Harry Neale

Harry Neale[1] (born March 9, 1937) is a hockey color commentator for Hockey Night in Canada. He is a former NCAA, NHL and WHA coach and General Manager.

Broadcast career
During his broadcasting, he worked for Hockey Night in Canada as an color commentator. He then began working as a broadcaster full-time in 1986. That year, he was first teamed with play-by-play man Bob Cole on CBC. Together, the pair broadcast 20 Stanley Cup Finals. In the playoffs, when Cole was working with other analysts, Neale also worked with Don Wittman, Chris Cuthbert and Jim Hughson.

As a color commentator, Neale has covered the 1998, 2002, and 2006 Winter Olympics and the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and 2004 for CBC. He is known for the same sense of humour he was famous for as a coach, often referring to the puck as "..bouncing like an Indian Rubber (lacrosse) ball", as well as for his estimations of exact distances on the ice.

He and Bob Cole were the longest commentators for Hockey Night in Canada.

Honours
In 2010, he was elected as an inaugural inductee into the World Hockey Association Hall of Fame in the coaching category.[5]

On June 11, 2013, it was announced that both Cole and Neale would be given the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award and thus be honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Personal life
Harry Neale has five children Michael, Mary, Sara, Lauren, and David.