Big Show with Rusic & Rose

Big Show with Rusic & Rose is Calgary sports radio from Sportsnet 960 The Fan, and it keeps its live-broadcast skin on. Station IDs, hour markers, a sponsored Morning Report and ad reads all stay in, so each episode sounds like a slice of a working morning. The Calgary Flames are the through-line. One episode catches the 2025-26 finale, a 3-1 win over the LA Kings at the Scotiabank Saddledome, greeted with a little ABBA and a crack about one last rip around the track. The studio declines to complain about the standings until the draft lottery has come and gone, while reserving the right to do so afterward. The lottery gets its own hearing in The Quest for The 3rd Best Lottery Odds, where the question before game 82 of 82 is whether a win is even worth wanting. The Flames hold the third-best odds and would slip to fourth with a victory, so the discussion weighs a two percent swing on the first overall pick against how far the pick could fall. The text line is asked to settle it. Flames Season in Review w/ Matty Rose! lines up superlatives for the room: most likely to be traded, most likely to become a full-timer, most likely to sign an extension. It also talks through the backup goaltending job behind Dustin Wolf, and how an injury set back one candidate. Goaltending shows up in the titles as well, with an episode called Brent Krahn's Goalie Rankings! + Frank Seravalli! The show looks past Calgary, too. The Leafs take a ribbing over Austin Matthews' goal total and unsettled future, and over a Nylander press conference said to have lasted 92 seconds. Frank Seravalli, the station's NHL insider, joins on Fridays, and one visit falls on the eve of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Kevin Barker of Blair and Barker on Sportsnet 590 comes on via the guest hotline to talk Blue Jays, after a round of shared complaints about snow in Calgary and rain in Toronto. Much of the character comes from the room. George Rusic is away in several of these episodes, so Rose fronts them with Brent Krahn sitting opposite, Shan Virgie in the studio and intern Ben hanging around. Krahn gets drafted into a sponsor read on the spot and delivers it fast, the board operator is teased for limping along, and a Sportsnet postgame graphic that carried John Abbott's Twitter handle but not Krahn's turns into a bit. Another episode begins with an apologetic hello to Calgary and a confession about being hopeless at getting to a break, always with too much left to say. For a first listen, the lottery episode or the season review shows the balance best: real Flames arithmetic, argued by a room that needles itself between points.