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Big but Sad News from Hockey This Morning on NHL Home Ice
by Patrick Hoffman on 04/06/11 at 10:46 AM ET
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It has already been quite the week for XM’s NHL Home Ice but the news from it’s morning show, Hockey This Morning, is the biggest news of all.
The show’s producer for the last six seasons, Shawn Lavigne, a.k.a. “Big Country”, announced this morning that he is leaving the show and the channel for a new job as a producer at the start-up TSN Radio.
If you’re a fan of the show, than you know how big of a loss this is. “Big Country” was a hard worker who along with Mike Ross (Rossy) and Aron Papernick (The Paper Boy), delivered the goods every morning. He was funny, loved the band Abba and was a sad fan of the Ottawa Senators.
I would like to take this time to thank Shawn for always agreeing to stop by the Goal Line Report and give us his thoughts and for also allowing me to blog for the NHL Home Ice web site from 2008-09. It was an absolute pleasure to listen to you each and every morning and we at the Goal Line Report and Kukla’s Korner wish you nothing but the best at your new job.
Keep it real, Big Country!
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Sad day for HTM indeed. It won’t be the same without Shawny, the fans love him and he just a great on air personality. It sucked when Scotty left HTM and not Big Country too. So who is going to be Rossy’s sidekick? Good luck Shawny, you will be missed my friend.
Posted by biskitt from NY on 04/06/11 at 03:10 PM ET