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}}{{Infobox person | name = Brian McFarlane | image = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=y|1931|8|10}} | birth_place=New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = | employer= | residence= | relations= | nationality=Canadian | years_active= | alma_mater=St. Lawrence University | occupation = Sportscaster, author }} Brian McFarlane (born August 10, 1931) is a Canadian television sportscaster and author. He is also the Honorary President of the Society for International Hockey Research. He is the son of the prolific writer Leslie McFarlane who wrote many of the early Hardy Boys books. He is best known as a broadcaster on Hockey Night In Canada and as an author of hockey books. BiographyEarly life and careerBrian McFarlane was raised in Whitby and Ottawa Ontario. He attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, on a hockey scholarship, graduating in 1955. In his four years he scored 101 goals for the Skating Saints, which remains a St. Lawrence record. On three occasions, he scored five goals in a game, a school record shared with several others. McFarlane was honoured as an All-American in 1952. After graduating, he worked in television at WRGB in Schenectady, New York, before moving to CFRB Radio in Toronto, Ontario and then CFCF-TV in Montreal, Quebec (where he was sports director) and CFTO TV in Toronto. He had a lengthy career in broadcasting and journalism. National Hockey League broadcastingHe is best known as a commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, beginning in 1964. He made similar broadcasts on NHL games for the major American networks CBS and NBC. He was a colour commentator on Toronto Maple Leafs local telecasts until 1980, when he made on-air comments that were supportive of Leaf captain Darryl Sittler and critical of Leafs owner Harold Ballard. Harold Ballard banned him from the Maple Leaf Gardens press box. For Hockey Night in Canada, he was moved off Toronto games at this point, broadcasting the Montreal Canadiens and Winnipeg Jets games, this time as the studio host. His last year with HNIC was 1991, ending a 28-year association with HNIC. Peter Puck connectionMcFarlane is often incorrectly cited as the creator or father of the cartoon character Peter Puck. The cartoon puck, which appeared on both NBC's Hockey Game of the Week and CBC's Hockey Night in Canada during the 1970s, was actually the creation of NBC executive Donald Carswell, although McFarlane had significant input. The character itself and the animation footage was created by NBC's production partner, Hanna-Barbera. After the network stopped carrying NHL hockey, McFarlane purchased the rights to Peter Puck from Hanna-Barbera and continued to promote the character. Writing careerAs of 2010, McFarlane had written more than 93 books on hockey, selling over 1.3 million books. His first book, 50 Years of Hockey (Pagurian Press) was published in 1968 and he continues to write about hockey. McFarlane is an expert on hockey history and has compiled several volumes of NHL lore titled It Happened in Hockey, a 1999 series detailing the colorful history of the Original Six NHL teams, and "Proud Past Bright Future," the history of Women's Hockey (1994, Stoddard, {{ISBN|0-7737-2836-8}}). He published two memoirs, Brian McFarlane's World of Hockey (2000, Stoddart Publishing, {{ISBN|0-7737-3263-2}}) republished as Colour Commentary (2009, Key Porter, {{ISBN|978-1-55267-600-4}}) and From The Broadcast Booth (2009, Fenn, {{ISBN|978-1-55168-327-0}}). In 2008, he began a youth fiction series The Mitchell Brothers which always features hockey in the plots. Personal lifeThroughout his career, McFarlane collected much memorabilia, photos, and objects focusing primarily on hockey history. In 2006, Brian sold most of his hockey collection to the Municipality of Clarington, where it became Total Hockey, a multimedia, interactive museum located at the Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex in Bowmanville. The museum was closed in 2007 and the collection was sold to an Edmonton-based collector in 2013. Plans for the collection have not been made public, but McFarlane was assured by the purchaser that the collection would be preserved and made available to the public at some point. From his teenage years, McFarlane was interested in painting. In semi-retirement he began painting regularly producing several hundred paintings, mostly in the Group-of-Seven style of Canadian landscapes. McFarlane has since become an accomplished painter, exhibiting professionally. McFarlane currently resides in the Greater Toronto area. Achievements
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Brian McFarlane|url=http://oshof.ca/index.php/honoured-members/item/60-brian-mcfarlane|website=oshof.ca/|accessdate=24 September 2014}} External links
11 : 1931 births|Living people|Canadian people of Irish descent|Canadian sports announcers|Foster Hewitt Memorial Award winners|National Hockey League broadcasters|People from Temiskaming Shores|St. Lawrence Saints men's ice hockey players|Toronto Maple Leafs broadcasters|Canadian sportswriters|Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame inductees |
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