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Mike Emrick, known as “Doc” because he has a doctorate in broadcasting, is working the 21st Stanley Cup Final of his illustrious career.
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Mike "Doc" Emrick, longtime hockey broadcaster, about his retirement and the future of sports broadcasting.
Mike Emrick is the Vin Scully of hockey, a play-by-play broadcaster whose pleasant mastery of so much about the job — cadence, anecdote, and defter deployment of verb than Rog ...
The Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues’ morning skates are over and a handful of broadcasters have taken the ice to re-enact a play from this bruising Stanley Cup Final.
The Stanley Cup playoffs are the busiest time of year for Mike Emrick. Yet he added something to his routine this spring that has nothing to do with hockey. NBC's lead NHL play-by-play man is ...
Mike Emrick -- known to countless sports fans as "Doc" thanks to his Ph.D -- is retiring from calling NHL games at the age of 74. “I hope I can handle retirement OK,” he told the New York Post ...
If you're lucky, you have tickets to the Stanley Cup final. But if you're really lucky, you don't have tickets to the Stanley Cup final. That way you can listen to NBC's Mike "Doc'' Emrick call ...
Thinking back over 50 years in hockey, Mike Emrick can't name one favorite memory or game, but one story sticks out. Minutes after watching T.J. Oshie score four shootout goals to help the U.S ...
Mike Emrick spent decades narrating hockey’s biggest moments happening live in front of him. That’s also how “Doc” wants to experience a documentary about his life and career.