. And isn't it crazy? You look around and how many broadcasters that you hear their cliches and their catchphrases over and over again. And they take great pride and it was Peter's thing.

But he felt so awkward about it. And it was being celebrated. The signs were showing up in, they were on street corners and in store windows. And he was like, oh, geez, I don't know if that was the right thing to do. But good old Daryl would come through, Peter. It was great.

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. He was amazing. He was just absolutely amazing. I don't want to make you nervous. And I don't want to make you anxious. You've done this for a while. But I want you to know that right now there are some very special people who are watching this broadcast.

His son, Jeff Marge, just texted me. Families watching right now. So you're doing good work. It's a great opportunity for us to share with the whole family, Nancy, and Trish and Jeff and all the grandkids. How much we love Pete, but how much we learn from Pete and how much Pete taught us. And, you know, you had this really unique perspective because you worked in both markets. You worked with the two best radio play-by-play guys as far as I'm concerned through the 80s and the 90s and the 2000s in Peter Marr and Rod Phillips. I grew up in Edmondton.

I heard them. And, you know, it was when radio meant something. It was when radio, you know, TV was once a week. Radio was, it was the lifeblood. And we were so blessed in this province to have these two guys. And I just, I take such great pride in that. I take such great reverence in the fact that here in Alberta, you didn't have to be a Flames fan to respect Peter Marr.

And if you don't mind, I'd love to share a story that Pete told me a couple of times. I think I let it out of the bag for the first time today. But in the 86 series, I believe it was the 86 series against Edmonton. Pete came to the North Carolina Coliseum on a game day to do his regular work, which included an interview. And he was stopped by a member of the Oilers PR staff and said, hey, we're not talking to you. And Pete was stunned.

And he said, what, what are you talking about? Why not? He said, we heard on the last broadcast that you called Wayne a whiner on the air. And you and I are laughing because we know Peter Mark. And there are a million things that would have ever come out of his mouth before that phrase was ever out of. That's not who and what he was. But he was also a concept of professional. And he was devastated that this accusation was mating.

He immediately said, listen, I will send audio tapes. I'll have them here today. I'll somebody drive them up here. You can listen to it. I never said that. I would never say that. And you know, the Oilers and I know the Oilers and the Oilers and the Oilers are a certain way. and you know grumble grumble grumble you know okay maybe and and it was really important that

peter sought out wayne and he said i really need to talk to to gretsky well you're not interviewing no i just need to talk to him yeah and peter got they provided wayne and peter just said look wayne i never said that he goes no you would never say that he said when we don't play i'm driving around my car in emminton i listen to your broadcast i think you call a real good game I know you would never say something like that. That's the greatest player ever played the game showing his respect for our dear friend. And I just love that story because it's a Peter Marr story, right? Like you and I both know for that accusation to be made, it would hurt.

It would be. Oh, yeah. Right? But to have Wayne Gratzky say, no, when we're not playing, I listen to your games on the radio up here. And I just, I love telling that story. Yeah. Such an ambassador of the team. Oh, yes.

In a weird way, he never wanted to be connected. I'm not a player. I'm just a, but he was such the connection for so many people, the fans and the listeners, he was the direct connect. He was absolutely a part of the flames. To this day, to this day, I can tell you about numerous coffees and conversations we've had outside

in this summer. in which, you know, we're just talking and you can see somebody walk by. And what was that? And then they stop and they turn around. And it's everything from, man, you were the voice of my childhood to, yeah, baby. And, you know, or whatever. Old, young, new, I mean, we were at a Starbucks having tea and coffee and upstrolled a father with his son.

and he said, could you say hi to my son? He never got a chance to hear you, but you were the best and everything like that. And you know, because you saw it, you witnessed it. He made time for everybody. And I think that's the other part of this story that I want to make sure we tell, Boom, is how important it was to us, to people in our industry, because not everybody was giving of their time, but Peter Marr was.

Peter, it didn't matter if you were the voice of, you know, junior double F, whatever. Peter Marr, if you were a broadcaster, Peter Marr had a moment for you. He had some advice for you. I suggest to you that there's a better than average chance. Peter Marr listened to other people's tapes more than he probably spent time calling hockey games because he was that guy, right, when that was the thing. Yeah, well, I work with a guy who was like, Peter Marr had no business listening to my tape, but he listened to the tape and the comments and the remarks that he had show that he

abs actually did listen to the tape. Ryan Pinder and I saw online today there were there were a number of of instances where it's our junior B team and our junior he took some time. He sat down. We had coffee and he kind of gave us some pointers and some thoughts about things as only as only Peter could. The one word that that I saw and it just felt the kindness. that he showed such a kind man,

which doesn't sound like it's that hard, but it's so rare that you find someone that is just sincerely kind to everyone. And that was what Peter was. I don't know how else better to say it. And I just, I saw so many examples of it. I,

you know, I feel terrible. You can't compare yourself to Pete because he just, man never had a bad day, so to speak, you know, um, you know,

he had better days than others, but, But you're absolutely right. He was responsible to the public. He was responsible to the listener. He felt that he owed them his best. And if they took the moment to talk to him or stop or take a picture or whatever, he was going to do it.

And listen, he loved it. He, you know, to the last boom, like his last, yesterday, he was, on radio talking about the flames being back on the radio. Like, you know, when 960 went under a month ago or whatever, he was devastated and is so concerned about where the radio rights were going to go. And,

and, you know, he was texting me yesterday and we were back and forth and he did Jock show in the whole nine yards. But, you know, he's mad, he was mad because Columbus did away with their, with Bob McGilliot and the color guy.

And they were going to a simulcast with the, like, honestly, I'm positive he sent, you know, notes and letters to people about it. Like, you know what a big diehard Yankees fan he was, is, I should say. And, and you, well, yeah, you shared that with that. That's right. I was going to put the Yankee game on behind, but they didn't. Right, right.

Well, that would have been a fitting tribute. That won't, yeah, get us taken down for sure. You know, either that or, you know, or something from the East Coast. Yeah. You know, if you could have found Rod Stewart, let's play some Rod Stewart. That's right. Forever Young. At forever young, baby.

He, but where was I going with the story? But ultimately, you know, he just, he was, I don't know, he was just, he was so proud of, of the responsibility and he carried it with such great a plume. And he just a true gentleman. And you feel a little awkward saying that because everything coming out of our mouths is great. So here's my one, here's my one little, he did look a little Columbo-ish sometimes. Is that right? He could be, on an off day, he could be a wee bit disheveled. Yeah.

And with his Yankee cap on and everything like that. But don't ever, you know, you risk, you take your own life in peril if you didn't think he was the sharpest guy in the room or knew what was going on. And, you know, I'm sure this is going to come up, but could get a hold of anybody. Like, he was, you know, towards the end of, of, of, of, of, you know, towards the end of, of, of, of, my career. He was hockey royalty. Like Peter Mark called, they answered, right? Daryl Sutter, you know, he, he was so funny because he wanted to call Brad Tray Living in Toronto and ask him something. And he called me, he said, do you think Brad Trilliving will remember me? And I'm, yeah, Pete, I think you're okay. Like, you know, go ahead. But yeah. Oh, my God. It's funny,

because he would come to the rink in the morning. Yeah. And depending on whether it was a practice day or a game day. That would be probably if it was a practice day, he'd have the Yankee hat and maybe, maybe not quite as, and that he'd have like the smallest Tim Horton's coffee. I didn't know they would sell them that small. Yeah.

Were they out of the big ones, Pete? You could, they'll allow you. He's hot chocolate cup. Like a Dixon cup. Yeah. And without fail, we'd be wrapping up in the flames room where we'd be out there somewhere.

It's like, oh, there's Pete's coffee cup. So you'd grab it and throw it in the, trash because he'd get talking to somebody and set it down and then okay doing the interview okay see you later and Pete's coffee cups were all over the lower bowels of the of the saddle dome it's so great well i think i think it was you speaking to coffee if i remember correctly um i saw our dear friend ron tarrant who was a producer for us uh paid tribute to peter and he showed an award that he won for a commercially he did and peter was the voice talent for

for sure that certainly wasn't the joe to go uh that's right right and and you would do that you would you'd crack me up all the time because that commercial and it would i can't remember exactly what it said oh you know need a coffee p yes this is good what's it what is it oh it's from husky it's joe to go joe to go that's right it was the hardest yeah i could remember it was husky or shell or where it was. Joe to go. Is Joe to go? So he would rock it. Hey, Peter, is that a Joe to go?

Are you having your Joe to go today? Well, that's right. Bover. He was, I mean, roll with it. Oh, yeah. You talk, again, it sounds kind of corny. Everything's going to be this guy is the greatest in the world, but he really was. I don't know, I don't know what else to tell people.

I know. He's everything you wanted to be. The old line is you never want to meet your heroes. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You wanted to meet me more. We'd be sitting in that bunker at the dome, the hot stove lounge, and truly, whenever Pete walked in, the mood would rise. And you would probably, there's the Hall of Famer.

There, there he is. Ladies and gentlemen, there's the Hall of Famers here. Hey, Peter, it was so great. I have, I, came in. They're all flooding back to Jeff and I right now, but I completely forgot about, high on grass. Well, yeah, Green Drop. Absolutely.

Remember that one? Brian Gibson is the owner of Green Drop. And he, I mean, adores. He will be devastated today. Brian is one of the best guys in the world. He owns Green Drop. Pete would move heaven and earth for them. Oh, yeah.

Brian always felt bad about asking if Peter would do something. I'll do your lawn and I'll do Jeff's lawn. I'll do your whole family. Would you mind do it? And Peter's like, oh, I don't mind doing it. I just, is it good enough? Am I doing enough for you? So it was just kind of a kindness avalanche going back and forth there.

But, yeah. Hey, Harvey, I get off my lawn. The ads are just so legendary. I'm high on grass. But he could get away with it, right? Because it was your best friend. It was your dad. It was your granddad.

It was your best uncle or whatever. He just, he could get away with it. And, you know, I'd have, I'm remiss if I didn't. mention another one, Jeff just texted me with your predecessor in the morning is a bone saw. Like when he did that, when Mike Richards did the bone saw trilogy, or not trilogy, but saw God. And that, you know, Pete is this, you know, grumpy old detective. Evil, yeah. Evil killer. Yeah. Yeah. There's just like, and then you see him and you go, and it just makes you laugh, right? It just, oh my God, he was so funny. He just was so, so much fun.

