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It hit him last spring, when speculation was circulating that Bob Cole, the legendary play-by-play voice with Hockey Night in Canada, might have been calling his final few games from the booth. That voice, he thought: It needed to be on a phone.

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“Listen, Bob,” Jason Murdoch said a few months later, “I have an idea for an app.”

“Well,” Cole said, “what’s an app?”

“After I explained that to him, I said, ‘This would be a great way to record your voice, and users would have it in the palm of their hand,” Murdoch said. “And he was all in for it.”

Murdoch, an associate producer with Rogers hockey and the CBC, sat down with Cole in a Florida hotel room in November to record more than 40 of his more famous calls. After a few months in development, the app, “Bob Cole Soundboard,” was released last week.