Doc Emrick on the pressure of calling overtime in NHL Playoffs: ‘Don’t overdo it. This is about the players’
"You need to be on top of it, you need to be right"
"You need to be on top of it, you need to be right"
The documentary will feature interviews with 20 NHL players and broadcasters.
Sportscasters Bill King, Jim Nantz, and Dick Stockton, and sportswriters Larry Merchant, William Nack, William C. Rhoden, and Rick Telander are the NSMA's latest Hall of Fame inductees, while Nicole Auerbach and Mike "Doc" Emrick were chosen as sportswriter and sportscaster of the year.
Emrick has been calling hockey for nearly 50 years, beginning in the minor leagues.
"The joy of covering a playoff is being close to players and after the pack peels away, going and sitting down next to a player in a dressing stall and asking a question about something you’ve been curious about and all of a sudden you get a story that you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise about a player’s background that you can use in your telecast. And there’s no chance of that this year."
Eddie Olczyk said he doesn't think calling games with Doc Emrick from different locations will be a problem. "We've worked long enough together that I really believe we'll be able to have the same cadence or symmetry. Once we get through a game or two, it will be just like we're sitting together."
"That was quite a period!"
'Tonight is the best medicine I've had in such a long time."
NHL on NBC Doc Emrick is on the Mount Rushmore of play by play announcers working today. The...
"Game 1 is up for grabs. It's up to us to fuckin' take it."
Doc Emrick is the best in the business, but he's still very gracious with his time.
Doc Emrick is not just a man of the people but some would even say he’s the voice of hockey in...