And never took himself seriously. No. Never ever took himself seriously, right? No. The other, I mean, so we learned so much from him. And some would be if you asked, he would be happy to take time and tell you. But again, and you would have seen it even more so that because you would have seen him in the hot still, but you were in the press box beside him through all those games.

And just you talk about being under the learning tree to watch the way he would prepare and how he would conduct his business. No one was more prepared than he was. And I know there was any number of times. And it was, well, you know, it says Peter would say if you use 30% of your prep or whatever it was. And if you use 10% of your prep, 10%, that was true. You know you're well prepped. 10%. If you use 10% and you prepared properly for this broadcast.

Yeah. And he was the living embodiment of that. I also heard you coming on like, you know, this is the last year of the dome. And it was breaking my heart that there wasn't going to be at this date in Flames history. right like it just felt like the right year for that to come back of uh to come back that would be the guy yeah and you're right he could uh he he he had it written but he could have flipped it off the top of his head i mean the last flames conversation we had was he walked me through the entire dug gilmore trade from start to finish the whole nine yards all of the underbelly of it the

nine all of it like he was just so sharp and um you're right boom like you'd sit up in that press box and you would marvel. Now, the odd time he would stand up too close to the beam and nearly knock himself out. Do you remember a certain broadcast in Minnesota? We talked about it today. Did you talk about it? Okay. Yeah.

It was so, it was so funny. And again, it's one of those things. There would be a lot of, there would be a lot of broadcasters or people. You wouldn't be able to play it and laugh because they would get offended by it. Why are you guys still doing this? it was a game at the Excel Energy Center in Minnesota and he and Mike Rogers are doing the game. And oddly enough, Conroy, Craig Conroy, still a player, I guess at the time, or maybe he was scouting. Anyway, he was in the adjacent booth, right?

Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was. So Pete is doing the, doing the call. He stands up to kind of take a look at something. And then as he goes to sit down, the chair that he was using with Caster's wheels on it has has slid back on him. So when he goes to sit back down, the chair is no longer there to hold him up. So he goes crashing to the floor. And the audio sounds exactly how you would think.

He's the pro that he is. So the face off deep to the right side of backstrum. A pocket in the right corner. He just kind of doesn't miss a beat. He just keeps going. And he kind of has a bit of a chuckle. You can hear he's laughing at himself. He's enjoying the moment.

and what it must have sounded like. And then Mike Rogers, you okay, Pete. And I remember we asked Conroy about it. He's like, well, we were worried. We thought he'd gone down. We didn't know what was going on. Charlie and I were down in the booth on the other side.

And we knew something was going on. We thought it was a medical emergency or something, right? So the game's over. You go over there. Mike and Pete must have laugh for an hour. Like, just never stop laughing the whole time. Yeah. But, oh, I mean, just, just glories.

Just glory. The audio was so funny. I know. So, so great. I know. But, you know, we, we, we, we were talking about, he was really, really, really, really good at his craft. Yeah. Like, he was, he was a mechanic, if that's the direction you wanted to go.

Or he was an artist in what he did. But there were, there's no. And it's not a knock against us, the younger guy. whatever. It's just he grew up in that golden era and you know, to that end, boom, he was adamant that there was a proper way to do it and he was going to do it that way. But boy, he was good at what he did. Well, there was always, there was that cadence and rhythm that he would have as the playbite because he's the conductor of the orchestra. The game, it's happening down there, but when they would score, the hand would go up, right?

It's just kind of the, I got this. Mike or whoever the color guy, just, we're going to let this thing breathe. Yeah. And he would know exactly when the right thing was. The Flav scored, however he would do it as only he could. And then when the arm came down, that was now whoever else can join the party and have. Absolutely. And, you know, the other thing that I want to recognize Pete for that I think might,

he might not get the do that he's deserved on it. And you know this really well, too. that sweet spot of, you know, Calgary finally getting a sports talk station and social media and everything blowing up, that 8 o'clock morning hit, that 5 o'clock evening hit, that NHL insider segment was must listen to. It was the most listened to thing on radio in Calgary, bar none. Don't pass goal. It was.

And, you know, for a number of years or five, seven years, whatever it was, you had to listen to it because he told you what was going on with flames. And then he told you a bunch of stuff around the league that you didn't know and you weren't going to read about till the next day. And, you know, it was such an incredible kind of, you know what it was like, you just set him up. You just gave him softballs, right? He sent you a list of 10 items or whatever.

So Pete, there's something going on with Oleg Suprikan and yes, Rob, and away he goes. Yeah. I just, I really think it's important that we pay a tribute because he's a great broad not just a great play-by-play guy. He's a great broadcaster, right? Yeah. Jack, I'm going to put you on the spot. Kelly Kirsch, the former program director.

He's texting. Who is watching this show? Fan 960. I got some thoughts from him earlier today and I'll kind of elaborate. But this was Kelly Kirsch, long-time program director at Fan 960. I worked with Peter for over 20 years. First is an operator for play-by-play and ending as his manager speaking at his retirement press conference.

truly the nicest, most kind, considerate professional broadcaster I ever work with. Always prepared. Always brought energy and passion to the broadcasts. Mar in the morning was one of the most listened to segments on 960 ever. Peter was amazing with young broadcasters, teaching them the way to prepare and present play by play. Strong family man. I was honored to work and know Peter Marr. We had some laughs along the way too.

I miss them already. That from Kelly Kirsch. Kelly and I, we actually we had a little kind of a sit down that will air at some point on this show. And to your point, he had talked about when he came in, it was the team and then it was, well, the team is out, so it's going to be

fan 960. Well, we don't know, we don't have a morning show. We'll put somebody there. We've got Joe Sports and Kevin also in the afternoon. What if we get Peter Marr, he'll come on at 8 a.m. Mar in the morning. And it was, it was that that started to, well, you know what? The sales people were like, well, we can sell that.

Well, what if we do it in the afternoon? So now you got two things. And it was that that got the wheels going. It was great. It was just sports. Yeah, maybe we can do sports all day. If there is an appetite for it, because there sure is for this, these people really care about this hockey team.

Yeah. And it just kind of went from there. Yeah. Which is, like you said, it was instant credibility, right? Like, you know, we were trying, you know, we were just trying to find our way, you know, doing what we could kind of. of like you said the team thing came and went and you know we were kind of the sister station of the fan 590 in Toronto but not really you know Jim Rome was a thing and everything like that but

Pete gave you instant credibility right like right away people knew them wanted to hear them and you know I'm not surprised that's what Kelly said at all because he's you know he's bang on and I I always remember our our consultant who would come in and and visit us and we always had to book, you know, time. Yeah. You get to spend some, can you help me out? I'm old. You remember?

I don't remember. Kelly's listening. Kelly, Kelly attacked me. That's it. Yeah. But we get, okay, so boom's going in this hour. You're going in this hour. And then it was always funny because then Pete was listed.

And I'm like, on God's greener. Yeah. What is Pete? And then Kelly told me one time. He said, no. Something goes in. And Pete talks to him, right? You know,

Rich chairs. The consultant lays down in the couch and then Peter takes the note pad, starts telling him about his life. Exactly. And it was, you know, we, the one innovation that I think that, you know, you and I brought was, Rick Scott.

Thank you. Thank you. Rick Scott was a great. I loved Rick, but it was always weird that he was ripping us. And then, you know, Pete came in and set him straight. But the one thing that I. I think all of us at that era would talk about is the hot stove lounge, right?

And how the hot stove lounge became this thing. And it was, you and I would just sit there and the people that would, you know, we would get guests because Pete was there. Yeah. They wouldn't, they couldn't have cared less if you and I were in existed. But Pete, Pete would, they'd come to see Pete. They'd come. You know, I remember that the first time Sydney Crosby ever came to Calgary. We had one of the rare times we ever closed the door of a hot stove lounge because Peter was getting a one on one with Sydney Crosby.

Well, how did you guys from the East Coast Rob? All right. It was the first time. I was telling the guys on the show. It was the first time he ever came through. The Penguins had one PR person. Sydney had his own. Just because the attention around him was so huge.

And he kind of did. He talked in the room for took a few questions in the room. And then when he was done where the hot stove lounge was and the visitor's dressing room was. around the corner. And it was just accepted. Sydney knew, the PR guy knew, Peter knew. Oh, Peter's going to talk to him one-on-one. Okay.

And everyone was okay with it because it was Peter. That's exactly it. And, you know, if it was Rob Kerr asking for that interview, we'd still be waiting. Yeah. And that was the only time. There was a lot of that. And, you know, Al McKinnis, you know, you read the tweet from Al McKinness, but those those guys that the joe new and dykes um the gary roberts the joey mullins the guys that

worked you know came up his flames but then they're working in the league they always sought him out too right yeah he would always get he'd always get those exclusive you know one-on-ones for the pre-game or the the the show or whatever and you know he just he brought so much cachet to what we did right he just you know he was like you say credibility well if peter's there then it's a real thing. It's worth my time if it's worth Peter's time. And that was the neat thing, like you say, and you were a big part of that hot stove lounge

and how it evolved because the door was never open until you got there. Then it was open. Only argument Peter Marr and I ever had. So, yeah, he wanted it closed. He wanted it closed. He wanted it closed because when Jerome McGinla was sitting out, there was a bit of an issue with a comment that was made on the air

about, you know, something to the effect of go sign Jerome, get it done in a pregame show. And one of the owners showed up a little upset in the Hostel Lounge. So it was really the only, you know, Pete said, oh, I prefer you close the door, Rob. Well, Pete, I prefer to keep it home, but I'm a little claustrophobic. And I wouldn't say I want it. I wore him down. But I can honestly tell you, that's, that's about as cross a words as Peter Mar and I ever. Yeah.

But it was neat with, with that door open and the proximity to that visitors, room. Yeah. How many players, they, maybe he'll be here. They'd poke their head in. And if Pete was there, like you say, it's being you or whoever, well, they're gone. But if he was there, Mr. Marr, handshakes and good to see you.

How's your family? This whole thing. And they were always, he was can't miss stuff when you come to Calgary if you were a visiting player. You're going to go and see if Mr. Marr is still there. And, you know, it kind of worked his way through as well. Like, Darrell, I love Darryl.

her, but Darrell was, you know, Darrell had his days where he just didn't want to be around people. But never, never, never with Peter. Like, always had time for Pete. You know, poor Randy Sportak just got torched on so many occasions by Darrell or Jermaine Franklin or, you know, even myself. There's, you know, I just remember times you ask questions and that you thought were, and Darrell just kind of wouldn't give you the time of day.

