Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. His nickname was Quoteless Joe. Thats what I remember off the ice with Joe: Hes just so humble and down-to-earth, and he was a great team guy. You have permission to edit this article. Thankfully I never had breathing problems, some people develop that and have to go to a hospital. Honestly, you could smell blood in the air that night in Joe Louis Arena before the fight started. (Remember, he sustained an upper-body injury in the Anaheim game.) The thing about Sakic is that he and Forsberg were so similar in that they were the most unselfish (players). For more information regarding this and other stories, email her at [emailprotected] or tweet her @SophSiegel. He told me during the season he was still getting treatment for the knee after games (and practice) and that he was maybe 90-95%. I got lucky, Kelly said. This website is not affiliated with the NFL, NFLPA, or any individual NFL franchise. When he found out hockey was called off, I told some people, I cant tell if hes really sick or hes just upset that the Blues arent playing anymore.. Who knows?. Over the years, people have asked me about Forsberg and Sakic and whos a better player. Rays one of the nicest guys Ive ever met in hockey. It was really scary, and people need to really take this seriously. There are no sick days for them if they dont work they dont get paid. Kelly, the longtime Blues television play-by-play broadcaster for Fox Sports Midwest, said this week that he is almost fully recovered after being infected with COVID-19, a victim of the worldwide pandemic that has hit more than 1.5 million people and claimed more than 88,000 lives. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'right';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = 'https://www.baseball-almanac.com/css/print.css';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); Did you know that you can compare John Kelly to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the Blues broadcaster John Kelly on a float at the Stanley Cup parade last June. Thats the impetus for going to work sometimes when youre sick. The Board of Governors (BOG) voted to approve John Kellys reappointment earlier today, according to a press release by the BOG. : PITTSBURGH; Brooks's Suspension Extended a Game", "ESPN.com - NHL - Barnaby grateful that coach defended him", "ESPN.com - NHL - Brooks suspended indefinitely by league", "N.H.L. Your email address will not be published. After the 200405 NHL lockout, he finally got the chance for the second time in 200506. As for right now, the NHL is basically in a holding pattern, waiting to see if the coranavirus dies down substantially. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2021 fiscal year. Hes one of my favorites of all time, as a person and as a hockey player, obviously. We all knew that we were going through Detroit if we were going to go to the Final. He is a 26 year old left wing who was born on Jun. But I could have gotten it in St. Louis before I left for New York. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. JT: No, I don't think it would crush the ownership group. And as soon as the Quebec Nordiques announced that they were moving to Denver, I sent a tape to the Avalanche. To me, Patricks greatest moment as an Av was Game 6 in New Jersey in the Final when the Avs were down 3-2. Supposedly he thought the show was beneath him and didn't even say goodbye after his last scene. (Post-Dispatch photo by David Carson). WebHis biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of Bally Sports Midwest Blues play-by-play announcer John Kelly (left) and analyst Darren Pang. The elder Kelly also called Stanley Cup games, and the Enterprise Center press box in St. Louis is named after him. For those interested in conducting a detailed compensation analysis, we recommend that you review the entire proxy statement. 49K subscribers in the stlouisblues community. Our mouths were literally open. Webestimated salary expenditure : $78,155,000: $88,082,500: $75,500,000: $59,625,000: $42,150,000: $22,000,000: dead cap salary expenditure : $5,750,000-----non-roster He is the author of "Bernie Federko: My Blues Note" and "100 Things Blues Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." Kelly joined the Blues' broadcast team for the 198990 season and remained on the job until 1992, when he joined the then-fledgling Tampa Bay Lightning.[2]. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. But that illness was not coupled with coronavirus. He worked with the team through 1992, then had stints calling games for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche before returning to the Blues ahead of the 2005-06 season. He is symptom-free today, but not until after a harrowing road that left him admittedly scared. We stayed in a hotel near Quebec Street, and I remember the second day we got there, the Avs had a preseason game in Vail. To a follow-up question about the average annual value of a new contract for Pietrangelo, JT replied: I think you're talking Roman Josi numbers for Petro, which is $9.059 million per year. Looking back, the Kellys were thankful they werent aware of that sooner. In fact, I might like your lineup better. You cant choose one. But he did have to deal with a lot this season in terms of expectation and pressure. I was in bed for 20 hours a day for four or five days, he said. By Brad Lee Feb 11, 2009, 8:27pm CST. