Since joining the Lightning in 2002,\u00a0Mishkin has mixed in some television and simulcast hockey play-by-play calls for various networks, commentating high school hockey, prospect 3-on-3 tournaments as well as the 2015 ECHL All-Star Game on livestreams.<\/p>\n
Before making the jump to the NHL, Mishkin called his final regular season game with the Hershey Bears of the AHL alongside U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike \u201cDoc\u201d Emrick on television.<\/p>\n
Now two decades later, he\u2019s got an NHL television debut to his name.<\/p>\n
A different microphone but the same Mishkin magic<\/p>\n
Mishkin called his NHL playcalling debut \u201csmooth\u201d thanks to those around him as he reflected on the Vancouver game one day later.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Radio, it’s a far smaller operation. On the road it’s me on the air, an engineer sitting next to me in the away booth and somebody back in Tampa. That’s basically it. I’m basically in a boat with an oar\u2026it\u2019s just a much smaller crew, even at home,\u201d Mishkin said.<\/p>\n
That proverbial boat crew looks much different for an on-screen production.<\/p>\n
\u201cA telecast is more like a yacht ship in you’ve got the captain, the engineer and the person working down here swabbing the deck. On a road trip we travel for TV with a producer, a director, a graphics\/stats person and a replay person. Those are four people in addition to Dave (Randorf) and Brian (Engblom). And then you\u2019ve got other people in the truck. What I would say about the experience is all the people that were involved have so much experience and made the transition very smooth, and I\u2019m very grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He met with St. Louis Blues play-by-play announcer Chris Kerber on Thursday as the teams were staying in the same hotel in Canada. The broadcasters shared a coffee while talking through the adjustment to television.<\/p>\n
Kerber told him the calls are similar, adding that nobody listening to hockey has ever called an announcer too descriptive. Mishkin on radio typically focuses more on the puck, where television is more of a back-and-forth live interaction with the color analyst such as Brian Engblom.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very descriptive on radio. I didn’t need to talk as much or as descriptively when the picture is showing where the puck is\u2026I do tend to stay on the puck more, and the analyst talks when there’s a whistle. With TV, you don’t need to do that. Last night Brian was talking while the play was going on, which is good because you have a picture there, and I’m guiding the play along. At times, I was on every pass, but I wasn’t saying, \u2018right wing, left wing, near corner, far corner.\u2019 It was more just identifying the player and saying what the player was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another major difference was having a TV producer speaking in his ear to guide him in and out of commercial breaks or advertisement reads, but he said the crew and producer Brad Bartle were \u201cfantastic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Despite Thursday\u2019s game in Canada featuring a 10 p.m. start here in Florida, fans likely had no trouble staying awake and focused as Mishkin put a voice behind Tampa Bay\u2019s 6-2 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since joining the Lightning in 2002,\u00a0Mishkin has mixed in some television and simulcast hockey play-by-play calls for various…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-199771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}