But that, he never did that with Pete, right? Yeah. Pete, you know, Pete was different. and should have been, and was, right? Like, no doubt about that. But, yeah, it was just such an incredible time, right? I just, I treasure it to this day. I want to bring another guy into the party.

He was on with me earlier today. He was on that player's side, our buddy, Ret Warner. Oh, Retro here tonight. Robert, how are you? Retro, any better I'd be twins. We're missing our buddy. We're happy right now. We're sad, but we're happy right.

now remembering all the great stuff about Peter Marr. I remember getting traded here and Peter Mark called me and had a great conversation with him. I think it was the first time I might talk to him. I wasn't like Sydney getting a special entourage when I came through Calgary. Peter wanted to have a sit down with me. So that was my first interactions with Peter. Yeah. It was it was we were all kind of protective in our own way of Peter, right? If you ever, if you ever, heard somebody that oh not that anybody ever did but it was like peter mar was ours and i think it started with the radio station and the hockey team and then it was the city and the fan base it was like that was our peter mar he was just so just such a wonderful guy um and you guys loved him right i know

there's all kinds of stories well let's try and get peter out for drinks on the road well peter's Peter's doing homework. Peter's getting ready for the game. He's a pro. But the odd time you might get Pete to come out and shake a leg, right? Well, the odd time you'd get him to come out and have a few pops. And I think at the start of his career, it was more often than at the end of his career. I played with Dougie Gilmore in Buffalo.

And Dougie used to tell stories about Peter, hanging out with the fellas and having a few pops. Now, that was a whole different era. So I think it was a much more acceptable and happened a lot more. but there wasn't a guy that didn't love him. There's not a guy that we could call in 30 years of calling flames games. Everyone that ever put on a flames jersey, if you called them right now and asked them how their day is going,

and you heard about Peter, they would have amazing stories and nothing but love and high praise for that, man. And I can tell you that's not the norm that hockey players liking media people. It's usually the other way around. Yeah. Yeah, most often when you get an Asked Savage conversation, there's a bit of a scowl and an eye roll and a fine, I'll do it. But right Peter asked, absolutely Peter,

to the point where I actually, he was so professional, I don't know if he was humble about it. He didn't ask enough. Like he could have, right? Like he had access to anything, but he did not want to put you out at all. And he didn't want,

I don't know if he felt it that way, but he came across. He didn't want to distract you from what he knew you needed to do. And he wanted to be there to support you. He wanted to be able to do his job, but he certainly didn't want to be a distraction for you at all. And he wasn't. And everyone loved talking to him because he did it with such class,

with such respect with an understanding of what guys were going through. And he always put a, he didn't paint a pretty picture. He just told the right story truthfully. and honestly. And I was listening to you guys as I drove home. I was just at the rink with one of my kids. And I was singing to myself,

boy, it sure makes me feel a little crappy about myself. I run my mouth and I talk smack and I'm a bad-mouthing people. And I'm like, oh, yeah, why did I say that? Like, I don't think Pete went home as many days as I have going, oh, I should just shut up. Yeah, yeah.

Well, we were laughing earlier. He'd feel bad about things, things he should never feel bad about. but he was just such a consummate pro. And Rob, I was saying on the other show, just how much the National Hockey League meant to him. It was the best league in the world, and it was on a pedestal,

and it should be treated as such. And it could be game 60 on a Wednesday in Columbus. But when that mic cracked, live from the, whatever, the National Hockey League presents, I'll, I'll never forget that voice, that booming, that energy. It was the biggest game ever to be played.

Yep. When he turned that mic on every single day. I would challenge that just a little bit in this way. Extremely proud to be the voice of the Campbellton Tigers, too. Sure. Right? That, you know, like, I mean, I did Junior A and I did some major junior and stuff like that, but all my stories are about the NHL.

Peter would tell the Campbellton stories and was very proud to be from the East Coast and was very proud to have been there. But you're absolutely right, Boom. I remember one of the rare opportunities early on to go on the road. And retro, I think you played in the game in Saskatoon, the preseason game in Saskatoon. I did. I did, yes. And that was the epitome. I mean, that was what game one of eight and right?

And it was one of those games where not a lot of regulars played, but he cracked that mic. And it was the NHL in Saskatoon. It was bang on game one of eight. We played the next day in Vancouver and Keenan had me on that flight. I'm like, Dan, you, you're back. Yeah, no, I just remember I got to drive to Saskatoon and do the pregame show and the post game show from there. And I drove back. But boom, you're absolutely right.

Like he just, you know, everything was to elevate, rat. Like, there was no, he loved the players. He just loved the players. loved and respected the relationship. And, you know, Retro, I don't know if you want to get into it, but he, he would tell a story about the flight home from Tampa Bay after game seven and how gutted he was for you guys, right? That, you know, that plane ride, you know, players came up and talked to him and Mike and the

whole nine yards, but it was never about poor me. He just, he was gutted for you guys. Well, I told the story earlier today that I was gutted for him because I, I, I, I, I, did. I still feel that way that one of my big regrets, of course, is not winning the cup, but for the people you felt like you let down, and he was a guy I felt we let down. I wanted Peter Marr to have that call. He'd been so, he's been so huge in Calgary and across the country and the National Hockey League, but this, I felt like this was a whole other level for Peter Mar, all the Jellina goals and the way the series all ended and that Jelliot scored and the

yeah, babies. I felt like this was. another opportunity for him to really, I don't know, leave even more of a mark on the league and the game and the franchise and the city. And I was so sad that he didn't get that opportunity again. And there again, sorry, I was just going to say there again, you think of how many players would give a damn about what the broadcaster of the team and say, I didn't win. I've got enough people. But I, and knowing Pete, totally understandable.

You'd feel like you kind of let them down. Well, and I have a mic in my hand, so I'm telling the story. But I know for a fact, the rest of the guys felt the same way. It wasn't just a Ret Warner thing. Everyone wanted Peter to have. Christophealewa was in tears according to Pete. Yes. You know, talking to Pete and Mike, he was in tears.

Yeah. Right? You know, it's retro. Were you ever part of his vinegar stories? I've heard the vinegar stories, but, yeah. Okay. So that just the one that I would bring up is the San Jose with our dear, and, you know, again, gone too soon when Steve Modador scored in all, not, was it overtime? Anyway, he scored the winner.

Yeah. But Pete was, Pete had no voice. No voice. And Darrell Sutter went to the back of the restaurant and got him a jug of vinegar because it was legendary that Peter would gargle vinegar when he had something. like a cold coming on and stuff like that. So like Darrell just went in the back of this restaurant, got a jug and gargled vinegar all day and made it through that game. Yeah, it is legendary.

I was saying earlier, I think it was Dean Brown. The senator's play-by-play guy for a long time on Twitter today. He's like, I'm still using vinegar, Pete. If I need it, I still need vinegar. Just to this end.

And I want to play this the day. I know we were all, we were there the day that he had his retirement press conference. I was going to say as humble, you know, the humility for a guy who could have a huge ego. He's in the Hall of Fame. He's called all these games. He's in the NHL. It was the furthest thing from what you would get from Peter.

But the things he was proud of was that I didn't miss games and it's over 3,000. This was the day of Peter Myers' retirement press conference at the dome. It's better to leave what you do best too early than too late. And that statement has tremendous impact on what my decision is today. I take pride in saying I've been blessed to not miss an NHL play-by-play assignment after over 300 games. For that I'm forever grateful and a big thanks to the trainers, doctors that got me through some tough sick moments. And that brings me to now and my decision to step away his voice in the the flames. Whoever is selected to take that broadcast seat, I offer nothing but the very best.

With this message, this is the NHL, the National Hockey League. Treat every game, every broadcast with respect and reverence. Remember, it's an honor to be a broadcaster in the greatest league in the world. There was some talk about having a farewell game. That would put the focus on me. isn't about me. I'm the messenger. I'm telling all the audience, the listeners, about our team. In this case, the Calgary Flames.

And the flames take the buck, Glenn Cross, passing into the middle of Aguilinla. Aguinal right wing now into the Minnesota zone. Aginla goes to the corner pass. And Freddie Gry! It's all there. The pride, the humility. You can see the look on his face

as they're playing his goal call. He's a little sheepish about doing the Yeah, baby, but, you know, it's the National Hockey League. Best of luck to whoever comes in after me. It doesn't get better than that. As classy as it gets. That's hard for me to watch. Watching him retire was hard.

And I believe he was at peace with the decision, but I think there was a whole missing in Pete from that day, moving forward that just wasn't, you know, how did you fill it? Sure. And that's what he lived. You couldn't, you can't fill it. That was. It's who he was. It really, really was, Rhett.

And, and I think, you know, it happens to all of us. You know, it happens to me real quick, but it happens to all of us. And that's harder, that's the hardest thing I've had to watch today, actually. I can tell you this, that him walking away, I wish I'd have had the class that he did when you leaving the game i left the game jaded and mad well how could you leave like i'm a big deal yeah that's not peter mar's way peter mar was thank you i've had the greatest opportunity that any man can have and so humble so good is hearing that voice just you know the tears start streaming yeah i hear you i hear you um i remember that day uh we were

in the show in the old studio. And I think it was an Eric Francis tweet. And it kind of hit me and you, all of us that were there that day, retro. I was like, well, what? Oh, well, no. Well, we, the press conference today is like, we didn't know. And that caught us off guard.

We loaded up with Kleenex in our pockets because we knew we were going to need it. Two big burly dudes standing in the corner of the room sneaking the, the Kleenex out of our, out of our pockets. Our buddy Peter Marr was up at the front of the room. But yeah, as bittersweet day, I know, yeah, as bittersweet as could be, just because you knew how much it meant to him, like you say, Rob. It was everything for him. Yeah.

Yeah. I've said it a couple times. Like, don't, you know, we say that with a fully understand that family was most important to Pete. Yeah. Right. And I don't want to ever say that it wasn't. I mean, my God, he asked me to talk to his granddaughter yet, and I had coffee with her yesterday.

He just wanted the best for her. So I don't know why I'm talking to. But anyway, but you know what I'm saying? Like, family was number one. But when you got to the crux of it, he was a play by, he was a radio play by play guy. And he was a broadcaster. And, you know, I think where I trailed off earlier, what I was going to say, boom, was I was talking about Columbus doing away with, you know, their bride. he's mad like Pete Pete's mad he was mad during COVID when they stopped traveling broadcasters like he was

mad and we'd have coffee at Starbucks and we'd be talking about broadcasters not traveling and we were mad about but when you think about it you know it's ultimately the listener does a listener care as much as no the listener didn't care as much as we cared but he was mad and he he he was mad yesterday about Columbus he still was mad about it you know he just cared so much for the art form. We've talked about this. And I don't exactly know who started the Good Guy Award. Is that what it was?

