On the broadcast, Vic Rauter finally let loose:
In the control room, director Marco Petraglia whispered a silent prayer. "Don't blow the timeline," he muttered. A live curling broadcast is a paradox: glacial strategy punctuated by sudden, violent explosions of action. The nation was watching. Not just the die-hards in toques, but the shift workers, the insomniacs, the prairie farmers who had finished calving season. For them, the low rumble of Vic Rauter’s voice was the sound of winter. tsn live curling
It was the final end of the Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship. Northern Ontario had the hammer—the last shot of the game. Trailing by one, with the clock on the TSN broadcast bleeding past midnight Eastern, skip Sarah Jenkins placed her foot in the hack. On the broadcast, Vic Rauter finally let loose: