Mike \u201cDoc\u201d Emrick is widely regarded as the greatest announcer in NHL history, but even he has calls he would have liked to get a mulligan on.<\/p>\n
Nearly 16 years after Patrick Kane scored the Stanley Cup-clinching overtime goal for the Chicago Blackhawks, it\u2019s the call that still bothers Emrick, who was the lead voice for the NHL on NBC at the time. Emrick joined the latest episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast<\/a>, where he discussed a variety of topics, including Barry Melrose, Charles Barkley, the glow puck era, and the one call he wishes he could do again.<\/p>\n Emrick called 22 Stanley Cup Finals and six Olympics in his career. But when asked whether there were any games or events in history he wishes he had been on the call for, Emrick pointed only to the one call he wishes he could do over.<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s one I sure would have liked to had back, and that was when Patrick Kane scored in Philadelphia and won the Stanley Cup for Chicago in 2010,\u201d Emrick said. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t really make me feel any better that none of the other guys on press row that were broadcasting could see the puck either.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you call an overtime game, you want to make sure the call is clean, and that one was anything but, because I was not able to see it,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/p>\n Emrick explained that there is an off-ice official up in the press box whose only job is to turn on the goal light. And from his vantage point, he was able to see that the puck went into the net, but the rules prevented him from turning the light on until an on-ice referee pointed at the net. The referee never pointed, the light didn\u2019t turn on, and it ultimately kept Emrick from saying \u201cscore\u201d until after the players began spilling onto the ice in celebration.<\/p>\n \u201cNBC gave me the chance to redo it as I was retiring<\/a>, and I got it right. I did a wonderful job calling on that I knew how it was going to go,\u201d Emrick said with a smirk. \u201cBut that night, it was substandard.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen to the full episode of the Awful Announcing Podcast featuring Doc Emrick by subscribing to the show on\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>, and wherever you get your podcasts. For more content, subscribe to AA\u2019s\u00a0YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike \u201cDoc\u201d Emrick is widely regarded as the greatest announcer in NHL history, but even he has calls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[172304,4824,272923,385,272924,32703,99],"class_list":["post-631414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-awful-announcing-podcast","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-doc-emrick","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-on-nbc","tag-patrick-kane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}