ST. CLAIR — Renowned hockey broadcaster Mike "Doc" Emrick isn't a Michigander by birth. He's originally from La Fontaine, Indiana. But the 77-year-old has plenty of history here. Emrick, who lives in ...

Mike "Doc" Emrick, the legendary NHL broadcaster who has been calling hockey games for decades, is retiring. The New York Post was the first to report his retirement. “I hope I can handle retirement ...

Joe Thornton signed a one-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs after spending parts of the last 15 seasons with the Sharks, but he forever will be associated with San Jose. And some of that ...

PITTSBURGH — NHL announcer Mike “Doc” Emrick, who started out covering the Pittsburgh Penguins, is retiring. Emrick’s announcement was shared by NBC Sports. “There are very few words to adequately ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Before Sunday night’s NHL Outdoors Game at Lake Tahoe, NBC aired an hour-long special dedicated to Mike “Doc” Emrick’s incredible career as a ...

Legendary broadcaster Doc Emrick is officially hanging up the microphone. The longtime lead of NBC Sports’ hockey coverage is retiring after decades of calling play-by-play for multiple sports, ...

It is easy to be overlooked on a team like the Capitals which boasts star players like Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Evgeny Kuznetsov, T.J. Oshie and John Carlson. For Mike "Doc" Emrick, however, ...

Mike Emrick has been the voice of hockey in the United States for more than two decades. You might not remember this, the man we call “Doc” once worked with a coach who was famous for wanting to ...

It would seem fitting, given Mike “Doc” Emrick’s poetic genius at bringing a hockey game to life, to find just the right verb to describe his decision to retire this past week from his role as NBC ...

Don’t worry, hockey fans, it doesn’t look like Mike “Doc” Emrick is leaving the sport for baseball. It must be said, though, that once he “divorced himself from cheering,” Emrick’s velvety-smooth ...