And you know what? Roger Millions, maybe he's watching. He sent a message to Retton I today. Roger Millen's obviously longtime broadcaster with sports net, numerous other places. The Good Guy Award given out every year to a member of the Calgary Flames, who was good to deal with the media. you could roll up there, Jack. So there you see the award and all the,

geez, we're all getting old. Has it been given away that many times? Gosh, it feels like it's maybe a couple years old. There's Blake Coleman and Michael Backland, getting the award a few years ago. And it's just, it's a wonderful thing for that to be there. And how great it is that it exists and how great it is it going forward. And on social media, as we've seen,

there have been a lot of tributes today. A couple former Good Guy Award winners went and shared some things today. And I know that Jack will call them up. Obviously, Blake Coleman there in the jacket, no longer aflame. But from somewhere abroad, there's Blake Coleman on his Instagram. Rest in peace, Peter. It was an honor to be a recipient of your award and sharing your legacy. So there he is with his kids and how happy Pete is and how proud.

and another truly good guy, aptly named Mackenzie Weeger today, sad to hear the passing of Peter Marr, what an honor it was to win your reward. Jeez. Rest in peace, good guy. Pete, Pete was so proud of that award and loved, loved the opportunity to go to the rink and sit with the coaches and talk to the players and talk to the winner. but he we talked endlessly, you know, he's struggling a little bit, getting around the last year. So, so we'd have these conversations and he'd have it all mapped out how he'd get into the dome, how he could do everything. It was so important for him.

That thing meant that award means so much to him. And, you know, credit to Roger, because it's a fitting tribute, right? Like it really is when you think about ways of honoring somebody. You know, we talked about how much he loves the players and reveres the players. I just think it's a great tribute. Yeah. It was, Kersh brought up to me the other night about the Rett Warner Roast

when we had that at the, whatever hotel it was. He was the star. Yeah. I mean, it was your night. But I mean, I can only imagine people are always so happy to see Peter, Peter, Barr, Peter, Maher, you had them as part of your speech. We don't need to get into that necessarily.

But I just, if we could all be. half as beloved as Peter when we say goodbye. How do you do it? How do you become so universally adored and revered and respected and looked up to? You hear it all the time, no one's got a bad word to say about the guy. No one has got a bad word about Peter Barr. It's the opposite. Everybody loves him.

What he, the legacy that he leaves is nearly impossible to beat. I don't know how you beat it. I just, I don't know if you can anymore. I don't know, I don't know if the business will allow for it the same way, because he had such a, a spotlight, as I said before, in the 80s, in the 90s, radio broadcast was the true lifeblood of the team, right? And he would, and he's good. Like, he's really, really good at what he does.

And I think that's part of it. I look forward to the day, and I've said it before, where A, I will be able to instantly simulcast Peter Marr's voice on a Hagarie Flames game. It will. I'm right there with you, Red. It's closer than you think. Yeah. And I will.

And when I'm, it's not a disrespect to anyone else calling the game. When that happens, Peter Marr's voice will be the voice I'm listening to with the flames play. But it'll be missing something. Yeah, it'll be enough. It'll be enough.

It won't be the same. It won't be as good. But it'll be enough. I hear you. And it's a lot closer than we all think. It's just I'm here to tell you. Speaking of family, it was my bachelor party. And Jeff Marr, who's been around the game and still around the game and were sending

our love to the family. I believe they're actually listening and watching. So sending our love to you guys. We're at my bachelor party. And they were, Peter and Jeff were standing next to each other. And I was like, wait. Yeah. That's, oh, I had no idea.

You knew them both so well for years. And it took me 18 beer and a bachelor party to put together. They had to stand next year. Oh, I get it now. I get it. Yeah. Weird. Small world.

Small world. Robin mentioned something earlier. Peter would reach out because we would, we would have, Rob would have Mar and Mara to kick off the flames at five. and we would have Mar on the morning. And he would send, I said early, if it was anybody else,

you get up, guys, I'm hung over. I can't do it today. Or late getting in. He never missed one. The energy level was through the roof. And he would,

he would send a list of topics for us retro. And we, here's five or six things. We'd get too deep, maybe. Like we'd maybe get to the second thing on the raric occasion, you'd get the third out of the five or six. You felt bad that he was doing all this homework.

It's like, Pete, honestly, you don't need to do all this prep for this hip. We're just going to bullshit for a while. We'll talk about the game, but we're just happy to have you on. And he'd have all these things to talk about. We'd never get to them. Yeah, and you got a bit of an indication of what the night was before by the spelling. When it came in. There were a few times where, you know, Jerome's name was misspelled or again,

it was started with a K. but that was acceptable too because he still made the hit like he still made the hit you know red you can speak to it I was on charter there's times that plane didn't land till 4.30 or whatever

you know 530 by the time he gets home and two and a half hours later he's doing the hit I don't know how you teach or learn to be that professional I mean it I'm in the NHL and I was half assing at half the time I mean this guy is dialed in all the time

lack of sleep no hours working his tail off constantly, never missing a game, like, and always with the best attitude about it. Yeah. What was it like for you? Walk us through because I was trying to, it happened quickly this morning and we,

we kind of did our little thing at the end of our show. And I was trying to remember, because he didn't miss a game, but there was the Hall of Fame. He was going to go to the Hall of Fame, but there was a game. And then the night of the ceremony, you kind of took over for a little bit.

How did that all play out? So he found out he was going into the Hall of Fame in June. And he, Kelly, we knew we were going to go to Toronto, right? We were going to be there. Harley Hodgis was going to be. There was just no way we were going to miss this. So Pete, you know, Pete, I'm going to be in Toronto. And no, no, no, no.

He goes, okay, but are you going to be back for the game? And I said, well, yeah, I'll get a flight and everything. He goes, okay. And then, I don't know, it might have been, Kelly probably remembers more than I do, but it couldn't have been much more than a month before. He said, so you'll take care of the start of the game? And I didn't dawn on me. And then he said, no, no, I'm going to be on the ice.

Can you do the first part of the game? And I was like, yeah. I mean, my God. Talk about getting up at 4.30 in the morning. So I took the 6 a.m. flight from Toronto to Calgary to be in, time. So I don't, I think got back from the Hall of Fame and just stayed up and flew in, couldn't believe it, still couldn't believe it, got up there. He was down, he was not there. He left. He was downstairs. And Mike and I started in on the game and it was Calgary and St. Louis.

And two minutes in, Damon Lankow scored. So I got to call a goal, which was incredible, but probably the most important part was then I believe Darren McClewell. Hardy fought Myers. And so I got to call a fight. And it couldn't have been more than six minutes in total, but it felt like a lifetime. And for me, if I never got another opportunity after that, I was a blessed man.

And what I wrote about a bit today was that Pete got up there, but he didn't come over and hover right away. He saw that some, he saw that I was into it and it was working. and he gave me a little bit more time than I probably deserved. And then we threw it to a commercial and he came back and he thanked me and I just went back to doing what I was doing. But I get chills. The hair on the back of my head just stands up because, you know, Mike was making fun. Well, maybe you get to call a goal.

And, you know, everybody's, no, maybe you'll get to call a fight. And probably the coolest part was Darren McCarty the next day at practice. He came over to me. He said, hey, I heard you got to call the fight. I'm like, what? How do you know? He goes, yeah, I was in the press box. I was looking up trying to find you.

He said, I heard you got to call the fights. Yeah. Yeah, it was a really special moment. And then you started calling fights. And I started calling fights, which is kind of the craziest thing when you think about where we're at with the game today and everything like that. And that got a little too much. I made it too much.

But you think about that for a second. Here's this hall of, he was already in the Hall of Fame. And he goes, well, you know what? The goofy kid down at the end really likes to call fights. Screw it. let him call the fights at home. And it just became a thing. And as I say, I think he was too good to me. He was too good to me. But I just remember the highlight of my career was doing a fight in the preseason. And, you know, it's the old adage. Like you never lose on your home radio station. You just don't, right? And I can't remember who it was.

But I go so far over the top. Ray Ferraro is doing highlights on TSN with whoever on Let's Hockey, Hockey 2 or whatever. and they're showing this thing, and Ferraro's carving me. Just like, who is this guy? The whole mind, he really didn't understand the subtleties of a Rob Kerr fight call. And we got to joke around after I got to know, Ray, but for him to do that for me, just another example of the generosity and the creativity that he had, like, it was weird. You know, in his hindsight to think back of, I wouldn't have done that.

There was no point in time. I was ever going to say, hey, kid, jump on there. You take care of the off sides or whatever. But yeah, it was part of what he, what made him special. Retro, do you remember, and we don't have it. We don't need to find it. But there is the goal. We've played it a few times over the years on the radio.

Retro's overtime winner? Well, it's the goal where Peter calls it scores. Ret. Warner. Like, Pete is stunned. He's like, what the hell is Rhett Warren? doing there and how is he scoring this goal? Yeah. It was against Nashville.

It was the national. It was a very special goal because Tony Amonti was speaking Jimmy Playfair for putting me on the ice. And obviously Peter was just as confused as I was out there. I was also a little, really? Offensive zone game in the line. Red Warner. Out of the net.

What am I doing? Oh. terrible Peter was amazing at calling stuff and making it look good I got friends that still make fun there was a game in Minnesota where I got the puck and no one came at me so I had to skate with it rather than just get rid of it like I normally do and they die because it was they always say Peter

Rett Warner streaking through middle on the up like and they're like streaking what Yeah, a real blur there. I remember the post game when retro scored, and we played, you know, the goal of the highlight of the night or whatever. We picked that obviously as the highlight of the night. But Rico, Rich Preston, was in to do the coach's interview. And at the best of times when you put a microphone on that man, he couldn't string four words together. Yeah.

Which is completely opposite of who he is in real life, I want to. add. Yes. But he all he did was deadpan something to the effect of, yeah, I just want to take credit for making that coaching decision. And only the way Rico cut. Yeah, great coaching call. Great coaching call. If anybody ever has to go here, you guys just, you can say goodbye. I'm worried about wearing out my welcome. So you tell me when you want to. No, you know, I wanted to do this. You had mentioned earlier about, um, about Peter wondering if Brad for living. Do you think, would Brad take a call or would Brad have my number? I reached out to Brad today.

