Editing Danny Gallivan

{{Short description|Canadian sportscaster (1917–1993)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Danny Gallivan
| image       = Danny Gallivan.jpg
| image_size  = 150px
| birth_name  = Daniel Leo Gallivan
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1917|4|11}}
| birth_place = [[Sydney, Nova Scotia|Sydney]], [[Nova Scotia]], Canada
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1993|2|25|1917|4|11}}
| death_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| occupation  = Radio and television sportscaster
| years_active=1946–1984
}}
'''Daniel Leo Gallivan'''<ref>[https://billiongraves.com/grave/Daniel-Leo-Gallivan/9671216 Danny Gallivan's Gravestone] at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia</ref> (April 11, 1917{{spnd}} February 25, 1993) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] radio and television broadcaster and sportscaster.

==Early life==
Born in [[Sydney, Nova Scotia|Sydney]], [[Nova Scotia]], Gallivan was an avid athlete and was a baseball pitcher on the St. Theresa's parish team from Sydney that won the Maritime Intermediate Baseball Championship in 1937.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005">Cape Breton Post. Saturday, March 5, 2005. Page C3.</ref> Gallivan started the deciding game against the Pugwash Maple Leafs in the best-of-three series and pitched a three-hit gem while striking out 11 batters in the game.<ref>Sydney Post Record. Tuesday, September 28, 1937. Page 10.</ref>

In 1938, Gallivan was invited to a [[History of the New York Giants (NL)|New York Giants]] training camp as a power pitcher, but an early injury to his arm ended any thoughts of a major league career.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005"/>

Gallivan began his broadcast career at a [[Independent Local Radio|local radio]] station in [[Antigonish, Nova Scotia]], while attending [[St. Francis Xavier University]]. While at St. Francis Xavier, he was once roommates with Hollywood film director [[Daniel Petrie]] around 1940 or 1941.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005"/> He taught high school [[algebra]] and [[Latin]] in Antigonish following graduation and took a stint in the [[Canadian Army]] before returning to continue his broadcasting career.

During the summers Gallivan worked in the blast furnace department of the steel plant at [[Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation|Dosco]], a Sydney-based manufacturer of steel, coal and assorted products, to pay his way through school. His late father, Luke, was a Dosco employee for 58 years and was a foreman at International Piers, Sydney. Gallivan graduated from St. FX in 1942. Following overseas service with the Knights of Columbus Hostel Auxiliary Services in the war, Gallivan returned to Antigonish as a sportscaster for CJFX.<ref>DOSCO World, Vol. 3, No. 1</ref>

==''Hockey Night in Canada''==
In 1946, Gallivan moved to a [[radio station]] in [[Halifax Urban Area|Halifax]] where he became sports director and voice of the St. Mary's junior hockey team.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005"/>  He was spotted by a [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] producer of ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' while in [[Montreal]] to broadcast a junior [[ice hockey|hockey]] playoff between Halifax and Montreal and was asked to fill in for a sick announcer in 1950.

In [[1952–53 NHL season|1952]], Gallivan began a 32-year stint with ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'', mostly calling games involving the [[Montreal Canadiens]], before retiring after the [[1983–84 NHL season|1983–84]] season.  Immediately after [[Bill Hewitt (sportscaster)|Bill Hewitt]] was forced to retire in 1981, Gallivan motored to Toronto to announce mid-week Maple Leaf games during the [[1981–82 Toronto Maple Leafs season|1981–82 season]] – he announced the night when [[Rick Vaive]] scored his 50th goal of the season, a first in Maple Leaf history. Gallivan did [[Sports commentator|play-by-play]] for at least 1,900 regular season and playoff matches, including 16 Stanley Cup victories for the Canadiens.<ref name="fame">{{Cite web |title={{!}} Hall of Famers Search |url=http://www.sportshall.ca/hall-of-famers/hall-of-famers-search.html?proID=272&catID=all&lang=EN |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=www.sportshall.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Romanuk |first=Paul |title=Remembering the time I met my hero, Danny Gallivan |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/remembering-time-met-hero-danny-gallivan/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=www.sportsnet.ca |language=en}}</ref> His colour commentator for 18 years was [[Dick Irvin Jr.]], from 1966 until his retirement in 1984. From 1980 to 1984, [[Mickey Redmond]] joined the pair as the third man in the broadcast booth.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hackel |first=Stu |date=2008-04-13 |title=The Morning Skate: Lunch With a Legend |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/the-morning-skate-lunch-with-a-legend/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=Slap Shot |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Switzer |first=Tim |date=April 6, 2017 |title=For 33 seasons, broadcasting legend Dick Irvin Jr. brought colour to Hockey Night in Canada |url=https://leaderpost.com/entertainment/television/for-33-seasons-broadcasting-legend-dick-irvin-jr-brought-colour-to-hockey-night-in-canada}}</ref>

On October 9, 1970, he had the distinction of announcing the [[Vancouver Canucks]]' first-ever game in the NHL, a 3–1 loss to the [[Los Angeles Kings]] on [[CKNW]] radio.

