High Valley - Brad Interviews with Ron MacLean on SPORTSNET

[Music] gonna borrow one of his lyrics brad rampell high valleys joining us next on hockey night in canada dear life what's your plan is where i'm supposed to be right where i am the grand old opry's the right answer but it's hockey night next yeah the truth is [Music] commentators clothing provided by jack victor we're back boston pizza molson canadian bringing you call the shot every saturday night for a chance to win amazing prizes brad rampell high valley la crete alberta 700 k's north of ed

monton is where you grew up dreaming of being joseph wall tonight he's playing for the toronto maple leafs in buffalo can you imagine what he's feeling right now and honestly yeah we're we met at the ccmas uh you're just a really special talent representing uh your province uh in music and we'll get to that in a second but what about hockey how did it happen that you love hockey man i think you have to right if you're from alberta honestly if you're from western canada that's just what we did um

unfortunately i wasn't too good at it but i think i learned early early on jordan tutu helped me kind of understand that if you allow 21 goals in one game you're probably not the best goalie and you should figure out a different career path so but i love it i've read gretzky's autobiography you know the big massive bible-sized autobiography i've read that one front to back three times i think i met you first when paul brant went into the canadian music hall of fame at the ccmas and he told me t

hat when he spotted you 14 years ago he got an invitation to go see you perform at a gospel a little church in saskatchewan at the ccmas and he said i felt like glenn say they're seeing gretzky for the first time or wren blair bobby orr and he goes on to say i knew that with his work ethic and his talent he'd be at the grand old opry so maybe a bit of a paul man paul brandt i mean obviously he didn't have to say that he's the nicest guy in the world and i remember playing that show going back we

had some cds for sale i don't think anybody bought him but we had a few for sale and he um he left a little business card or something like that and said hey kid you call this number please and we called it of course uh because it was from paul brandt and um it said he said as soon as we called him he's like hey would you mind going on tour opening up for me for a few shows and that was an easy yes and such a life-changing move right there you're going to play young forever at the top of the cl

ock here uh your boys obviously loved hockey now really great at basketball sports as you would you're living in tennessee yeah just outside nashville so we'll show drew here but tell me about your kids yeah drew and cass drew's 12 that's him making that layup right there he um starting qb for our eighth grade football team as a sixth grader so he's uh he's doing good i didn't teach him any of that stuff basketball football baseball cash is 10 years old and gary roberts already taught him how to

do pull-ups so he's pretty jacked for a 10 year old and my goal in life is just to keep up with my kids for as long as possible until uh that's that's uh no bueno anymore but right now i'm trying my best well gary you do train with gary right you followed his i've trained with him a few times and then he just sends me workouts and i try and do what he says and i'm trying to eat what he says too that's the big one he's only the best okay so we're both alberta boys and to show how much we have in

common we both guested with tim mcauliffe this week and he'd been doing a whole thing all week long after the connor mcdavid goal last friday night what's the greatest goal you've ever seen so watch this you won't believe this here's you and then it'll be me okay my personal favorite is pavel beret double overtime locker sign on mike vernon i have a favorite goal tire wasn't really too committal yet on a goal for friday but i have pavel burray's overtime winner game seven against calgary isn't

that unbelievable wow that's crazy so yeah okay kindreds whether you realized it or not that is unbelievable so brad you have the number 10 jersey because i did have that jersey uh kes is host last thing we only have 20 seconds what was that experience like with a riker and uh with crews yeah always unbelievable those great kids and the dads are great too i love anson and colby and they're great guys yeah you can recognize it time count you're special okay young forever high valley opens hockey

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