Emrick to receive Vin Scully Achievement Award

Mike "Doc" Emrick, the voice of the NHL on NBC, will receive the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Broadcasting on Nov. 2 from WFUV Radio in New York, the radio station announced Tuesday.

"When I received the call from Vin Scully that I'd been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award that bears his name, I was speechless, and that's rare for me," Emrick said.

Emrick has been the primary play-by-play broadcaster for NBC since 2011 but has broadcasted more than 3,000 games in his 39 years covering professional hockey, including 32 in the NHL. He received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008 and became the first broadcaster inducted into…