Former National Hockey League coach and player Eddie Olczyk becomes a radio broadcaster
The former ice hockey professional and American international ice hockey player Eddie Olczyk, who played for 16 years in National Hockey League (NHL) for six different teams and coached Pittsburgh Penguins, has now become a broadcaster on the radio.
During his boyhood, Olczyk listened to the commentary of Pat Foley and now he would have the honour of sitting beside him and doing the same job. Together in Chicago, they do the job for Comcast SportsNet.
The former forward is also working for NBC, where he sits with hall of famer announcer Doc Emrick and does commentary for the televised games.
The Chicago, Illinois native feels proud of having the privilege of working with those, who he thinks are the best they have in NHL. Working with a hall of famer like Doc Emrick is a legendary figure who has been in the business for so long and Pat is someone
who has been doing at the job in Chicago also for a long time. He feels that working with them is a lot more easier as he told NHL.com,
"I've worked with the very best that we have throughout the National Hockey League. To be able to work with two voices of hockey -- Doc on a national level for so many years and working with Pat on a local level in Chicago -- when you work with the best,
it makes your job a lot easier because there is the intimidation and there is the awe factor”.
The 46-year-old former NHLer also said that it is an honour for him that he has this opportunity of accompanying the greatest of the people of the game and he learns so much from them. He considers himself lucky as he said,
“It's a privilege. I've been given so many gifts. To get a chance to sit next to those two guys on 122 nights a year to do hockey games, I'm pretty lucky”.
After playing for six different teams in the NHL from 1984 to 2000 and coaching Penguins from 2003 to 2005, this is the third job that Olczyk is doing and all are related to hockey and NHL.
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