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NHL Home Ice Personalities
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Peter Berce
Peter Berce is the technical producer for Hockey This Morning, co-Host of the War Room and all around great guy (at least that's what they tell him). He has been in broadcasting for 9 years starting as a producer in Toronto, Canada. He's a CNN junkie (loves that Kyra Phillips). His favorite hockey player is Anze Kopitar of the LA Kings and his pound for pound best player in the NHL is Jarome Iginla of the Calgary Flames. His favorite sports recollection would be watching ABC's Wide World of Sports - The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat (remember the ski jumper).
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Boomer
Jim “Boomer” Gordon fills many roles, including producer, personality and all-around sports guru. You can find Boomer as the host and producer of both The Point and Face Off, but he pops up everywhere on the channel from time to time. A favorite of the everyman, Boomer cut his teeth working on In The Slot with Phil Esposito for the past three hockey seasons, and this is actually his first broadcasting role, having spent the first part of his life as a sports fan – not a sports personality. His favorite team is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Rob Higgins
Co-host of The Point: Fantasy Friday, Rob is known for creating the one-and-only Higgins Fantasy Index and the corresponding statistic "H.F.I." He also happens to be the singer/songwriter for the indie rock outfit Dearly Beloved. Their new album, Make It Bleed, is being released by Rounder Records in the U.S. and Anthem Records in Canada.
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Mick Kern
Mick Kern is host of The War Room Mick has been in love with the game of hockey ever since Ken Dryden stoned the Bruins back in 1971. From that point on, hockey became the focal point of his life, to the extent that his father threatened to throw out his O-Pee-Chee hockey card collection in an effort to get Mick to concentrate on math studies, instead of goals against averages. Suffice to say, a career in advanced mathematics was not in the cards. After quickly realizing he wasn't the second coming of Ken Dryden, Mick got involved in radio, initially on the music side of things. After a decade of touring across Canada in the back of smelly vans, Mick returned to his first love... hockey.
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Scott Laughlin
Scott Laughlin hosts Power Play after guiding Hockey This Morning for four seasons. Scott has worked in sports broadcasting for the past 18 years and has worked in both radio and television having seen stops at Global TV and The Score along the way. He’s been a TV anchor and reporter and has hosted sports talk discussion both in radio and TV for years. Scott has been a huge fan of the Dallas Cowboys for more than 30 years now and lives and dies with the team each and every Sunday. He’s also a passionate fan of 80’s metal music and lists KISS and Motley Crue as his favorite rock bands. From the age of 12 Scott had the goal of working in sports media. He eats, drinks, and sleeps sports and feels fortunate to be doing what he’s doing… getting paid to do something he’d be doing anyway.
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Shawn Lavigne
Shawn “Big Country” Lavigne is producer and co-host of Hockey This Morning. A grizzled 20-year broadcasting veteran he was a star on every patch of ice in hayfields on his farm in Oxford Station, Ontario. “Big Country” travels between Toronto and the booming metropolis of Jasper, Ontario (ok so it isn't that booming) on weekends to visit his miniature horse and wife on their hobby farm.
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Terry Mercury
Terry Mercury co-hosts Ice Cap. He's been in broadcasting for 25 years and counts the Montreal Canadiens' four straight Stanley Cups in the late '70's, the Habs-Soviet Red Army game on New Year's Eve '75, the Habs beating Gretzky's Kings in '93 to win the Stanley Cup and seeing his cousin represent Canada at the World Junior hockey championships in 2008 as his best hockey moments. His favorite hockey people are Jean Beliveau and Jarome Iginla and of course his favorite team is the Montreal Canadiens. His favorite non-hockey sports moments? Muhammad Ali getting his heavyweight title back in what was then Zaire and 1979 when the Habs won the Stanley Cup, the Pittsburgh Steelers took the Super Bowl and the Pittsburgh Pirates were World Series champs.
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Mike Ross
Mike Ross hosts Hockey This Morning and has spent over 15 years in broadcasting, on both sides of the microphone. One of Canada’s top sports radio producers, “Rossy” has graduated to where he always wanted to be: on the air. His favorite sports memory was playing street hockey with his grandfather in goal. Maurice "Rocket" Richard is Mike's top hockey hero and he has a fondness for playing golf, drinking wine, smoking cigars and of course, BBQing. Mike counts the Ottawa Senators as his hockey team and for baseball, it’s the Yankees all the way. He’ll never forget 1999 when he sipped from the Memorial Cup as the arena announcer for the Ottawa 67s.
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Jamie Shalley
Jamie is a veteran of nearly two decades in radio and television broadcasting. He started his career in his hometown, the hockey hotbed of Thunder Bay, Ontario as a television reporter and anchor. Prior to joining the XM roster in 2005, Jamie was a host and reporter with the Score Television Network, the TEAM Sports Radio Network, and FAN 590 Sports Radio in Toronto. In his spare time, Jamie loves to golf, travel, and play guitar very poorly.
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Joe Thistel
Joe Thistel is the Director of Programming, Sports and Talk, at XM Canada and is a true veteran of Canadian broadcasting. An award winning writer and producer, Joe has worked with some of North America’s most recognizable personalities and has collaborated and consulted with virtually every radio network in Canada. Joe keeps Boomer in check on The Point, while overseeing the programming of radio’s only 24 hour channel. His favorite sports memory is Frazier knocking Ali on his can, while his sports franchise is the Chicago Black Hawks. Why? Two words: Bobby Hull.
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