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VANCOUVER \u2014 In his working life with John Garrett, play-by-play announcer John Shorthouse remembers exactly two times that his broadcast partner lost his temper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once was in Columbus when the tired and hungry Sportsnet crew had to wait forever for a restaurant table post-game, then forever for the server, who when finally discovered informed them that the kitchen was closed. Garrett\u2019s complaint lasted less than a minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd the second time I saw him lose it \u2014 and I\u2019ve never been more proud and more thankful for any person in my life \u2014 was when I was in a really bad situation in an emergency room in Philadelphia,\u201d Shorthouse recalled Tuesday. \u201cI wasn\u2019t getting tended to and was not in good shape, and he finally lost it and went full Papa Bear on the staff in order to get me treated. I\u2019ll never forget that. To me, that spoke to his unfailing and unshakeable capacity to be the perfect teammate. And he wasn\u2019t just our teammate; he was our captain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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John Garrett was more than that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The legendary Vancouver Canucks<\/a> television analyst was discovered Monday afternoon lifeless in his hotel room in Salt Lake City, where he had been working the first-round National Hockey League playoff series between the Utah Mammoth and Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 74-year-old, who moved to a less hectic national schedule for Sportsnet from Canuck regional broadcasts three years ago, leaves behind his wife, Sharon, daughters Krista and Sarah, grandchildren and a generation of hockey fans in Vancouver whose soundtrack for games featured Garrett\u2019s reassuring voice and folksy sense of humour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cJohn was every guy,\u201d Greg Shannon, his long-time television producer, said Tuesday after Sportsnet announced Garrett\u2019s passing. \u201cPut him in a room with 100 other people, and he’d be No. 99 among people that you thought would be an ex-NHL player and a nationally known broadcaster. He was the guy you chatted to pumping gas at the station, or your neighbour. He was the most humble person I’ve ever met. There’s no bad John Garrett stories. There just isn’t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shorthouse\u2019s medical crisis occurred during a road trip in 2015, when an infection from what was supposed to be a routine surgical procedure in Vancouver became gravely worse. Garrett and Sportsnet reporter-host Dan Murphy, the third amigo on Canucks broadcasts, made sure Shorthouse got treated in Philadelphia before packing him on to a flight home to Vancouver for an emergency operation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s a delightful human,\u201d Shorthouse said. \u201cEven when he\u2019s messing up and would say something inappropriate, which didn\u2019t happen often, he\u2019s just so harmless and so lovely and so perfect. And he\u2019s genuinely, next to my dad, the most selfless person I\u2019ve ever met in my life. He literally puts everyone ahead of himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If it\u2019s true that no one is poor who has friends, Garrett died one of the richest people in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Born in Trenton, Ont., in 1951, Garrett was one of seven children raised by John and Marvel Garrett in the nearby community of Glen Miller. His dad was a high school principal and Garrett\u2019s parents stressed the importance of academics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A star goaltender in junior with the Peterborough Petes, John Garrett was drafted by the St. Louis Blues in 1971 but began his career in the World Hockey Association two years later. His final WHA team was the New England Whalers, who were absorbed by the NHL in 1979.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the defining moments of Garrett\u2019s 207-game NHL career was his incongruous appearance at the 1983 NHL All-Star Game in Uniondale, N.Y., four days after his trade to the Canucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vancouver goalie Richard Brodeur, the star of the Canucks\u2019 improbable run to the 1982 Stanley Cup Final, suffered a burst ear drum the first game after the trade and Garrett was sent to the All-Star Game as a last-minute stand-in during a time when the NHL mandated at least one representative from each team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Garrett nearly won the showcase game\u2019s MVP award, which was a Pontiac Firebird sports car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe start the third period and as I\u2019m making saves, Lanny McDonald comes by and says: \u2018You\u2019ve got a chance to win this car,\u2019\u201d Garrett told me for a 2017 column for The Vancouver Sun<\/em>. \u201cI make a few more saves and we score a goal, and every stoppage Lanny is saying: \u2018You\u2019ve got the front tires. Now you\u2019ve got the steering wheel.\u2019 So this Cinderella story is developing: What the hell is this guy doing here? And then (Wayne Gretzky) comes out and scores a goal. Lanny says: \u2018Oh-oh, you better start to worry.\u2019 Sure enough, next shift, Gretz scores again. He ended up he got four goals in the third period and won the car. I think he gave it to his uncle or something because Wayne had already won about 13 cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All of five-foot-eight, Garrett also famously jumped in to defend bantamweight teammate Gary Lupul in a fight with a Pittsburgh Penguin rookie named Mario Lemieux during the 1984-85 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was chirping him,\u201d Garrett said. \u201c\u2018You\u2019ll never make it in this league. You\u2019re nothing but a goon. Anybody can score in that Quebec League.