We heard from Craig Conroy and obviously from many others and we'll go through some of the Twitter stuff. But Brad Trulving, the former general manager of the Flames had this to say. I was sadden to hear the news of Peter's passing today. Not only was Peter the voice of the flames for so many years with so many iconic calls, in a lot of ways he embodied the soul and the spirit of the team. His infectious smile was as synonymous as the saddle roof at the dome, meticulous in his preparation and always welcoming, friendly, and professional. Peter, above all else, was a kind, warm soul.

He will be missed by so many. My family and I send our deepest condolences to Peter, Peter's family and friends. Rest in peace and one more, yeah, baby, for my friend, that from Bradshaw Living. Does Peter know how beloved he is, was, is? Yes. It's what we can hope, right? Because it was so universal. And I think he does.

I think he does, though. I point to Al McNeil's funeral. Pete, you know, needed a little help. So I took him over and, you know, we kind of sat at the back and then kind of just sat. He couldn't stand. So we were sitting on a kind of a bench. And, you know, all of the former Flamesy alumni were there, the current players. And they all came up and they all had the moment with Pete. It was very loud in there, but, you know, they all shook his hand and everything like that. You know, the same thing when Bearcats' celebration of life that, you know,

he doesn't want this. He'd be embarrassed by this, right? This is not Peter Marr, but we need to do this. We have to do this. And there will be a celebration of life for him. We have to do this. Pete was a craftsman. He went to work.

He did his work. He was proud of his work. But, yeah, I'm quite confident, quite confident that he knows where he fits, not in an egotistical way or anything like that. having said that, the picture that the flames gave him when he went into the Hall of Fame is the size of somebody's wall on their house. Like, it's huge. Like, it's incredible.

So if he looked at that, he should be reminded every day of how much he was loved. But I truly believe he knows he was loved. Yeah. He was so great. One of the things that I just thought about today, we must have been doing the show or whatever. and I was telling Kersh when I was talking to him. You moved to Calgary in 07

and I had a little kid and then over the till now you got two and now you've got three and the oldest is doing this and all that and just how time passes. And Peter must have been, he would have been in the room, we'd have been doing the show. And somehow I would have brought up

that I hadn't brought my son who would have been two or three when we moved here. So maybe he's four or five, whatever. I hadn't taken the kid to a game yet. And just the way only the way Peter could, away from the group, just kind of boomer, had a couple tickets.

St. Louis was coming to town. Here's a couple tickets to bring you and your son. Would love to see you come to the game. And it was just like, who does that? You'd think, well, you can get tickets. Bring your kid. You have the wherewithal to find seats. But rather than question it, he went out of his way, got some tickets and quietly kind of

slid them over. Bring your son to a game. Have a good time on me. I hope he has you know, as he would say, hopefully there's lots of goals for him to cheer for and that sort of thing. Just how many times? And you know what? Lanny does the same stuff. Red and I, we talk about it all the way. It doesn't take long. 30 seconds to a minute. Maybe that's all you get with someone like Peter or Lanny. And then they go, they walk away.

You're a better person. Your mood is elevated. It's like, God, I want to be like that guy. That guy, makes me feel great. What a great guy that, what an ability, what a blessed gift to be able to have that ability to change people's moods and lives in an instant. Well, Retro, you can talk about that because you're an active member of the alumni. Like that, that's just the bar that's been set, right? The Lanny McDonald's and the Colin Patterson's and the, you know, Peter Marr, to Alcoats, to Rick Skaggs, to Curtis Glenn Cross, to, you know, Robin Regier to Rhett Warner. to Craig Conroy to it's just that's the bar that you know Pete really is part of that too he's a

huge part of it him at land again I do believe that him and landing do set a bar for and none of us achieve it but we see it and we try to hold ourselves to some account of they have this much respect they have this much class they approach things this professionally they do the right things and tirelessly too lany too he's everywhere he's in montana he's here he's in Toronto he's there he's he's all over he doesn't tire out he does the right thing and approaches it the right way peter marr same way peter was in the room in any room and there were guys that were hockey guys you went over and said hi yeah you went over and made a point of hello peter how are you today wonderful to see you i hope you're doing well like i see a picture him right now i'll go give him a

god damn hug because it just he's just that right like he's he's so important to the fabric of what the flames are. Yeah. Can I build off your ticket story? Sure. Yeah. It's a story about when I learned for the first time the meaning of taxable benefit. Pete, we talked earlier about Joe to go and and, and, and, and drop and everything.

High on grass, red. Peter, Peter was the spokesperson for Intellibet. And he came to me and he said, hey, do you need a mattress? And I said, well, sure, but I have a big bed. Well, how big a bed you got? Well, I got a California king. Okay. He goes, would you mind if you did some like a commercial with me for Intelibat? And I said, no. And he said, yeah, I'll give you a mattress. And needless to say, one of the gentlemen who's currently listening to the program is probably rolling his eyes at this. That didn't go over very well. So that quickly got Kaibach. So I never, I never, I never, I never,

to word professionally about Intelibed. But a week later, there was a knock at the door, and Intelibed, King's size California King got delivered because Peter Marr was doing commercials for him. Yeah, Peter was pretty good that way. We talked about the Frank Sisson's drop-ins all the time. Yeah. Not a sponsor on the radio station,

but somehow the Franksson's Silver Dollar Casino got a lot of love on. We did show. shows there during the lockout. Yeah. We did shows there during the lock, but you're right. Oh, no, there was a cadre of, you know, the who's who of Calgary that absolutely got name checked. Well, wasn't it? I think the best one was because I remember when it was Jason Aldeen, Frank tells me he's a honky talker. This Jason Aldeen, he's a honky talker. And when it was 50 cents, when 50 cents, Oh, right. Hey, Ra, where are you, Pete? Oh, I'm down at the dome. The band 50 cents is playing tonight. And I said, you mean 50 cent? He goes, what? Yeah. Is it 50 cent? What did I say? The band 50 cents. No, it's 50 cent. Oh.

Again, whatever. I forgot. Thank you. God bless you. Yeah. That is one of my. The band. You guys got to, if you guys got to go, if you got to leave, because it's a house party now, uh, joining the group. another guy who spent endless hours in the hot stove lounge and the press box and around Peter Marr and under that same learning tree there's our buddy Pat Steiber. Hi, boys.

How are you doing, Patty? Oh, I'm all right. It's been a, it's been a weird day. It's been a, it's been a rough one. It has been. It was just, I was just listening to, to you guys for the last five minutes or so. and I remember the Intellibed story

and I as soon as he said Joe to go, I heard it in my head and it's just, it's crazy. I was, I hope he doesn't mind me saying, but I was like I was talking to Connie on the phone this morning and we were just talking about whatever and he goes, he goes,

oh, like he had got a text. I don't know. I think it was probably, someone at the flames just texted him and said, oh, and he goes, Peter Marr died and like it was and then it was like about 45 seconds of silence on

the phone line and and you're just kind of like trying to take it in and then is that real? And then yeah, all day it's just been thinking about Pete and thinking about all the people that he's touched and probably

I heard from, I haven't written him back yet but I heard from Bill Rashad. I haven't heard from Yeah, Bill sent me an email as well. Yeah. I just saw his text and Timmy Khalil and I've been talking and just anybody who's who's worked with Pete and, Rhett, you said that like he's up there. I texted, I texted Patter and Colin Patterson was just like he's, he's part of the, part of the fabric from that 89 team. And I did, I don't know.

one of the first things first things that I ever learned about this industry it was like maybe a year into me working and something had happened and Rob came in to our old dungeon

in the old dungeon studio in the 32nd Avenue location and he just basically said like stop complaining and you see this this is professionalism this is Peter Marr.

Peter Marr has been prepping for this game, even though he knows every single player on both teams. He's been prepping for the last nine hours. That's Peter Marr. That's how to be a professional. And if you ever have any doubts about how to go about your business, just do it the way Pete did it. And that was, I must have been 20 years old.

And it's stuck with me ever since. And then just watching Pete go about his business the way that he did. It's got to be similar to. Incredible. Yeah, like when you think about athletes, most recently we talked about Rod Brindamore. If you're on the hurricanes and you see how hard Rod Brindamore works in the time,

are you not going to lift your game? Are you not going to elevate your work ethic to meet that guy? Truly, it was one of those, am I not going to put in? That's Peter Mark. He does not need to do it. He's in the Hall of Fame,

but he still does all of the steps and everything to be at that level. well, I'm going to keep prepping. There's just more prep to do. There's more work to be done as we get ready for this game today. 10%. 10%. If you use 10%, then you've prepared enough. It's the one thing.

I still say that to myself every single day I'm prepping for a show. It's one of about 100 things I learned from that group of Flames Radio, the Peter Marr, Mike Rogers, Rob Kerr group. which was the group when when I first started working myself at that one I'll all take with me for however long the career lasts for is if you if you've used 10% you've you've done enough right yeah I don't remember it specifically but I just remember when I first got to Calgary and at this I'd have been 30 like I was a grown man with kids and I do remember kind of I wanted to watch the man call the game because sometimes we're on the other side and you can kind of see him over there. But just to kind of, without him known, I just, just to watch him work and see the, the papers and just everything. It was, it was like a, like I said earlier, like a conductor. It was just there was the flow.

Now we let it breathe. Now we talk. We go to break that, that whole thing. I just loved watching him do, watching the best do it. A Hall of Famer do his craft. Yeah. It was, it was special.

And you guys had, you guys were riding shotgun, you two. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know about you, Pat, but, you know,

he had specific ways like he wanted things done. Like the, the scoreboards and the intermittent, and during the play, you know, I'll never forget the first time we ever worked together was a live show at West, West Side Arena for professional skate. And we were there on a Sunday after,

noon, August 2003. I remember Oleg Suprikin came by, and I remember we talked to Jerome over the phone. It was a great show. We talked to hockey. It was cool. I got to work with Peter Mark. And we were walking out in the parking lot. Thanks, Pete. This was great. Rob. It was fun. Can't wait for the season to begin. I'll see in a couple weeks. No problem. Pete. Thanks for everything. Turned and he goes, oh, Rob, by the way. Yeah. What's that, Pete? He goes, So when I throw to you during the period for the scoreboard, don't say my name and don't say anything afterwards. Just read the scores. I'll pick it up from there.