=="Gallivanisms"==
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Gallivan was known for his colourful descriptions of action on the ice. Hard shots became "cannonading drives"; saves were "scintillating",  "larcenous" or "enormous" rather than merely spectacular, and after a save the puck tended to get caught in a goalie's "paraphernalia" (goalie equipment). If the goaltender made a fantastic or impossible save, he would refer to it as a "hair raising save" or that the goalie "kicked out his pad in rapier-like fashion" to foil a "glorious scoring opportunity".

He would use words such as "anemic" to describe an ineffective offence or powerplay. He also coined phrases like "nowhere near the net" when a shot would go wide, and commented that "there has not been a multitudinous amount of shots" to describe a game with a "dire dearth" of shots on net. Passes from the corner and through the crease area would always feature Gallivan shouting "centred right out in front!!". Players were also known to "dipsy-doodle" with the puck or come out of their own zone "rather gingerly".

Gallivan would comment that late in the game was an "inopportune time" for a team to take a penalty, would mention that a penalty killer was "wasting valuable seconds in the penalty" when he was ragging the puck, and would almost always announce, "and the penalty has expired!" at the end of a penalty.

When a [[Professor|university professor]] wrote to Gallivan protesting that there was no such word as "cannonading", Gallivan wrote back: "''There is now.''"

The ultimate Gallivanism was another word he coined: the "spinarama," which described a player evading a check or deking a defender with a sudden 180- or 360-degree turn. Its chief practitioner was Montreal Canadien [[Serge Savard]] so that the move was also known as "The Savardian Spinarama". The [[Canadian Oxford Dictionary]] now includes an entry for "spinarama".

==Later life==
Gallivan retired after the [[1984 Stanley Cup playoffs]] when a severe illness rendered him blind in one eye.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005"/> He was active in retirement, working with several charities, and was the recipient of several television/broadcast industry awards. He made a cameo appearance in the 1975 Canadian feature film ''The Million Dollar Hockey Puck''. Gallivan also had a cameo as the voice of sportcaster Ferlin Fielddigger in the 1981 animated TV special, ''[[The Raccoons on Ice]]''.

==Death==
According to a Canadian Press report, Gallivan died on Thursday, February 25, 1993 in his sleep at his Montreal apartment, where he lived alone. The obituary said heart failure, possibly brought on by bronchitis, was the apparent cause. He was 75 years old.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danny Gallivan, Hall-of-Fame hockey broadcaster, dead at 75 - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/02/26/Danny-Gallivan-Hall-of-Fame-hockey-broadcaster-dead-at-75/7919730702800/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal and legacy==
Gallivan was married to Mary "Eileen" Gallivan (née MacPhee, 1925–1981) of Prince Edward Island, until her death three years prior to his final year on ''Hockey Night in Canada'' in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.islandregister.com/burials/ip2.html|title = Burial Sites of Interesting People on Prince Edward Island, Page 2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Opinion/Letter-to-editor/2012-09-15/article-3075323/Gallivan-guest-speaker-at-Rec-Centre-opening-in-1963/1 |title=Gallivan guest speaker at Rec Centre opening in 1963 - Letter to editor - the Guardian |website=www.theguardian.pe.ca |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061242/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Opinion/Letter-to-editor/2012-09-15/article-3075323/Gallivan-guest-speaker-at-Rec-Centre-opening-in-1963/1 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the early 1940s, Eileen transferred from UPEI to St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish where she eventually met Gallivan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vre2.upei.ca/islandmagazine/fedora/repository/vre%3Aislemag-batch2-778/OBJ|title=Welcome to Island Archives &#124; Island Archives}}</ref> Together they had four children: a son Danny Jr., and daughters Pat, Paula and Susan.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.islandlives.ca/fedora/repository/ilives%3A609950/PDF/ilives%3A609950/Full%20Text.pdf|title = The Basilica Recreation Centre: Before and after|year = 2008}}</ref>

