from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

The life and talk of Harry Neale comes with a built-in list of his best one-liners.

Remember this one? Remember that one? He doesn’t remember them all now — he’s turns 85 on Wednesday — “I probably stole a lot of them,” Neale said on the phone, but to those who watch hockey, love hockey, have lived hockey, they have their favourite Harry moments.

The Harry lines that will live forever.

“Last season we couldn’t win at home. This season we can’t win on the road. My failure as a coach is that I can’t think of anywhere else to play.”

That one is still going 40 years old after Neale last coached in the NHL. His life in hockey has been rather remarkable. He played junior on a Memorial Cup championship Marlies team that included Bob Pulford, Bob Baun, and Bob Nevin, and Carl Brewer.

“My dream was to play in the NHL,” said Neale, who coached seven seasons in the NHL and seven seasons before that in the WHA and went on to become a Hall of Fame broadcaster, working Hockey Night In Canada among other shows.

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