Boston.com · May 31, 2019
A day at the rink with NBC’s Mike Emrick
Mike Emrick has been the lead play-by-play voice for the NHL on NBC since it was in its previous incarnation on Versus in 2005-06.Mike Emrick is the Vin Scully of hockey, a play-by-play broadcaster whose pleasant mastery of so much about the job — cadence, anecdote, and defter deployment of verb than Roget, for starters — has made him virtually universally beloved in a disagreeable age when spiteful arrows are aimed at even the best of us.