In the mid-1950s, Gallivan was known to assist with the Department of Education's Physical Fitness Division's annual hockey school in PEI, along with NHL chief referee [[Red Storey]] and NHL star [[Buddy O'Connor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peildo.ca/fedora/repository/leg%3A4880?startpage=&solrq=|title=Annual Report of the Department of Education of the Province of Prince Edward Island for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1957 &#124; Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online|access-date=November 6, 2015|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220093339/http://www.peildo.ca/fedora/repository/leg%3A4880?startpage=&solrq=|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Cape Breton University]] awards the Danny Gallivan Memorial Fund Bursary in his honour, and St. Francis Xavier University awards an annual scholarship in his name.<ref name="Cape Breton Post 2005"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cbu.ca/come-to-cbu/tuition-finances/scholarships-bursaries/bursaries/bursary-list/ |title=Bursary List &#124; Cape Breton University |access-date=November 5, 2015 |archive-date=December 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203071438/http://www.cbu.ca/come-to-cbu/tuition-finances/scholarships-bursaries/bursaries/bursary-list/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Danny Gallivan Golf Tournament was created by Gallivan, [[Red Storey]] and a group of Halifax businessmen 30 years ago to raise research funds for the fight against cystic fibrosis. It continues to be one of the longest-standing, and most successful fundraising events of its nature in Atlantic Canada. The Tournament has raised nearly $1,400,000 for cystic fibrosis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cysticfibrosis.ca/get-involved/events/events-calendar/danny-gallivan-golf-tournament/?instance_id=|title = Cystic Fibrosis Canada}}</ref>

==Tribute==
Upon learning of Gallivan's death, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman issued the following statement, "I join with hockey fans throughout the world, and particularly the millions in Canada whose lives were touched by Danny Gallivan, in expressing the NHL's sadness at the loss of a broadcast legend."

==Honours and awards==
*1974 - ACTRA Sportscaster of the Year Award <ref name="fame"/>
*1980 - Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame - builder category<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nsshf.com/Portals/7/docs/2011%20Magazine%20LowRes.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 5, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085851/http://www.nsshf.com/Portals/7/docs/2011%20Magazine%20LowRes.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*1984 - Hockey Hall of Fame Media Honouree <ref name="fame"/>
*1985 - St. Francis Xavier University bestowed upon him an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree <ref name="fame"/>
*1989 - Inducted into Canadian Sports Hall of Fame<ref>Danny Gallivan {{cite web |url=http://www.sportshall.ca/honoured-members/27926/danny-gallivan/ |title=Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |access-date=2013-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628054411/http://www.sportshall.ca/honoured-members/27926/danny-gallivan/ |archive-date=June 28, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
*1990 - Broadcast Recognition Award - Atlantic Broadcasters' Association, in acknowledging Danny's contribution to the broadcast industry<ref name="broadcasting-history.ca">{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A//www.broadcasting-history.ca/personalities/personalities.php%3Fid%3D200 |title= |website=www.broadcasting-history.ca |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081618/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Fpersonalities%2Fpersonalities.php%3Fid%3D200 |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
*1991 - Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame<ref name="broadcasting-history.ca"/>

2015 - Inducted into the inaugural class of the Maritime Sport Hall of Fame, (Builder category)

