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ESPN Pays Video Tribute to Tampa-Bound Melrose
Published 6/25/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
We reported yesterday that Barry Melrose was leaving the comfy confines of the ESPN studios for the back of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s bench. Barry Melrose Tampa Bay Lightning But instead of just a simple statement wishing him the best in his future endeavors (i.e. Sean Salisbury ), the Worldwide Leader decided to throw together a little tribute to their favorite - and as far as we know, only - hockey analyst (video after the jump): It’s not often ESPN would extend such a video courtesy to a soon-to-be ex-employee. (Maybe the boys in Bristol figure Barry will be back in one-to-two years after his coaching comeback goes kaput.) Still, it ...

Try Not to Get All Choked Up
Published 6/25/2008 by Kevin (noreply@blogger.com) at Barry Melrose Rocks
Barry Melrose worked at ESPN for a loooooooooong time. 13 years to be exact. So, naturally, they are paying tribute to him in the best way possible. A montage! ('Cause we need a montage! Montageeee!)+2 if you got that reference. Anyway, here's the video.

It’s a Good Hair Day in Tampa
Published 6/25/2008 by The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog
(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Mama always told you to get a haircut before a job interview, didn’t she? We don’t know if Barry Melrose did that earlier this spring in his meetings with the new owners of the Tampa Bay Lightning, but at his press conference today to announce him as the new Lightning head coach, he looked all cleaned up . . . still mulletted, mind you, but lookin’ spiffy. ...

Barry Melrose takes his mullet from Bristol to Florida
Published 6/25/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
I admit it. I'm a sucker for Barry Melrose. The guy did all he could to make hockey fans forget ESPN doesn't carry the sport anymore. It wasn't enough. But like I said, he tried. Here is the Bristol Stompers' tribute to Mullet Man. (About 12 seconds in is a clip of Barry sitting next to Bob McKenzie, the guy who in 1982 offered me a job as assistant editor of The Hockey News, only to snatch it away just because I am an American citizen, thus depriving me of a bucolic life covering hockey in Toronto and sentencing me to become a middle-aged shut-in listening to New York sports ...