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This allowed the on-air talent, including commentators for NHL on NBC, and their guests (often ex-players and youth hockey teams) to demonstrate plays and hockey skills. From April onwards, and during inclement weather, the studio show moved to Studio 8G inside the GE Building, where NBC produces its Football Night in America program. For the Stanley Cup Finals, the show was usually broadcast on location.Beginning in 2008, the studio show originates from the game venue. In 2012, the studio show moved to NBC Sports\u2019 new headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. The studio show now usually goes on the road for special events like: the Winter Classic, All-Star Weekend, the Stadium Series, and the Stanley Cup Finals.List of personalities[edit]Full-time[edit]  Mike Emrick and Eddie Olczyk working a game on NHL on NBCSN (2019)Part-time[edit]NBC Sports Regional Networks personalities[edit]NBC Sports Regional Networks personnel may occasionally appear on NBCSN broadcasts during the latter part of the season and the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.NBC Sports CaliforniaRandy Hahn: play-by-play (2011\u2013present); also lead play-by-play for exclusive Sharks national regular season broadcastsBret Hedican: color commentator (2014\u2013present)Jamie Baker: color commentator (2014\u20132020)Drew Remenda: color commentator for NBC Sports California simulcasts (2011\u20132014); fill-in color commentator (2021\u2013present)Both Hahn and Hedican fill-in on games broadcast on TNTNBC Sports ChicagoNBC Sports WashingtonNBC Sports PhiladelphiaJackson fills-in on games broadcast on TNTOther on-air staff (occasional appearances)[edit]Former[edit]Broadcast teams[edit]1966 Playoffs (broadcast as special extended editions of “NBC Sports In Action”)[edit]Win Eliot-Bill Mazer-Bill Cullen and Jim Simpson1972\u201375[edit]Tim Ryan-Ted Lindsay-Brian McFarlaneFor the 1966 playoffs and 1972\u201375 coverage, play-by-play is listed first, followed by color color commentator, and studio host or hosts. “Inside The Glass” reporters were not utilized by NBC until the 2005\u201306 season.2005\u201306[edit]Mike Emrick–John Davidson–Pierre McGuireDave Strader-Brian Hayward-Joe MichelettiChris Cuthbert-Peter McNab-Cammi GranatoDuring its first 2 seasons, NBC used 3 regular broadcast teams for its regional coverage of the NHL. For its first season, they brought in Mike Emrick and John Davidson, the lead broadcast team for NHL on Fox, and added popular is Pierre McGuire was used as “Inside the Glass” reporter (the one who stands between-the-benches).For both broadcast seasons of the NHL on NBC, the #2 team consisted of Dave Strader, Brian Hayward, and “Inside the Glass” reporter Joe Micheletti.For the 2005\u201306 NHL season, the #3 broadcast team was Chris Cuthbert, Peter McNab, and “Inside the Glass” reporter Cammi Granato.2006\u201307[edit]Mike Emrick–Eddie Olczyk–Pierre McGuireDave Strader-Brian Hayward\/Peter McNab-Joe MichelettiChris Cuthbert-Peter McNab\/Brian Hayward-Darren PangFor the 2006\u201307 NHL season, the 2nd season of the NHL on NBC, John Davidson left NBC to become the president of St. Louis Blues, studio analyst Eddie Olczyk was used with Mike Emrick and Pierre McGuire. Furthermore, Darren Pang was used due to Granato’s son being born.During 2006\u201307, the #2 and #3 broadcast teams were mixed up, due to travel constraints. An example of this is color commentators Peter McNab and Brian Hayward often switching roles during the season and playoffs.During the season, due to Pierre McGuire’s TSN commitments, a variety of “Inside the Glass” reporters have been used with the #1 team, including Joe Micheletti, Cammi Granato, and Peter McNab.2007\u201309[edit]Due to NBC’s move to flex scheduling & only broadcasting one game a week, Only the team of Emrick, Olczyk, & McGuire is now used.Also, NBC has scrapped the studio-based intermission show and fired Bill Clement and Ray Ferraro. Pierre McGuire, who continues his role as the “Inside the Glass” reporter, serves as host from the game venue. Former Boston Bruins head coach Mike Milbury is the new analyst. During the Stanley Cup playoffs, NBC Sports reporters like Bob Neumeier and Bill Patrick served as a moderator for Pierre McGuire & Mike Milbury’s analysis.2010\u20132021[edit]For the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, Jeremy Roenick returned as a guest analyst for the intermission reports. For Games 5 & 6 on NHL on NBC, Dan Patrick was the studio host. For the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, Liam McHugh served as the host while Mike Milbury and Pierre McGuire returned as a analysts for the intermission reports.In the era after NBC purchased VERSUS and renamed it NBCSN, there was generally a sharing of talent that led to Emrick, Olczyk and McGuire calling the Sunday afternoon Game of the Week but would frequently make use of other NBCSN commentators. Cuthbert and Strader