ESPN National Hockey Night

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For the video game named after this ESPN show, see ESPN National Hockey Night (game)

ESPN National Hockey Night
Genre	Sports
Starring	Gary Thorne Bill Clement
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	180+ minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ESPN (1992-2004)

ESPN National Hockey Night is ESPN's weekly television broadcasts of National Hockey League regular season games and coverage of playoff games, broadcast from 1992 to 2004. ESPN had been slated to broadcast games for the 2004-05 NHL season, but the season's cancellation combined with the NHL reaching an agreement with OLN (now Versus) to broadcast games for the 2005-06 NHL season effectively ended National Hockey Night after the 2003-04 NHL season.

From its debut in 1992 until the 2001-02 NHL season, weekly regular season games were broadcast on Wednesday and were titled Wednesday Night Hockey. When ESPN started broadcasting NBA games on Wednesday nights in 2002, the weekly hockey broadcasts were moved to Thursday and the broadcasts renamed to Thursday Night Hockey.

[edit] Personalities

Erin Andrews: Ice Reporter
Chris Berman: Studio Host
John Buccigross: Studio Host
Bill Clement: Color Commentator
John Davidson: Color Commentator
Mike Emrick: Play-by-Play
Brian Engblom: Color Commentator, Studio Analyst
Ray Ferraro: Color Commentator, Studio Analyst
Steve Levy: Play-by-Play, Studio Host
Sean McDonough: Play-by-Play
Tom Mees: Play-by-Play
Barry Melrose: Studio Analyst
Al Morganti: Play-by-Play
Darren Pang: Studio Analyst
Bill Pidto: Studio Host
Darryl Reaugh: Color Commentator
Mickey Redmond: Color Commentator
Sam Rosen: Play-by-Play
Sam Ryan: Ice Reporter
John Saunders: Studio Host
Melissa Stark: Ice Reporter
Dave Strader: Play-by-Play
Gary Thorne Play-by Play

[edit] See also

Preceded by USA Network	NHL network broadcast partner in the United States 1985 - 1988	Succeeded by SportsChannel America
Preceded by SportsChannel America and NBC	NHL network broadcast partner (with NBC from 1993-1994, ABC from 1992-1994 and 1999-2004, and FOX from 1994-1999) in the United States 1992 - 2004	Succeeded by Versus and NBC

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