“There was no other way to get the shots on goal back then,” Kevin Gallant recalls. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The impetus for the “Mickey Mouse” comment was the decision to turn off the scoreboard, which included the shots on goal, moments after the Pats lost 4-2 to the host Warriors on Jan. “We had to have fun with it, right?” the elder Gallant says from his home in Langley, B.C. There was even an on-ice ceremony that included a presentation from then-Moose Jaw mayor Scoop Lewry.
The evening was dubbed “Mickey Mouse Night.” Kevin Gallant, who was a good sport about it all, wore a Donald Duck costume in the radio booth. 26, 1986, when the Pats next paid a visit to the old Moose Jaw Civic Centre. That comment created such a commotion that Gallant was the guest of honour on Feb. In fact, it was he who, in a moment of exasperation, once labelled the Warriors as a “Mickey Mouse organization” … on the air! Gallant’s father, Kevin, was the Pats’ play-by-play announcer on CKRM from 1980 to 1988. “Me and my dad looked at all the returning players Moose Jaw had and we thought it would be really hard to make the teamīut there he was, early in the 2021-22 season, scoring a game-winning goal against the Regina Pats - an outcome that added even more flavour to this improbable tale.
