Broadcast Career
During his coaching and managerial career, he sometimes worked for Hockey Night in Canada as an analyst in the playoffs, in the event his team did not qualify. He then began working as a broadcaster full-time in 1986. That year, he was first teamed with play-by-play man Bob Cole on CBC. Together, the pair broadcast twenty Stanley Cup Finals. During this time he also provided colour commentary for locally televised Toronto Maple Leafs games. During his tenure, he was paired with play-by-play broadcasters Jim Hughson, Ken Daniels, Jiggs McDonald, and Joe Bowen. He left the Toronto telecasts after the 2006–07 season to join the Buffalo Sabres broadcast team.
As a colour commentator, Neale has covered the 1998, 2002, and 2006 Winter Olympics and the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 and 2004. He is known for the same sense of humour he was famous for as a coach, often referring to the puck as "..bouncing like an Indian Rubber (lacrosse) ball", as well as for his estimations of exact distances on the ice.
He was the colour commentator for the Buffalo Sabres with Rick Jeanneret until the end of the 2011-12 NHL season. On 11 June 2012, the Buffalo Sabres announced that Neale would be replaced by fellow broadcaster and former Sabre Rob Ray, and would be moved to a analyst spot for Sabres broadcasts for the pregame show and intermission reports.
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