Okay, Pete. And that was, right? Pat, I bet you had the same experiences, right? And he was one. Like, there's a few people that you work with because, like, you know, you knew you were working with one of the greats. Like, he was either in the Hall of Fame or you knew he was going to be in the Hall of Fame. And I remember two instances vividly when I had the privilege working with them. One time he said, and when he gave you a tip, like sometimes people give you tips,

and you're like, yeah, whatever, okay, sure, yeah. But when Peter Marr gave you a tip, you're like, and again, there are two that I think about every day. One was like essentially shut the hell up when your guest is talking because he said it much nicer. but it was, I have this thing where like, you'll be talking like, yeah. And I'll throw in a yeah or a mm-hmm. And it was like, Pat, that's distract. It was basically Pat, shut up. It's distracting.

And you're like, okay. And I think about that all the time. And the other one, one of my favorite, one of my favorite Peter Marisms was he goes, Pat, when you're hosting the games, you use the term Calgary Flames too much. And like, we know what city we're in. Like, everybody knows. Just say the flames. Like, you can say the Calgary.

Flames every once in a while, but say the flames. Like we know we're in the city. The flames are a part of the fabric of the city. So just say the team name and you don't have to say Calgary Flames. It sounds way more conversational. And when that guy gave you a tip, you listened and you took it to heart. And so I know exactly what you're talking about, Robbie. He taught me a word. I was, again, I was well into this.

I don't even know if I'm still in the business or this career. I don't know what I'm doing. Anyway, but as I remember, and Peter Marr, he would have been one of our Marr in the more in the mornings or whatever it was. And he was talking about something. The analogy of the example would be something good has happened. And that augers well for the team or for the player moving for. What?

I see you know, augers. I got off to Google that a little bit later and figure out. Yes. So it all very good. That was one of my favorite. And we'd get one every way, maybe once a week. Something would auger well. for that player for the team.

And I know that that was a Peterism. Do you guys remember? I think the statute of limitations has run out, so I think I'm safe with this one. You remember Mike Keenan's last year? If you listen to the post. Do you remember Mike Keenan's last year? Yeah.

If you listen to the post game show, if we could grab all those tapes and everything, about halfway through, something happened on a road trip in St. Louis. And when Mike and Pete came back, those two in the post game would always say, well, Mike, all they need is focus. Now, nobody could see them doing this, but Pete and Mike were in the hot stove lounge doing this. And so clearly Keenan had done something and said it that way. And those two were cutting each other.

Do you guys remember? Like, there was times where that would go on. And I'll never forget, because you were the guy, the only guy with the same. out of balls to call for Tienin to be fired, boom, I remember that. And I just remember that you know, in those postgame shows, Pete and Mike would be, they got to be focused.

They got to be focused. And nobody could see them doing the hand gestures. And they would just make themselves, they pissed themselves laughing. Yeah. What was the other one? Remember the Pete's favorite player was Andre Zuzin? And that was a thing. And there was like no rhyme or reason to it, but like,

it would always be the inside joke with Mike and Pete is, oh, Andre Zuzan, that's My guy. Well, and then of course, this is what I've told, Redd, the catalyst, Mark Savard.

That's right. He was the catalyst. I forget how that came to be, but he and Rogers, they would have those things, those inside jokes. Well, you know,

Pete, he is really the catalyst for this off. That's right, Mike, but they really miss a catalyst of his, of his nature.

Just tremendous. I thought of Mike Rogers a lot today because those two guys. I'm being told it was Mark Savard. That's what I'm being told by. Yeah, the catalyst was Marks of our time listeners. It's listening tonight. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I think about Susan one. Thank you. I forgot. And was it you or was it Mike that brought up the Porsche jacket that he wore? Do you remember that? Yeah. Zuzan did interviews in the dressing room wearing a Porsche jacket. The only player that I ever remember doing anything remotely close to that.

Was he the one that stole all the soaps, right? No, that was Hammerlick. But I was thinking, if Zuzon, was wearing a Porsche jacket. I was on that team. I'm shocked I wasn't riding his ass. Yeah, it was a red, one of those red satin Porsche jackets. And that, and that's where when you said, Zuzin, that reminded me, Mike, you got to look good. One of those red Porsche jackets. And, and Pete and Mike would then just piss themselves laughing through the whole broadcast, right? Jack, let's roll through some, man, we've got, I said we were going to do some, some comments. We've got a bunch of

We were going to go through them at some point. But some of the tweets, we can just bang out some of the tweets from earlier today. Again, all walks of life. There was, of course, Eric Francis, great shot of Eric with Peter Marr. Really good, really good article. Yeah, really good, really good article. Yeah, go to sportsnet.com. Yeah, go to sportsnet.com.

A man of immense class, integrity and heart, Mar was a mentor to many, a comforting voice for the flames for 32 years. Impossible not to love the man. There is a reason we named the Good Guy Award after him as good a guy as their was lit up the room when he showed up. I mean, yeah, it's, it's tremendous. So that's, that's Eric Francis. You should, you should have seen, you should have seen Blake Coleman at the Good Guy award a number of months ago.

Like, Blake Coleman's not from here, never worked with Peter Marr. And yet you could tell like the reverence that he had. It's, it's really impressive. I think the only guy who, on the team who worked with Pete is, is the captain. But, but you, you could really tell that Blake Coleman was like, yeah. This guy means something to this city. It was really cool. I think there would be some scenarios where guys would be like,

I got a hangout after practice for what is this thing? And that was not the case with the Peter. There was legitimate pride from the guys to win that and to be part of that group with Peter Mark. Joe Holborn was one of the first winners, was he not? I think so, yeah. Yeah. And I remember that, like Joe, it just meant the whole world to him because he had the connection, right? Yep.

There was that message from Derek Wills. again, what do they say? You don't want to be the one that replaces the great one. You want to replace the guy that replaces the great one. He had those huge shoes. Biggest honor of my life was given the opportunity to follow in Peter's footsteps. Huge shoes that not I nor anyone was ever going to be able to fill. Peter, Hall of Fame. Hall of Famer, who is the voice for generations. Also a great person. Good stuff there from, from Willsey. We can skip the Steinberg because we got the big, we got the real deal.

I want to read it. I want to see if it's spelled correctly. Peter's incredible. I would know, Pat. There it is. A rock star who only carried himself like a teammate, a friend, and a mentor. Rest easy, Pete. What an honor to know you. Well said, Patrick.

Absolutely. You forget how many lives this guy has touched. Another sad day in Calgary. There's Ryan Leslie, who, of course, with, in as many roles, Flames TV, Sportsnet. Peter Marr, the good guy will be dearly missed. There's that smile. and the sweater vest from Pete. Great stuff from Leslie there.

Wes Gilbertson. He was also part of that good guy award. He would kind of help Pete with that. Grew up listening to Peter Marr first. Started on the Flames Beat. I was in pinch me mode to be working alongside him. Whenever I was writing a historical feature, I could hardly wait to call him and hear his memories.

He was always so generous with his time and loved sharing his flame stories. I hope he realized that for so many of us, he was part of those flames stories. Hall of Fame broadcaster, rest in peace, from Wes Gilbertson. Wes and I had Pete went for seafood in Boston one time, and it was just one of those great. Pete told stories, the East Coast stories, the whole nine yards, West just hung off every word. He's genuine about what he's saying for sure.

Yeah, good stuff. Glenn Campbell, long time TV broadcaster and another legend. Sad to hear about the past of Peter Marr, a legend on the mic, one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet. May there be many yeah babies up in heaven. Rest easy, my friend. Great guy. Love Glenn Campbell. Me too.

Yeah. Super guy. Eric DeHatchik, gutted by the news of Peter Marr's passing. It hits like a death in the family. We traveled together for 19 years covering the flames on the road. One of the great broadcasting voices of his generation and wonderful human being. Rest in peace, old friend. We talked about Duhaw, how there was the time when road games weren't on TV.

and they would be doing intermissions. DeHachachick's like they're smoking in the in the control room. We've ordered in buckets at chicken. We're kind of listening to Peter, call the game and then in the intermission. So what did you think of the second? Oh, they got to move their feet. They got to get pucks in deep. They really got to get on the bottom.

They got no, you're not watching the game. You're half listening, half not. They were doing that for years. Yeah. Eric DeHatchik, also part of the Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame guy there. Jack Michaels. Again, the bitter rival, play-by-play voice for the Oilers, an absolute legend as a broadcaster and a kind man who always went out of his way

to make newcomers feel part of the league from the beginning. Proud to call him a friend. I'll miss him. Nice stuff there. Yeah, I remember that. I remember, you know, Pete, Pete was a little up, I think a little off at the beginning with Jack because Jack was American. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. And he felt the Canadian should have that job. but, you know, but Jack reached out and they became friends. I, you know, I'm nothing, you know, Pete loved Jack. Don't get me wrong.

But at the beginning, it was just like, what, you know, he's taking our job here. Yeah. You good guy, Jack Michaels. Did you, I don't know if you got, did you guys tell the, I keep reading the tweets and then I'll tell the Gretzky story. I'll tell the Gretzky story later. Yeah, we kind of did. Oh, you told the, Rob, you told the Gretzky story?

Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was, Pete was so, Pete actually told me that story again here not that long ago, just because we were talking. And that meant the world to him. Like, that meant the world to have his credibility called into question. And then to have the greatest hockey player ever to stand up for him. Yeah. It meant the world. Yeah. Not a bad guy to come to your defense. It's just a, I don't know, it's one of the stories that really drives home like. So, but I could tell you. How much he was respected, right? But I could tell you a different story about the. Oilers and Peter Marr. In 2006, I don't remember, guys remember a plucky team out of Carolina winning a Stanley Cup

over a vaunted, you know, unbeatable juggernaut led by Colin McDavid or something. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Can't word played on that team? He did, yeah. Wardy. Yeah, were you allowed to talk to him on?

No, I was not. Did something happen there? Yeah, well, somebody decided it would be a lot of fun as if we referred to ourselves as the home of the Carolina Hurricanes. And so we, this is a good idea. You remember that? Yeah.

And we actually got banners or pinnets or whatever, pennies or whatever, put them up. And we were the home of the Carolina Hurricanes. Margo's down there for preseason. Same donkey goes up to him and goes, we're not going to talk to you. Why not? Well, you were the home of the Carolina Hurk? What are you talking about? So Peter's calling me and Kelly and going, what am I supposed to do?

here because I don't even think he knew we did it. Like I just, it was one of those, it was a bit more than anything. And, and, Pete was taking the brunt of it. Eventually got worked out. But yeah, Pete, it turned out a couple times Pete ended up paying some of the

shenan. Yeah, the meat shield for the dummies back in studio. You remember Gola? Oh, yeah, of course. Oh, yeah. It's not about me. It's about it. Pete's like, what is this song about? What happened here? It's okay. I'm sorry, Pete. Just know that I'm sorry, Peter. I'm very sorry.

