Longtime NHL announcer Mike “Doc K” Emerick is retiring as a broadcaster on Monday.
“I hope I can handle retirement well, especially since I’ve never done this before,” Amerik told the New York Post. “But I’ve only been very lucky for 500 years. And NBC is very good for me, especially after the epidemic, when I was allowed to work from home in the studio I built.
“Now, in my golden years, this time seemed right.”
Moving to the network in a full-time role in 2011, the NHL on NBC and NBC Sports. Em is 74-year-old American as the president’s voice for sports. Prior to that, he served as a play-by-play advertiser for the New Jersey Devils. For 21 seasons.
Amrik’s routine includes calling up 22 Stanley Cup finals. He had stents at ESPN and ABC as well as Fox and CBS and six Olympic Winter Games.
In 2008, American was inducted into the Hockey Key Hall of Fame, which awarded him the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his contribution to hockey broadcasting.
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