They’re among the best hockey has to offer and possess more than 120 combined years of NHL broadcasting experience. So it should come as no surprise that Mike Lange, Mike “Doc” Emrick and Bob Cole are all working the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The first playoff meeting between the NHL’s top two regular-season clubs since 2001 has meant three of the sport’s all-time play-by-play greats are together narrating every twist and turn between the Capitals and Penguins as only they can — Lange for the Penguins Radio Network, Emrick for NBC and Cole for Rogers Sportsnet.
What follows are a collection of stories and thoughts, reported while watching a morning skate with perhaps the most identifiable hockey voices in Pittsburgh, the United States and Canada:
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Emrick still has the rejection letter.