\u2019 Mario still giggles about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The intelligence and self-deprecating humour that helped Garrett survive as an NHL backup made him a natural for television after he retired as a player in 1986.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He replaced Ryan Walter in 2002 as the analyst on Canucks broadcasts, working first with Murphy and Jim Hughson before the play-by-play man moved to Hockey Night in Canada<\/em> in 2008 and was replaced by Shorthouse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With Shannon herding them, the broadcast crew rose with the hockey team to the Stanley Cup Final in 2011, and then continued to elevate their high standard and keep Canuck fans informed and entertained through a pile of challenging seasons that soon followed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You know you\u2019re woven into a city\u2019s fabric when everyone identifies\u00a0you by nickname: Shorty, Murph and Cheech. Garrett\u2019s bushy moustache made him look a little like the character from Cheech and Chong movies of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the broadcast booth, Shorty and Cheech would talk about food and pop culture and, frequently, Garrett\u2019s love of ketchup on everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fulfilling a promise to his mother to finish his education, Garrett completed an English degree from Queen’s University over parts of three decades and once made a literary reference on TV to the 19th-century poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson when San Jose Sharks defenceman Matt Tennyson played his first game against the Canucks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think we all shared the same sense of humour,\u201d Murphy said from Utah, where he was also working the Mammoth-Knights series. \u201cWe were all still juvenile in our thinking. I think you need a sense of humour and a way to see things in a positive and fun light when you cover a team for that long. It\u2019s not always going to be great nights (for the team). We just thought the broadcast should be fun, regardless of whether the game was. If the game is good, inform. And if the game is not so good, entertain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Garrett, Shorthouse, Murphy and Shannon were largely inseparable on the road, sharing countless meals over many years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don’t know if ‘meals’ is the right word,\u201d Shannon said. \u201cWe shared a mutual hatred of utensils, that’s for sure. He was a big wings guy. He liked them extra crispy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And always washed down with Coors Lite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYes, ordered two at a time,\u201d Shannon said. \u201cBut always in a glass. I do have a picture of him drinking a glass of wine in Philadelphia one night. When I tweeted it out, my phone almost melted because it was wine and not Coors Light. My caption was something like, \u2018Hell has frozen over.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Murphy recalled futilely trying to upgrade the group\u2019s dining choice one night in Chicago, where the go-to joint was a divey sports bar called Mother Hubbard\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He explained: \u201cI texted the guys back, like: \u2018We\u2019re in Chicago. Honestly, can we please go somewhere else tonight?\u2019 And five minutes later, after they had conferred, they said: \u2018Fine, Cheesecake Factory.\u2019 That was the upgrade.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Garrett\u2019s final night in this life, he and Murphy and play-caller Harnarayan Singh went to a pub Sunday in Salt Lake City. Producer Paul Gris joined them for a drink.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe had to find a place with vegetarian options for Harnarayan,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cWe went to a pub that had a big-screen TV and watched the Habs game, which was crazy and fun. And we\u2019re older now, so we were all back at the hotel by eight o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think I\u2019ve worked one national game with Cheech since he left (Canucks broadcasts) three years ago. So I\u2019m really happy we got to spend this last week with him to reconnect. And it was just like old times: beers and watching hockey games. It\u2019s like we didn\u2019t miss a beat. It\u2019s heartbreaking what happened, it\u2019s terrible. But I\u2019m glad I was here, glad I got to see him the night before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI would honestly say, in 20 years of travelling, I kind of saw him in a snit for five minutes. Total. That\u2019s it. He was always in a good mood, always agreeable, always kind, always generous. We were on the road for 100 nights a year, and multiply that by two decades. And having your last impression of somebody being the same thing as your first impression without it ever changing, it says a lot about the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Asked what he will miss most about Garrett, Shorthouse broke down while telling a story about his friend and television partner \u2014 the guy he and Murphy called their “second dad” \u2014 reaching out during the 2020 pandemic lockdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBecause we were alone, he knew I was good at Sudoku and he\u2019d always send me the Sunday Sudoku,\u201d Shorthouse said. \u201cThe puzzles got harder during the week, so he didn\u2019t bother Monday to Friday. But he\u2019d always send me the Sunday one, so I would have something to do. But it was the connection, right? Except it wasn\u2019t just COVID; he sent me the last one two days ago from Salt Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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