About your host
GRANT FUHR
- A CANADIAN FORMER ICE HOCKEY GOALTENDER IN THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE AND FORMER GOALTENDING COACH FOR THE ARIZONA COYOTES. FUHR WAS INDUCTED INTO THE HOCKEY HALL OF FAME IN 2003. HE IS BEST REMEMBERED FOR A DECADE OF STELLAR PLAY FOR THE EDMONTON OILERS IN THE 1980s. HE WON A TOTAL OF FIVE (5) STANLEY CUPS AND WAS A SIX (6) TIME ALL-STAR. IN 2017 FUHR WAS NAMED ONE OF THE TOP '100 GREATEST NHL PLAYERS' IN HISTORY. HE SET A NUMBER OF FIRSTS FOR BLACK HOCKEY PLAYERS IN THE NHL, INCLUDING BEING THE FIRST TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP AND BEING THE FIRST INDUCTED INTO THE NHL HOCKEY HALL OF FAME.
- GRANT IS CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE COACHELLA VALLEY FIREBIRDS (AHL) HOCKEY LEAUGUE LOCATED IN PALM DESERT, CA. CO-HOSTING ALONG SIDE GINO LAMONT DOING PRE-AND POST GAMES AND COLOR COMMENTATOR LIVE RADIO GAMES ALONG SIDE EVAN PIVNICK
- GRANT & HIS WIFE LISA CURRENTLY SPEND SOME OF THEIR TIME TRAVELING TO NUMBEROUS CHARITY EVENTS IN SUPPORT OF OTHER'S VARIOUS CAUSES.
- GRANT ESTABLISHED HIS OWN FOUNDATION IN 2019, THE GRANT FUHR FOUNDATION, A NON-FOR PROFIT 501 (C)(3) CHARITY.
TO DATE, WE HAVE RAISED OVER
$300, 000.00 FOR THE HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION IN RANCHO MIRAGE, CA, IN AN EFFORT TO ASSIST FAMILIES EFFECTED BY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION.
IN 2025 WE PARTNERED WITH ONE VALLEY FOUNDATION, THE OFFICIAL FOUNDATION OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY FIREBIRDS.
OUR MISSION THIS YEAR IS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS WITHIN THE COACHELLA VALLEY.