Kevin Shea-Hockey Hall of Fame - Dec.4, 2023

Life - Musings, Reflections and Stories

December 4, 2023: Kevin Shea – works at the Hockey Hall of Fame, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Kevin is an author of twenty books about ice hockey and hockey legends. He’s met so many amazing hockey players and then in his previous career while in the entertainment business, he has met some interesting celebrities, musicians, performers and bands and we also chatted about his radio career. For the initial first part of our podcast episode, Kevin talks about his early years, where he attended the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario. Then the next section of the podcast was about his radio career as a radio announcer, production manager and music director. He worked in radio in Windsor, North Bay and in Ottawa, Ontario and also in Montreal, Quebec. We talked about Bob Woods (who became a politician); Rick Nelson, Daniel Harvey and other radio announcers. We then, moved onto his next career in the Entertainment business while he worked in Promotions for RCA Records, then Warner Records and then, MCA, which is now Universal Music Group. Kevin shared some fun stories about meeting Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston and Kenny Rogers and a bunch of amazing bands including his story to help Kurt Cobain’s band, Nirvana get their “grunge music” onto the Canadian radio stations. The balance of my podcast with Kevin is about his work with the Hockey Hall of Fame in the various duties such as: overseeing the Education Program and Editorial; and he is also involved with the Leadership program working with Indigenous youth and also of his work as a teacher of Hockey History at Seneca College and online at Laurentian University and Canadore College. He talks about Wayne Gretzky who is the world’s greatest goal scorer as the former professional ice hockey player and former head coach; Kevin talks about other hockey legends such as: Tim Horton; Don Cherry; Bill Barilko, Rocket Richard and so on. We could’ve talked extensively about the “whose who” in the hockey world. Kevin also volunteers his time raising money for cancer research working closely with the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Ontario “Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer” where $30 million dollars have been raised so far. To end this podcast, we talked about Kevin’s writing career as he authored (20) twenty books about hockey and hockey legends. To contact Kevin, you can find him on Facebook as: Kevin Shea; also he has his own website at: kevinshea.hockey.com; you can also email Kevin at: [e-mail]; and you can order his books online wherever you order books. To visit the Hockey Hall of Fame, it is located at: 30 Yonge Street (Yonge & Front St.,) Toronto, Ontario where you can find revolving displays of hockey items and a collection of historical hockey artifacts. Even Wayne Gretzky still visits there. Reach out to Kevin for any hockey related stories or questions. Thanks, Kevin for being my guest.