Harnarayan Singh had been calling games in Punjabi long before he called Nick Bonino’s name over, and over, and over.
As he detailed in a piece for the Players’ Tribune, it all started way, way back when he was a kid growing up in southern Alberta. It can be a predominantly white place, and so coming from a Sikh family, he stood out - but was able to find a commonality with people there through hockey.
Finding a love for announcing early on, he had to work insanely hard to make it at all, but when CBC decided they wanted to reach out to the Punjabi community, he was the guy for the job - in which the work got even harder.