“It has been a privilege and education on hockey’s biggest stage to have sat next to Doc for the last 14 years,” NBC color analyst Ed Olczyk said. NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood called Emrick “a national treasure.” “The risk one takes in saying something about Doc Emrick is that you know he could have worded it better himself - on the spur of the moment, with 20,000 screaming in his ears (or up to 105,000 in the rain, snow and/or bitter cold), to a national broadcast audience relying on him to get it just right,” Bettman said in a statement. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Emrick “didn’t just master” announcing hockey, “he transformed it into art.” “I always do because I’ll miss it when it doesn’t happen.” “When you have a job like that, you’re never working the rest of your life,” Emrick said last year, pausing to explain why he takes time to talk to anyone who approaches him for a conversation, photo or autograph. In 2008, Emrick was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame, which awarded him the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to hockey broadcasting.
He had stints at ESPN and ABC as well as Fox and CBS and at six Olympic Winter Games.
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“Now, into my golden years, this just seemed to be the time that was right.”Īfter 3,750+ Professional and Olympic hockey games, 100 different verbs used to describe a pass or shot, and 22 Stanley Cup Finals, the legendary Mike "Doc" Emrick has announced his retirement from broadcasting.įrom hockey fans around the world, we say #ThankYouDoc! /Pt27Dp63TWĭoc won eight Sports Emmy Awards for play-by-play, including seven straight from 2014 to 2020. And NBC has been so good to me, especially since the pandemic, when I was allowed to work from home in a studio NBC created. “But I’ve just been extremely lucky for 50 years. “I hope I can handle retirement OK, especially since I’ve never done it before,” Emrick told the New York Post. Affectionately known as “Doc” for his doctorate in communications and known for using 100 different verbs used to describe a pass or shot, Emrick has been a staple in the NHL community. He has called 3,750+ Professional and Olympic hockey games and 22 Stanley Cup Finals. Longtime NHL announcer Mike “Doc” Emrick is retiring as a broadcaster.
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