We saw Craig Button. Again, former Flames general manager now, of course, big part of TSN. Legend on the microphone, even more legendary as a person, condolences and sympathies to Peter's family and loved ones and many friends in the hockey world. It's, yeah, we'll roll through what we've got here, but it's endless. There were so many online today. there's Chris Cuthbert in his own right, one of the greatest of all time. The Peter Marr Ward says it all, sincerity, integrity, dedication, and respect. Peter, was that along with a passionate,

high energy Hall of Fame call. Condolences to all who were impacted by Peter in the Calgary sports community. Great guy. Called the golden goal alongside Cuthbert 2010, right? The radio call from Peter, the TV call from Chris. Was Cheach Pete's color analyst in there?

He was. Yeah, Cheech and Howard Berger was. was the host. Yeah, I was going to play, but I don't know. You're talking about Howard Berger working at the, that's the guy working at the funeral home now, right? I don't know. So that's from C.C.

John Shannon, long time with Hockey Night in Canada, of course, then Sportsnet. Peter Marr became a mainstay in Calgary as the voice of the flames. In the second year of the franchise, followed a stint in Toronto as the Leafs radio voice. Shocked to hear of his passing today, as much a part of the flames as any coach or player. A former recipient of the Foster.

Hewitt award, Peter's famous, yeah, baby became his calling card with every flames victory. Born a maritime or died in Albertan, Canadian through and through. One more, yeah, baby for Peter. Great stuff there from John Shannon. And that's kind of where we sit. We could go, I don't know what to do. I don't want to keep you guys all night.

I said we put some messages on. Do you want to go through some, Jack? We can, again, if you need to go, please, please go. If you want me to go. No, I don't. I just, it was truly, it was one of those things. Well, you're not going to talk like I, like I have a reputation of not wanting to do things forever. But it was, Red was kind of the, the guiding light, because we're, is, has there been anything said?

Has the team said anything? Has the team said anything? Well, we got to do something. It was just this afternoon. I said at the outset, you know, if 960 were still here, you'd defer to them because that would be the whole, that would be Peter's home. But if they're, we can't let that keep keep that there needs to be some something for Pete. It just felt like. Yeah.

But I said it a couple of hours ago, I just want to reiterate. You know, hello to his family who are watching tonight. And, and quite honestly, you're laughing and having a couple of hours ago. and having a couple of pops because they know Pete would be having a couple of pops. I have been told that he would like to, I was wrong that he would like to actually have been part of this show. Yeah. Before I think I said he wouldn't,

he would have hated this show. I'm wrong. Apparently he would have liked to have been on it. Wow. So they're watching. And we know so many people are that you guys are, you're doing an incredible workbook. Like this is,

you know, Pat would have been doing this six weeks ago. Like, you know, I was going to ask what show are, yeah, What show are you prepping for? Which one is?

People are in the comments wanting to know if you're taking calls when we're done. Just so you know. Just give your cell phone out, Pat. Just do it one at a time. What happened to 960? I don't know. Yeah. It's been a tough.

I'm just on holiday. What are you talking about? A tough one. How was? I can. I'll roll through some here. This is from Bro. Bro.

used to record Peter's radio broadcast on my cassette tape, record the Flames game on VHS and then sync up the audio because Pete was leagues above whoever was calling the Flames games. There'd be a lot of people. They wanted to, they'd find a way. In the later years, when you could take your PVR and kind of press pause or whatever and then sync it up so they could hear, they could hear Peter. Do you not have a story about that answering working the board one time and answering angry phone calls from people because they couldn't sync up the game?

Yeah, and I was like, what do you want me to do? They were mad at Pat because they couldn't sink up the game. I'm sorry. I'm just here telling him when he's coming back from break. I don't know what I don't know what I can do for you. As much a legend and a goat that he was even better a human being. Broken heart, tears of my eyes, deepest condolences to the Marr family. We all love you, Peter, rest of peace.

There, little dog grew up listening to Peter. Truly appreciate the show. Thank you from Red Deer. Tracy is in. he'll always be the true voice of the flames greatly missed. Rest in peace. Condolences to the flames and friends. Here's Dan.

It's been 22 years that every time I hear the Detroit elimination call, it gives me goosebumps. With no voice almost. Yeah. A $4.99 for the charity. You know what? We'll find a way maybe, of course, Peter's charity of choice. We'll find out from the family. It's not going to be a, we'll see how it ends up here.

Peter Marr's last radio call being Goodro's first game and goal. And today we lose him. It would have been Johnny's 33rd birthday. There was that. It was Johnny's 33 today. Earlier today. Yeah, there is that. 33.

Yeah. Do you remember being at that draft in Minnesota and Peter Handling coming over to you and I and going, hey, here's a phone number. Yeah, Pat, sorry, you were there too. Yeah. It came over to the three of us and said, hey, here's a number of Jim Montgomery. He coached the kid we just drafted in the U.S. H.

challenge. We're like, who? Johnny Goodrow. Why would we talk to a fourth rounder? Just call them. Like, I'll never forget that. Yeah. Yep. You could tell that they thought they had something special on their hands. Yeah. 1399. Therefore, Peter Marr from our buddy Star. Go Flames Go, 1989, 10 bucks. Used to listen to his calls while doing homework playing road hockey in the trailer court

to work, from work, from our own soccer, hockey games. Again, it's a radio thing. but I Pete it was always he was just the connection I remember the day they traded for Kiprasoff and I remember and again it's kind of Peter broke the news it was mid-morning on a Sunday or whatever it was and he kind of he wrapped it up so again the flames trade for Mika Cyprakoff on the San Jose sharks and it was they traded for their third string goalie Peter's breaking in. We got his name wrong.

It's like, oh, we'd know his name very soon. Well, there's old Bill Terwilliger. I used Peter's vinegar trick one night at the sundown or worked like a charm. Rest in peace to the legend. Yeah, baby. There's moldy ace. We'll miss the yeah babies. My dad recorded the 89 final live off the radio.

We have that call and much more on a cassette tape somewhere. Wow. Had the opportunity to meet him in March of 2019, doing the Flames dressing room experience, such a nice man. Haley Thompson, this is Peter's granddaughter. I'm not going to get through it.

Our whole family is watching live and so grateful for the sport. Yeah, baby, forever. Our buddy man deep coming in. Poor man deep. It's tough. I've never done it, but if you don't do the super chat right, you end up spending the dough and you don't get your message put in,

but he will fight it. Yeah. Peter will forever be a legend. He was such a classy, man, absolute professional and the best to do it. We're so lucky and blessed to have him as the voice of the flames. Statue for Pete. While we're putting up a new rink, if we're looking, why not?

We'll get one. Lanny gets one and Pete gets one. I'd be fine with that. I'd be fine with that. Andre Zuzan gets one. I met Pete in 2017 for five minutes. The nicest, most amazing person shook my hand. Loved when I told him.

I was yelling, yeah, baby, around my living room after the goal in 04. Love it. Joey, I'm sorry to hear this. Listening to Peter Call Flames Games is one of my core memories growing up. Even as we watched TV, my mom would turn the volume down on the TV. We'd listen to Peter. Mitch at AAA, I was lucky enough to have his son as a coach. It was a big thrill when I got to meet the great Peter Marr.

He'll be missed. Thank you for all the memories and the legendary, yeah, baby. And I'm sure it was an honor to know the coach, too. But the Mar family needs to know how much he was loved by all of us. I've listened since he started in YYC and we'll never forget. God bless you all. That's the other thing. You know,

you certainly hope Peter knew. The family knows. They're watching. They have to know. Yeah, I think so. I mean, you know, just back and forth with Jeff this morning. Yeah. You know, they do, but still difficult to process, right?

Yeah. I grew up in Golden would get the radio through the air at night. I'd listen to my bedroom listening to a fuzzy broadcast of Flames games. Peter's voice lives rent free in my head. Uh, got fridged. Peter did radio ads for my dad's dealership. He took me and my brother on a tour of the dome and for a few years even took us to the flames dressing room after the game to meet a player. Walshie buddies. Peter will always be the voice of the flames. Simply the voice of my childhood and young adult life. I could see the game by listening to his call simply the best.

I went through all my school years listening to Peter, absolute legend. I'd imitate his calling style during street hockey games. When I played, I'm in my net playing the game in front of me. That happened a lot with the guys. We'd be bullshit and having beers and telling stories about the games and this and that on the airplay. And you would try and replicate Peter Marr's voice during the play. You couldn't do it, but you would try. Sam, Peter was one of a kind, such a pro, nice guy.

met him at Madison Square Garden. We did a road trip to New York. He saw us, came to say hi, class act all around. We'll always be able to hear tonight, live from the Saddle Dome. You can put it in the wind column and yeah, baby. Rest easy, Peter. It's truly, I just, the way he would start that broadcast tonight, live, it just, it's the national hockey league. Yeah, yep.

Peter Marr's played by play call just as good as watching on TV. description, vividly knew exactly what was happening. That's the other thing. You can, you can do radio. It doesn't mean you're doing it well. But to, to the, just the, the X's and O's, knowing how to call a game to describe it to someone who's not watching it, is it's a talent unto itself. Yeah.

There's Sean met Peter once at the children's hospital. I'm not sure if it was a scheduled appearance or not, but he was there, just talked to anybody who would stop and say hello. amazing human his positivity infectious while fans overreacted and freak out he was always calm and rational that would be our thing he would always

if we were doing more in the morning or doing the show geez Pete they've lost five they've lost seven they've lost 15 in a row this is terrible oh but they're due for a bounce now you know it got them right where they want them boys Pete was the best well you know but that's 16th one you don't lose 16 in a row very often

and teams don't do it. What was the losing streak in 89? He'd always bring that one up. Well, remember back in 889, the boys, they lost. And we remember what happened in 1989, don't we? Well, that was the beauty of, of, with Doug being his color guy, Doug Barclay. Because Doug didn't have that same filter. Doug didn't have that same sense of patience.

And I vividly remember driving home from Saskatchewan and listening because the game was, you know, middle of the, you know, night driving home. And they got just doors blown off. And they go to Doug Barclay for the hardest working flame. I'm giving it to the trainers. There wasn't a single skater out there that was worth it. So Pete had to work hard with Doug to kind of even it up at times. He had that he had like he was the best ambassador and spokesperson for the flames.