would also return to the network with more games featuring on both NBC and NBCSN, along with John Forslund. Frequently, a mix of Emrick, Albert, Strader, Cuthbert and Forslund would lead NBC’s Stanley Cup Playoff crews with analysts Olczyk, McGuire, Joe Micheletti, Brian Engblom and Darren Pang providing analysis.In the 2020-21 season, Kenny Albert – who had been calling the conference final that Emrick’s crew did not work – replaced the retiring Emrick as the lead voice and called the Stanley Cup Final with Olczyk and Brian Boucher, with McGuire serving as an on-site reporter, making him the only person to contribute to every season NBC carried the league dating back to 2005-06. Emrick would often contribute features.Similarly, the studio show was largely a mix of NBCSN’s Liam McHugh and Kathryn Tappen with analysts Mike Milbury (until his firing in 2020), Roenick (until his firing in 2020), Keith Jones and later on, Anson Carter and Patrick Sharp. Mike Tirico would occasionally substitute as a host and play-by-play announcer. TSN commentators such as Cuthbert, Gord Miller, Ray Ferraro and Mike Johnson also worked regular season and playoff games.Towards the end of the NBC era – and with Milbury and Roenick’s departures, the retirement of Emrick and the death of play-by-play man Dave Strader – the network began cycling in new talent. Brendan Burke, who would eventually become one of the play-by-play voices of The NHL on TNT and Alex Faust called several playoff games for the network. Recently retired players like Dominic Moore and Ryan Callahan were hired as studio commentators and analysts and AJ Mleczko became the first woman to regularly work for an American national hockey broadcast. Former coach Mike Babcock joined as a studio analyst in the network’s last season.During the COVID-19 pandemic, NBC would often have commentators call games from studios as a safety precaution, with a mix of studio and in-person work during the 2020-21 NHL season and a return to largely full in-person commentary during the postseason. Occasionally, commentators would work multiple games per day from NBC’s studios in Connecticut.NBCSN broadcast one of the final games before the pandemic suspended the season on March 11, 2020 between the Sharks and Blackhawk, with the network providing updates on how the pandemic was beginning to affect the league. Emrick, Olczyk and Boucher called the game, the last one Emrick would work in person in his career.During the NHL’s ‘bubble’ Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2020, Forslund, Gord Miller, Boucher and, until his firing, Mike Milbury worked in the league’s Toronto bubble, while Albert and McGuire called games from the Edmonton bubble, with some commentators working from the studio or, in Emrick’s case, from home. Emrick would call the last of his record 22 Stanley Cup Finals from a home studio in Michigan, with Olczyk (both Emrick and Olczyk are cancer survivors) in a studio in Connecticut, with Boucher (working his first Stanley Cup Final) and McGuire providing analysis and reporting in Edmonton.In the final NBC season, Albert and Forslund called the league’s two conference finals, with Albert working alongside Olczyk and Boucher and Forslund with Micheletti and McGuire. Burke and Mleckzo and Faust and Moore were the other broadcast teams for the second round with Cuthbert having accepted the job as the voice of Hockey Night in Canada.Inside the Glass Reporters Used After NBC & Comcast Merger Beginning in 2011[edit]Main commentators for NHL on NBC & NBCSN:[3]Pierre McGuireBrian EngblomDarren PangJoe MichelettiDarren EliotBilly Jaffe2011\u20132013 on NBC & NBCSN[edit]Mike Emrick–Eddie Olczyk–Pierre McGuireDave Strader-Brian EngblomKenny Albert-Joe MichelettiGord Miller-Daryl Reaugh-Pierre McGuireRick Peckham-Daryl Reaugh (2012 Stanley Cup playoffs)John Forslund-Brian Hayward (2012 Stanley Cup playoffs) or Daryl Reaugh (2013 Stanley Cup playoffs)2014\u201315 on NBC & NBCSN[edit]Mike Emrick–Eddie Olczyk–Pierre McGuireDave Strader-Brian EngblomKenny Albert-Joe MichelettiGord Miller-Ray FerraroChris Cuthbert-Bret HedicanJohn Forslund-Anson CarterRandy Hahn-Jamie Baker-Bret HedicanSee also[edit]Links to related articlesRelated programsRelated articlesCommentatorsKey figuresStanley Cup Finals1966 (Games 1, 4)1973 (Games 1, 4\u20136)1974 (Games 3, 6)1975 (Games 2, 5)2006 (Games 3\u20137)2007 (Games 3\u20135)2008 (Games 3\u20136)2009 (Games 1\u20132, 5\u20137)2010 (Games 1\u20132, 5\u20136)2011 (Games 1\u20132, 5\u20137)2012 (Games 1\u20132, 5\u20136)2013 (Games 1, 4\u20136)2014 (Games 1\u20132, 5)2015 (Games 1\u20132, 5\u20136)2016 (Games 1, 4\u20136)2017 (Games 1, 4\u20136)2018 (Games 1, 4\u20135)2019 (Games 1, 4\u20137)2020 (Games 1, 4\u20136)2021 (Games 3\u20135)All-Star GameOutdoor gamesCulture\/LoreRivalries"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki\/nhl-on-nbc-commentators-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"NHL on NBC commentators – Wikipedia"}}]}]