==TV video==
The following games Gallivan called that were accessible on video:
*{{YouTube|np9swQgdIOw|Described game 5 of the 1959 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|R_kIBi7viTk|Called game 1 of the 1965 Stanley Cup Semifinal between Montreal and Toronto}}
*{{YouTube|syMw1PujxVw|Heard calling Jean Beliveau's goal at 0:14 of the first period in game 7 of the 1965 Stanley Cup Final between Montreal and Chicago}}
*{{YouTube|R4IprwpTZRk|Heard calling Yvon Cournoyer's goal at 5:03 of the first period in Game 7 of 1965 Stanley Cup Final between Montreal and Chicago}}
*{{YouTube|P7YolurYvmQ|Called game 7 of the 1965 NHL Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|DOZ6LpzngzY|Describing game 6 of the 1966 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|4f-0-C7DUhw|Describing game 1 of the 1967 Stanley Cup final between Montreal and Toronto}}
*{{YouTube|LDdAP6LD-HM|Describing game 2 of the 1967 Stanley Cup final between Montreal and Toronto}}
*{{YouTube|oqgkVPMK6zw|Called game 1 of the Canadiens-Bruins 1969 semi-final}}
*{{YouTube|Y8L3Yl_8NMM|Called John Ferguson's goal in Game 1 of 1969 Stanley Cup semi-final between Montreal and Boston}}
*{{YouTube|P-3S7CDRG7I|Called Jean Beliveau's double overtime goal (Apr. 24, 1969)}}
*{{YouTube|eMf68pRWtLI|Montreal Canadiens' Road to the 1969 Stanley Cup}}
*{{YouTube|q6dJZ13pJ2s|Called game 4 of the 1969 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|8eh5_38aTu4|Called the final seconds of game 4 of the 1969 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|VWsQ_Gf2EAE|Called the first Canucks goal scored by Barry Wilkins}}
*{{YouTube|8di4G12ynnM|Described game 7 of the 1971 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|m86avvAKnO0|Described game 6 of the 1973 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|yp7Wx9rTC7o|NHL Network 1975 Red Army vs Canadiens Game}}
*{{YouTube|wSwV6vsK2Ns|Montreal Canadiens at Philadelphia Flyers: 1976 Stanley Cup Final Game 4}}
*{{YouTube|ZK7VF2-gIwg|Montreal Canadiens at Boston Bruins: 1977 Stanley Cup Final Game 4}}
*{{YouTube|dq8QhDjcYWs|Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens: Game 1 of 1978 Stanley Cup Semifinals}}
*{{YouTube|jvKFrSqba5s|Describing Jacques Lemaire goal in Game 1 of 1978 Stanley Cup semi-final between Montreal and Toronto}}
*{{YouTube|N-WdMplBp8M|Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens: Game 2 of 1978 Stanley Cup Semifinals}}
*{{YouTube|_hF4gNmmY3U|Describing Guy Lafleur goal in Game 2 of 1978 Stanley Cup semi-final between Montreal and Toronto}}
*{{YouTube|ithBLuG39TY|1978 Stanley Cup Final Game 1: Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|BNmA714_94w|1978 Stanley Cup Final Game 2: Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|fhXImg1_EcY|Describing Guy Lafleur's overtime goal in Game 2 of 1978 Stanley Cup Final between Montreal and Boston}}
*{{YouTube|3Sknjqt9zHQ|1978 Stanley Cup Final Game 5: Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|w9rp-ewJ8mI|Described Larry Robinson's spectacular goal in Game 5 of 1978 Stanley Cup Final}}
*{{YouTube|sl50FJtWu5I|1979 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals Game 1: Toronto Maple Leafs at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|WkeDSwmg6f4|1979 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals Game 2: Toronto Maple Leafs at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|uxO-JmeQzMs|Described the entire 1979 Montreal-Boston Stanley Cup Semifinals series}}
*{{YouTube|kJgO7v3wAx0|1979 Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 3: Montreal Canadiens at Boston Bruins}}
*{{YouTube|gjec3F4sV2s|Called Larry Robinson's goal in Game 3 of 1979 Stanley Cup Semifinals between Montreal and Boston}}
*{{YouTube|GAz3DL-CA6I|1979 Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 4: Montreal Canadiens at Boston Bruins}}
*{{YouTube|Er7uJd8OKXM|1979 Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 5: Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|XhuRoWq0D5g|1979 Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 6: Montreal Canadiens at Boston Bruins}}
*{{YouTube|35qj69ww9fs|NHL Classic Games: Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens Game 7 of 1979 Semifinals}}
*{{YouTube|DR_gT3TOvwk|Describing the third period and overtime of Boston-Montreal 1979 Semifinals game 7}}
*{{YouTube|r0EKJFihZfE|Describing Boston's Too Many Men penalty and subsequent Guy Lafleur power-play goal (May 10, 1979)}}
*{{YouTube|12-x70nq0vI|Describing Guy Lafleur's power-play goal late in the third period in Game 7 of the 1979 Stanley Cup semi-finals between Montreal and Boston}}
*{{YouTube|l22FV4105p8|Describing Yvon Lambert's overtime goal in Game 7 of the 1979 Stanley Cup semi-finals between Montreal and Boston}}
*{{YouTube|3o5YkiRuTC4|Describing the final moments of Boston-Montreal Game 7 of the 1979 Stanley Cup semi-finals}}
*{{YouTube|93yATgUlAY8|1980 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals Game 7: Minnesota North Stars at Montreal Canadiens}}
*{{YouTube|ZqCwZO9Sdb8|Danny Gallivan's last game: Montreal Canadiens at New York Islanders Game 6 1984}}

==References==
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*[http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=281421&page=NewsPage&service=page "Hockey's Great Voices Echo Through Generations" at NHL.com]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Retrieved October 20, 2006.

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