And he would always put a positive. spin on it. And yet, and yet got a lot of, got a lot of flak sometimes for being too excited when the visiting team scored, right? Like he always, he always, and it's one of the things that I always appreciated. He, he made big goals in the game feel like big goals, even if it wasn't the flame scoring. He was just the best. There are two teams and yeah, he, he, he didn't put it, you don't put it in the wind column when the oathers or the, the ducks win. And you don't get, babies from the visiting team, but he always gave the game it's due, and he always made it so that you were, you were listening to a really good hockey game. And it's some of that I

always, always appreciate it. The statute of limitations have run out on this one too, and God rest his soul. But remember Ken King wouldn't allow visitor highlights on the scoreboard. That's right. And Joe Stack. And what was the record that Joe Sackic set? And they didn't show the replay in the building. And I'm trying to remember what it was. And Pete went out, Pete went out of his way to describe it and come back and describe it. Because he knew what was going on.

Yeah. Like it was a very significant milestone. Not to get totally different, but along the same vein. Again, Peter was great at, like you say, calling and giving the goal it's due. But yeah,

inside the rink, we don't need to see the visitor's goals. The show at once and that's it. And it was a Halloween game. And I remember, But the flames were getting soundly beaten. And but they had this kind of image. It was of a pumpkin.

Oh, I was thinking about Andrew Walker and I still text each other. Happy Halloween. When the flames are getting blown out, we would all, happy Halloween. By the time the third or fourth goal went in, there's,

it's just straight to the happy Halloween. Five one. Happy Halloween. It was Washington. Yeah. So we're like, Hey, happy Halloween, pal.

Hey, guys. Happy Halloween. Halloween. Hey. It's so funny. So funny. There's the Red Mile. Run down. Words not enough to express true feelings. Thank you for everything. Pete. Rest. Peacefully. There is only one. Here's Eric. What a legend. I remember as a kid listening to Peter Marr during the 85, 86 season as they beat the Oilers got me hooked on the best voice in the game. The 89 run. The 04 run was special to. Rest in peace, Peter. here's Mike privileged to have worked at Fan 960 with Peter got to interact on several occasions

he was so professional and kind to me at every event we were at together an absolute legend it was one of those things like this guy is too he's too important to be this nice to me I'm nowhere there's no reason he should be this kind to me because I'm a level in society there's levels in society and I'm not at that level here's Matt

I met Peter as he was walking from the broadcast booth and down the stairs. He stopped and talked to me with kindness and passion. We discussed hockey like I was the only person in the dome. My wife had no idea why I was so happy who I was talking to. I have to say it was a moment I'll never forget. Rest easy, Peter. You did so much for a city game and league. I'm laughing because it's two things.

How he never missed time from having to go pee and getting back in time because there's no bathrooms in the press spot. The press box bathroom is the fans bathroom in the third level. So for Pete, whatever, he's got to stop talking to people in the press box, which is hard, and then get across the catwalk, around over, up into the bathroom, along with the fans, wash your hands, get back to, everybody's talking, Peter, Peter, Peter, Bob. Wow. How he didn't miss airtime to go to the back.

A second period on a Saturday night of an 8 o'clock game. None of those people could drive, right? So you knew they were helping the power play through Peter. Yeah. Kevin, Peter Marr, voice of my youth. Remember listening to him when I was a wee lad, sad time when he retired in 2014. Rest in peace, Peter. Nortalo, Peter Mar, when we moved to Canada, we couldn't afford to have cable.

We'd listen to the radio. If we could do it all over again, I would still pick the radio with Peter Mar. Rest in peace legend. Here's our buddy Mike Gould, truly legendary lineup in exactly the send-off. Peter deserves thank you all for a tribute. four of you carry on his legacy well just lucky just blessed to to have been somewhere in that orbit with one of the all-time grades i still feel like i just said there's certain levels of society yeah i'm doing this but i don't feel like i'm the one that should i yeah it's there's pike from japan

sad day but heartening to see how many of us have great memories of peter as an american fan peters calls or legendary solidified me being a fan. I remember sitting in my room my goalie pads as a kid listening to the Red Wings call. Rest in peace, Peter. Here's one from Melbourne, Australia. It was Peter who made me fall in love with hockey and the flames. Forever grateful for the honor of having been able.

You guys would remember we would get letters for Peter. Fan mail. All over the world. Finland, Sweden. They come to the radio station, right? You remember that? Yeah. Yeah.

I was going to say, like, there's, I always feel silly. If so, like, he was a celebrity, right? Like, he was a celebrity. Did you guys mention the hot tub, uh, the hot tub pictures? I was just thinking that. I was just thinking that. The green hard hat, the hot tub. That was the front of the sun, wasn't it?

Yeah, yeah, it sure was. Because we had that in the studio. Absolutely. It was right there on that pillar, uh, right over top of the shortcut. Yeah. I remember it vividly. And I was another one of those things. He just wasn't sure if this is the right thing or not.

It's too much about me, guys. He had to do it. You're right. He just took one for the team on that one. Yep. Peter hooked me into being a Flames fan when I moved from Montreal in 97. His legacy of professionalism, personal warmth, and integrity will live on much loved the Marr family and the Flames organization.

I'm trying to, there's so many of these that are kind of all the, it feels like God have all be different. There's Nikki. Absolute legend. I'll never forget listening to so many games with my dad and my brother.

Met him a few times and he was so kind and generous with his time. You can put it in the wind column. Thank you, Peter. We'll never forget you. Here's Drew. Peter got inducted into the Hall of Fame.

I sent a message into Mike Richards. Refer to him as a beacon of humanity. Peter befriended me when I was a broadcasting student at Mount Royal. Always had time for me when I worked for the flames. Rest easy. Your light will shine on. nice stuff there from grew here's a legend kim peter always had time for the fans i had many

encounters with peter right back to the 89 flames russia trip the o four run and right up to his retirement thoughts are with peter's family rest in peace peter mar that from santa santa santa squared right now there is oh i defer to the it it's like like rats been saying there's levels that's a different level of santa well I want to thank you guys for for coming on and doing this. It just, it felt well, I, I think maybe it's been, it's been two hours. When boom, when boom, text to me, I go at what time? I'll be home just after eight.

And he goes, yeah, I got Rob at like 7.10 looking to do 20 minutes. So you know how he is. And then I got on 8.08 first thing I hear. Oh, Rob's still there. I told Jack. What is it surprising at all? I said, send Steinberg a link, but he's not going to be able to come on to like after eight. So we'll never get him.

But send him a link anyway. but I guess I should have known and it's, I mean, it's partly it's rob it, it's robbing me, whatever, but there's so much to say, but what else can you say? Except that he was the best and is universally loved.

And it doesn't get better than him. But again, like you say, Redd, for some reason, the planet's a lie that we all got some Peter Mar in our life. and everyone is better because of it. All of us are richer and better because of the legend Peter Marr in our lives.

I'm sadden for the folks that didn't get to experience in the true fashion of radio. Do you know what I mean? In today's world, since he's retired, sports coverage, media, everything has changed. It's kind of sad because if anyone's watching this,

they can see the emotion that we have in our thoughts and our feelings for Peter, and that was brought on by his abilities to call those games over that crackly radio. Yeah. And it's too bad more people don't get to experience it. Can I read one text from a listener? Of course. From Jeff Marr. Thanks to all of you for making this shit day a little bit better.

Marzie. Not a boy, Marzie. Happy to, pal. Can I, before I go, can I just say one, thing. And I want to hit this one home because he's a mechanic. He's an artist. He's a great broadcaster. But the one thing I don't want people to forget about Peter Marr was he loved this city. And he was a philanthropist. He was the first person to give back. And I think you guys can back me up on this. That, you know, one of the first lessons he taught me was you're so lucky to have this

opportunity to do what you do. And you have a responsibility to give back. And, Pat, I know the incredible work that you do and the charities that you've served. And the same thing, Boomer Red. I, you know, Retro's Bolerama remains to this day, one of my favorite charity events of all time. But Peter Marr made that part of us. He made us do those things because that's the responsibility we have to give back to our community. I love doing it. You love doing it. We all love doing it.

But that was non-negotiable for Pete. It was about giving back. And, you know, he would often, I'd ask him, geez, I got a request to do this. Well, are you available? Yeah, then you go do it. And that's the one thing I want people to remember about Pete, too. Yeah. The greatest.

I said it on the other show. I remember when, because I had heard the voice, lived in Red Deer for a while, short time in Edmonton. And somehow I had not, I had not made, had a visual of Peter Marr. And when I met him for the first time, is like, where is it all coming from? Where is the pipes, the base, the energy? Where from this kind, smallish gentleman. This is the guy who elevates and is roaring through my radio during these games,

which is another one of those ones. I just, I need to watch this man work. And there was just nothing, nothing else quite like it. I'm willing to let anybody have the last, I don't know what the last word is. If it's a yeah, baby or a win column, but. Not the last word, but thank you. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you, Pat, for making some time. Retro, thank you for being here. Thanks, guys. Thank you for inviting me, boys. And I, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, started listening to Pete. I, I, uh, I, uh, first time that I, uh, first started listening was on CFR.

And, uh, it was, I was in grade eight and, uh, uh, CF. and, uh, uh, C, uh, CF. CFR used to do this cool, this cool thing where they did oldies in the daytime and then all sports after about four o'clock. Storm and Norman. I would just, I would listen, the hot stove lounge and just listening to Pete call games. And I remember, you know, there is the, the Tyler Moss run of late, of the late 90s and, and, you know, some of the, the Valerie Burray days and like the, the dark days. of the flames and yet I just remember Peter always made me feel like the flames that some of those teams that I listened to in the late 90s they they were straight ass and yet

Pete made me believe that those teams could make the playoffs and my friends are like no dude the flames suck I'm like no no I like Peter Marr made you believe that this team was and and I remember listening late at night going to sleep listen to Pete call play by play and then into the hot stove lounge and then to work with that man man for the 10 years that I had the opportunity to work with him and to be on the same broadcast as him for four or five years is truly one of the honors of a lifetime. So thanks for letting me come talk about him, guys. Hey, happy you made it.

And as a listener, I do listening to Postgame. It was always tough when Peter and Mike or whoever, when Peter was done on the post game show and they'd throw the break. I knew that the next dummy was just. going to be there by himself taking phone calls. It was hard to listen to that next guy. Once Peter left, that next guy, and they dragged it on forever. Would you shut up and go to bed already?

Well, I'll babble my way through this, but for all the players and the alumni that played the game, we absolutely adored you, Peter Marr, we loved you, and it was an honor for you to call our name and give us the honor of talking about the game we all love. God love you, Pete.