Inside Hockey

 

BOB McKENZIE
To Canadians, he’s known simply as the TSN Hockey Insider.

Bob McKenzie provides insight and commentary as an analyst for TSN’s NHL and international hockey coverage. McKenzie also continues to file updates and breaking news for SportsCentre, as well as write his popular Hockey Insider feature on TSN.ca, Canada’s leading sports website.

In 2008, McKenzie won the Gemini Award for Best Studio Analyst for his work on the 2008 IIHF World Junior Championship: Gold Final. This marked McKenzie’s first Gemini Award win and his second consecutive nomination in the Best Studio Analyst category.

McKenzie has been covering hockey for the past 30 years and is one of the most respected analysts in the business. His unparalleled contacts in the hockey world, combined with an abundance of hockey knowledge and a genuine love for the game, make McKenzie the most well-informed, trusted and connected man in the business.

McKenzie joined TSN in the late 1980s as an analyst on SportsCentre and Molson That’s Hockey, and has been a fixture on the network ever since covering the NHL, IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship, NHL Draft, NHL Trade Deadline and five Olympic Games including the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

McKenzie’s considerable contributions to the game have been recognized by The Hockey News over the years, as he has been selected nine times as one of the game’s 100 most powerful and influential people.

Prior to joining TSN, McKenzie was the editor-in-chief of The Hockey News for nine years and a hockey columnist for The Toronto Star for six years.

DARREN DREGER
An integral part of TSN’s comprehensive hockey coverage, Darren Dreger breaks news, files stories that take viewers inside the game, and is part of panel discussions and debates. He also appears on SportsCentre and That's Hockey, and contributes regularly to TSN.ca.

His lengthy hockey broadcast experience includes hosting Ottawa Senators, Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs games, hosting NHL pre-game shows, game analysis for the IIHF Men's World Hockey Championship, and was an integral part of hockey broadcasts at he last two Olympic Winter Games. Dreger also hosted the Leafs Lunch talk show on Toronto’s AM 640 radio station.

Dreger is no stranger to the family having worked at CTV Winnipeg from 1993 to 1997 as a sports anchor and hockey reporter. Born in Red Deer, Alta., Dreger grew up in Saskatchewan and broke into the broadcast industry in 1987 at CJGX Radio in Yorkton, Sask.

RYAN RISHAUG
Ryan Rishaug is the Edmonton reporter for SportsCentre, TSN's flagship news and information program.

Rishaug, who joined TSN in 2004, reports on the Edmonton Oilers and Eskimos, as well as other sports stories in the Edmonton area. In addition, Rishaug has covered numerous high-profile events for TSN including the Olympic Games, IIH World Junior Championship and Stanley Cup Final.

From 2000 to 2003, Rishaug worked in Edmonton at CTV's CFRN as the weekend sports anchor before moving to the weekday six o'clock sports anchor desk. Rishaug is no stranger to TSN viewers, having appeared on the network as a sideline reporter for Wendy's CFL on TSN: Friday Night Football telecasts in 2003.

Rishaug's extensive sports broadcast experience also includes work as a sports anchor and reporter for CTV's Sudbury-based MCTV (1999-2000) and as a sports anchor for Global Television in Saskatoon (2000). Rishaug's first job in the industry was as a sports reporter at CFJC-TV in Kamloops, B.C. (1998-1999).

Rishaug attended the Broadcast Communications program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. A sports enthusiast, Rishaug played right wing for one season in the WHL with the Kamloops Blazers.
ELLIOTTE FRIEDMAN
Elliotte Friedman joined CBC in October 2003 and is a commentator with Hockey Night in Canada. As part of his duties with Hockey Night in Canada, Friedman hosts Inside Hockey, a feature airing every Saturday during Scotiabank Hockey Tonight that tells the stories of the people and places that shape the game of hockey.
DARREN PANG
Darren Pang, one of the premier announcers in hockey, is the color analyst with FOX Sports Midwest on St. Louis Blues telecasts. Pang will work alongside John Kelly in the television booth, forming one of the most accomplished broadcast teams in the NHL.

Pang provides commentary for national NHL telecasts on NBC and has served as a studio analyst for Canada’s TSN network. He came to FOX Sports Midwest after four seasons as the Phoenix Coyotes’ TV analyst. Prior to the Coyotes, Pang spent 12 years covering hockey for ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC. He has also provided radio color analysis for the NHL Network during the playoffs. In addition, Pang worked as an ice level reporter for the men’s hockey coverage in Nagano, Japan during the 1998 Winter Olympics on CBS and for NBC’s coverage of the 2002 Winter Games and will work as a studio analyst at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver with TSN/CTV.

Previously, Pang served as the Chicago Blackhawks post-game show host from 1990-92. The from 1992-97, he hosted the pre-game, between period and post-game call-in shows for Blackhawks games. He also served as a color analyst, studio analyst and reporter for CCHA telecasts on SportsChannel Chicago from 1989-94 and was an analyst for IHL games on Prime Network from 1989-93.

The Meaford, Ontario played three NHL seasons, all with the Blackhawks, from 1984-85 to 1988-89. He played in a total of 81 games, compiling a 27-35-7 record and 4.05 GAA. In 1987-88, he was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team and finished third in the race for the Calder Trophy.

Pang and his wife Lynn have two children: son Tyler and daughter Samantha. The family resides in St. Louis, MO during the season and Peoria, AZ during the offseason.
SCOTT BURNSIDE
Scott Burnside covers the NHL for ESPN.com. Before joining the website in 2005, he was a reporter for The Windsor Star and Toronto Sun. Burnside also co-authored the best-selling true crime book "Deadly Innocence."
DOUG MacLEAN
Doug MacLean has over two decades of experience in the National Hockey League, serving in a variety of administrative, personnel and coaching capacities with the Columbus Blue Jackets, Florida Panthers, St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals and Detroit Red Wings. He most recently acted as both President and General Manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets from 1998 to 2007.

Prior to joining the Blue Jackets, he served as the head coach in Florida, where he led his teams into the playoffs in both of his full seasons behind the bench (1995-96, 1996-97). In his first season as a NHL head coach, MacLean led Florida to a 41-31-10 record during the regular season. The fourth seed in the Eastern Conference, Florida won three playoff series to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals where they were eventually defeated by the Colorado Avalanche. His work behind the bench earned MacLean the Hockey News Coach of the Year Award, recognition as a finalist for the Jack Adams Award and two consecutive stints as head coach of the Eastern Conference All Star Team.

MacLean's previous NHL experience includes a four year association with the Detroit Red Wings where he held positions of assistant coach, associate head coach and assistant general manager. He also held assistant coach positions with the St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals.

MacLean began his coaching career as an assistant with the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, while pursuing a master's degree in educational psychology at the University of Western Ontario, and then spent a year as the head coach at the University of New Brunswick before joining the St. Louis Blues in 1985. MacLean and his wife, Jill, are the parents of a son, Clark, and daughter, Mackenzie. The family currently resides in Columbus Ohio.