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. I was a little fatigued. I'm sure the reason Hall and Plante aren't in the rafters at Enterprise is that Hall played only 4 seasons in St. Louis (and played in only 18 games in one of those 4) and Plante played only 2 seasons in St. Louis. According to our data, the highest paying job at House of Blues is a Senior VP of Sales at $175,000 annually while the lowest paying job at House of Blues is a Lead Trainer at $16,000 The diamond is a scatterplot graph that visualizes the relation of the player's APY (in green) and performance (in blue, as measured by OTC's Valuations) to the rest of the league at his position. First full season as a starter, still playing in some rinks for the first time, teams getting a book on him, and the trapping of celebrity. (One was) Sakics triple-overtime goal in Game 6 against Chicago in 96. The rivalry had every single thing that you could want. At the same time, the Blues did not renew the contract of their play-by-play announcer. He died Feb. 10, 1989. So I just thought I had pneumonia, and even the doctor didnt feel that I had (COVID-19).. JT: It's hard to say. https://t.co/wBQxF5GZPy #stlblues, St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) March 27, 2020. This was not his first bout with pneumonia, something he said he had about a dozen years ago in the offseason. Colorado's Cale Makar crashes to the ice after being checked by Blues' Vladimir Tarasenko during the Oct. 21 game in St. Louis. I had to get together with my partner, Peter McNab, and get together with the coaches and talk to the players and everything. I had a chance to be the TV play-by-play guy at the Avalanche, and I took it. copyright=new Date(); Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo poses for a photo with Calgary's Matthew Tkachuk (center) and Winnipeg's Mark Scheifele (left) during the NHL Skills competition. So that wasnt a big deal, but I wanted to get familiar with the people around the team, the off-ice people and Peter. 8, barbecue chips, oatmeal raisin cookie). [1] Kelly joined his father in the broadcast booth, for a game in November 1988, as Dan Kelly announced his final game, in which the Blues defeated the Flyers for the first time in Philadelphia since January 6, 1972. Were going up through the foothills up into the mountains on I-70, and my wife and I were just in awe. Partnered with the USA TODAY Sports Media Group|Powered by, Blake Baratz, Barry Gardner (The Institute for Athletes), Signed a reserve/future contract with Cleveland (CLE), Signed to the practice squad by Cleveland (CLE), Waived by Cleveland (CLE), clearing $965,000 of cap, Signed to the active roster by Cleveland (CLE), Signed to the practice squad by Los Angeles (LAR), Signed to the active roster by Los Angeles (LAR), Signed a 4 year $2.64 million contract with Los Angeles (LA), Drafted by Los Angeles (LA): Round 6 (#176 overall). In 11 days, results would reveal that Kelly did indeed test positive for coronavirus, but fortunately, he had significantly recovered by then. To understand how to read the diamond, read this explainer. Kellys salary will The diagnosis: A virus that would pass, Kelly said. You would say, Thank you, thank you, thank you! after a big goal in Colorado. As Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at HURON CONSULTING GROUP INC, John D. Kelly made $1,496,940 in total compensation. (Post-Dispatch photo by David Carson). John Kelly was in a bleak situation worse than he even knew. Instead, it got worse, and when Kelly went back, a chest X-ray revealed that he had double pneumonia, requiring fluids for dehydration, along with antibiotics and an inhaler. (Post-Dispatch photo by David Carson). In addition to the Blues, Kelly also worked the 2006 NHL playoffs on Outdoor Life Network (now NBCSN). Id say 95%.. 2. When looking at those Avalanche teams, what similarities do you see with this years Colorado team? As the story goes, he became increasingly impossible to deal with, and made unreasonable salary demands, so they wrote him off the show. WebThe 59-year-old Kelly began his NHL broadcasting career with the Blues in 1989, taking over from his father, the legendary Dan Kelly. It didnt work out so well. (Courtesy of John Kelly). I had never been there. In a normal year, I would see Joe and obviously say hi. Boundary-pushing and gritty, this show brought realistic language, human frailty and (gasp!) I had called the Quebec Nordiques games the year before against Tampa, so its not like I came in and I had never seen those players, and they had pretty much the same team as they had the year before to start the season. Robert Thomas. Ive been so lucky to be part of these two organizations and watch teams have success and win championships.. [3] He was suspended two games for that confrontation on January 18,[4][5][6][7][8] having been suspended indefinitely since January 15. The proxy statement includes footnotes and explanations of this information plus other information that is pertinent in assessing the overall value and appropriateness of the compensation information. Bold. Blues television announcer John Kelly has been shut out of doing play-by-play since calling the first round of the playoffs for Fox Sports Midwest. He just wasn't very likable to the pubic I think. QUESTION: Thoughts as to why the Blues have not retired Garry Unger's number? 3. Kelly got through that game, though, and flew back to St. Louis with the team on March 12. I dont think I could run a 5-mile race now, but I feel really good. But with another good offseason of training, and good health, he's a top 9 player for sure. Are you still in touch with any Avalanche folks, like Sakic or any of them? I didnt know if I would get paid anything, and we all knew that there was a really good chance of a long lockout. Sophie Siegel is the Editor in Chief of the University Press. Aside from being a great general manager, he was an extremely competitive man.