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Brian George Hayward (born June 25, 1960 in Georgetown, Ontario) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and current colour analyst of the Anaheim Ducks on Prime Ticket/Fox Sports West and KDOC.
Hayward played for the Winnipeg Jets, Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars and San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League from 1982 to 1993. Hayward won three William M. Jennings Trophies with Patrick Roy in the late 1980s with Montreal. Hayward was in net for the San Jose Sharks when they won their first NHL regular season game against the Calgary Flames in 1991. He played US collegiate hockey at Cornell University from 1978–1981.
He is the television analyst for the Anaheim Ducks. He also occasionally works as a reporter or colour commentator for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. Hayward has also called games for ABC, NBC, ESPN and ESPN2 and NHL International. While at ESPN, he served as colour commentator for the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and as a roving reporter during the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals, where he interviewed President Bill Clinton during a game in Washington, D.C. While with NBC, he called games at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. He also co-hosts Ducks Live with Jenny Cavnar.
Ghosts from the past
Two of them in flesh
Sailed across the seas
The ultimate invasion
Cause of deprecation
Storming the fields
Of a hostile kingdom
And absurdity
In the minds of the deranged
Are the laws of holiness
To be re-arranged
Morbid messenger of god
In sonic warfare
Sets the rites of immortal
And a burden to bear
Restless souls preventing sleep
Craved by the tired eyes
Forgotten ones
Of the lost decade
About to lose another one
Forgotten ones
Of the lost decade
About to lose another one
And all shall decay
For the unholy grail
Roaming fifty leagues a day
Bless the corpses of the past
Who rose upon the dawn
In the minds of the deranged
Are the laws of holiness
To be re-arranged
Morbid messenger of god
In sonic warfare
Sets the rites of immortal
And a burden to bear