![]() ![]() In 2010, Miller and TSN colleague Chris Cuthbert were selected by Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium as play-by-play announcers for the men's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In 2002, Miller became TSN's lead hockey play-by-play announcer when it reacquired national broadcast rights to the NHL. He also covered the IIHF World Championships and Women's World Championships.įrom 1998 to 2002, he returned to the broadcast booth as the English television play-by-play voice of the Montreal Canadiens on TSN's regional feed for 4 seasons. That year also began his run as a part of TSN's annual World Junior Ice Hockey Championships coverage as the lead play-by-play announcer in 2002. In 1994, he began doing hockey play-by-play regularly as the lead announcer on the network's CFL coverage, including the Memorial Cup, as well as more frequent NHL assignments, including studio host duties for TSN's NHL coverage. He joined TSN in 1993 and occasionally calling NHL hockey when needed. ![]() Prior to joining TSN, Miller worked for CBC in Edmonton, where he covered the Edmonton Oilers. He also covers the annual NHL Entry Draft, provides play-by-play for CFL games, and does occasional play-by-play for NBCSN in the United States. ![]() He is the lead play-by-play announcer for the TSN Hockey and is the lead announcer for TSN's coverage of international hockey, including IIHF World Junior Championships. Thirty-five years later, the two crossed paths once again.Gord Miller (born June 21, 1965) is a Canadian sportscaster for Bell Media's sports cable network TSN. ![]() One of his responsibilities was to give incoming freshmen tours of the school and, as fate would have it, Gadowsky was part of one of his tours. One of them was Guy Gadowsky, now the head coach at /9B6N6fpivMĪs Gadowsky recalled Monday afternoon, Miller was the student council president of Strathcona High School in Edmonton, Alberta. Prior to the game, Gadowsky and Miller reunited for a quick photo that morning, which gave Miller the opportunity to share a fun story about an interaction he had with Penn State’s bench boss on Twitter.Īs a Grade 12 student in 1982, I took a group of Grade 9 students on an orientation tour of our high school. Last weekend, Miller commentated Notre Dame’s 1-0 victory over Penn State for NBC Sports Network. The most famous of his calls, however, came outside of the NHL in the 2009 World Junior Championship Semifinal between hosts Canada and Russia. Throughout his career, he has called many Stanley Cup Playoff game sevensfor national audiences in Canada and the United States. Today, Miller still works with TSN, but calls nationally televised games in the United States for NBC Sports Network, too. Since moving on to TSN in 1993, he has called games nationally and regionally for Canada’s equivalent of ESPN. He also calls games in the World Junior Championships for TSN every year. Gord Miller, meanwhile, began his broadcasting career in 1990 with CBC, the largest national network in Canada. Over the summer, Gadowsky was invited to be a guest coach at Calgary’s training camp. He hired Glen Gulutzan onto his staff of the now-defunct Fresno Falcons (WCHL) back in the late 1990s today, Gulutzan is the head coach of the Calgary Flames. Gadowsky found his niche coaching at the collegiate level with Princeton, Alaska-Fairbanks, and now Penn State, but he still has plenty of connections in and around the NHL. Since their time in high school, the two have traveled down very different paths in the game of hockey. Penn State head coach Guy Gadowsky and NHL play-by-play commentator Gord Miller both attended Strathcona in the mid-1980s. Last weekend, two alumni of Strathcona High School in Edmonton, Alberta reconnected during Penn State hockey’s weekend series against No. ![]()
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