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Mike "Doc" Emrick, Ph.D. (born August 1, 1946 in La Fontaine, Indiana) is an Emmy Award - winning American sportscaster. In the United States, he is one of the most recognized announcers in professional ice hockey.
Emrick has been sportscasting since 1973, when he did play-by-play for the IHL Port Huron Flags. In 1977 he became the voice of the AHL Maine Mariners for three seasons before moving up to the parent NHL Philadelphia Flyers. He has been calling NHL hockey games for either the Flyers, New York Rangers (as a substitute for Marv Albert), or New Jersey Devils ever since. Emrick served as the team's first voice in New Jersey, arriving for the 1982–83 NHL season. He returned to the team to replace Gary Thorne for the 1993 Stanley Cup Playoffs and has been the team's voice ever since. He was the voice of the Philadelphia Flyers from 1988 to 1993.
Emrick has also done play-for-play for CBS, NBC, Versus (TV channel), TNT, ESPN, Fox, ABC, CSTV, SportsChannel Philadelphia, Prism (TV channel), Fox Sports Net, and others.
Emrick earned a Bachelor's degree in speech from Manchester College in 1964, a Master's degree in radio/television from Miami University (Ohio) in 1969, and a Doctorate in radio/television/film from Bowling Green State University in 1976 (a degree from which he gets his nickname, "Doc"). He received the 2004 Lester Patrick Trophy and worked at that year's Summer Olympics, calling the men's and women's water polo competition. He also was the lead play-by-play man for the 2006 Winter Olympics for men and women's hockey action.
Emrick taught speech and broadcasting at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA from 1969-1971 and got his first experience of the NHL covering the Penguins as an unpaid correspondent for the Beaver County Times newspaper.
Emrick was the lead play-by-play announcer for The NHL on ESPN from 1986–1988. He first came to national over the air television doing regional games for The NHL on ABC from 1993–1994. In 1995, Emrick became the play-by-play man of The NHL on FOX game of the week, which was also known (during the "glow puck era") as the FoxTrax Game of the Week from 1995–98 (FOXTrax was not used during the 1998–99 season), calling the Stanley Cup Finals for FOX. After FOX relinquished the NHL rights to ABC, he became a regional announcer for The NHL on ABC, in the same backup game role he had at ABC in the early 90s, from 2000–2004. He would only call select playoff games at this time, but did file reports for ABC Sports and ESPN's Stanley Cup Finals coverage.
He is the current primary play by play announcer for the New Jersey Devils for their games on MSG Plus. He works together with Chico Resch and the pair is immensely popular with Devils fans. Emrick wore several hats in the 1980's working for the Philadelphia Flyers. He was a spot announcer for Flyers home broadcasts from 1983-86, then was an in-studio analyst between 1986-88 when not covering national games. Emrick was promoted to the lead play-by-play slot for both local TV and cable for the team in 1988, remaining with the Flyers until the end of the 1992-93 season. For four of those years, Emrick was paired with former NHLer and national hockey broadcaster Bill Clement.
Since the 2005–06 NHL season, Emrick has been the lead play-by-play announcer for The NHL on Versus (formerly The NHL on OLN) and The NHL on NBC, and since 2008, has served as an overall host of the telecast. He calls the top Conference Final and the entire Stanley Cup Finals for both networks. He has called games in 11 Stanley Cup Finals on TV (for ESPN, FOX, OLN/Versus, and NBC). He has also called six NHL All-Star Games for FOX and Versus. With the NHL returning to both networks for next season, he will add one more of each. He called the 1996 World Cup of Hockey for the Prime Network and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey for ESPN.
Emrick has done two Olympic Games for NBC and one for CBS, and will call Water Polo and Ice Hockey in the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, respectively. He also called some National Football League and men's NCAA basketball tournament games while at CBS, and called the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game and Championship Game while at NBC.
Emrick is a founding member, and still president of, the NHL Pronunciation Guide, which is used as a guide for all NHL broadcasters for some of hockey's most difficult names. He is Vice President of the NHL Broadcaster's Association, and he is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee. He was most recently honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame as the winner of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, for outstanding contributions to hockey broadcasting.