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Patrick Daniel Kelly (September 17, 1936 – February 10, 1989) was a Canadian-born sportscaster best known for his TV/radio play-by-play coverage of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, from 1968 until his death 21 years later, as well as for his national television work on NHL telecasts in both the United States and Canada.
Originally, the St. Louis Blues aired their games on KPLR-TV and KMOX radio, with team patron Gus Kyle calling games alongside St Louis broadcasting legend Jack Buck.Buck elected to leave the booth after one season, though, and was replaced by another famed announcer in Dan Kelly.
Daniel Patrick Kelly (born October 15, 1973) is an American sportscaster.He is the son of St. Louis Blues broadcaster Dan Kelly, and he is also the nephew of hockey and baseball broadcaster Hal Kelly, and the younger brother of current St. Louis Blues and former Colorado Avalanche TV play-by-play broadcaster John Kelly.
In 1980, Bob Cole, Dan Kelly and Jim Robson shared play-by-play duties for CBC's coverage. Cole did play-by-play for the first half of Games 1 and 2. Meanwhile, Kelly did play-by-play for the second half Games 1–5 (Kelly also did call the overtime period of Game 1). Finally, Robson did play-by-play for first half of Games 3 and 4 and Game 6 ...
By this time, Dan Kelly [48] was joined by former NHL on NBC commentator, Tim Ryan. [49] Kelly did play-by-play for the first and third periods as well as overtime. [50] Meanwhile, Tim Ryan did play-by-play only for the second period. Minnesota North Stars general manager Lou Nanne [51] was the color commentator throughout the game.
Starting in the 1978 playoffs, the NHL Network began simulcasting many games with Hockey Night in Canada. In these games, Dan Kelly, who was the NHL Network's lead play-by-play announcer, was assigned to do play-by-play along with HNIC color commentators.
The post Hockey Fans Disappointed By ESPN Announcer List Absence appeared first on The Spun. Earlier this year, the NHL struck a TV deal with ESPN that’ll last through the 2027-28 season. After ...
The following is a list of current (entering 2024–25 NHL season) National Hockey League broadcasters.With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games ...