Doc Emrick - The voice of hockey calls it a career
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Mike 'Doc' Emrick the voice of hockey in the NHL for NBC, joins Craig to discuss his new book, 'Off Mike' his career in hockey, and why he decided to call it a career.
Doc looks back on his Hockey Hall of Fame career, the people he worked with, the people who inspired him like Dale Carnegie and Ernie Harwell. Doc also discusses a couple of his notorious calls, the Patrick Kane Stanley Cup winner in 2010 and Sidney Crosby's gold medal winner in 2010.
Doc tells Craig what it was like to call his final Stanley Cup playoffs remotely from the safety of his home studio, and what he is looking forward to most in retirement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custin's and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:10.3 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to |
| 0:15.5 | entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:18.9 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60. |
| 0:22.9 | I am thrilled to be joined by Doc Emric, the newly retired Doc Emric. |
| 0:30.7 | And that brings me great joy. |
| 0:33.2 | There's some people I get super jealous of when they retire and I resent them, if we're |
| 0:37.5 | going to be completely honest here. |
| 0:38.7 | And there's some people that I'm like, boy, have they earned any rest they've got? |
| 0:42.3 | And Doc, how are you? |
| 0:44.8 | Great. |
| 0:45.5 | I really appreciate your inviting me on this show before any of this even happened. |
| 0:51.4 | And I'm glad we can live up to the time together. This will be fun. I am so excited about this. Yeah, I want to say for the record, like this was, we, you know, we extended the invitation, didn't know that you had huge news. And it's interesting, Doc, because I read the book that you did with Kevin, which was, was fantastic. And let me just plug that right away. The book is called |
| 1:11.0 | Off Mike. And it's, you know, it's a story about how a kid from basketball crazy Indiana |
| 1:18.9 | becomes one of the biggest names in hockey. And it was funny to read this after you had announced |
| 1:26.6 | your retirement because, you know, as this book progresses, it's clear that, you know, you hadn't made that decision as you're writing this. |
| 1:34.9 | And then by the end, I'm like, oh, wait, you know, I'd love to know where your head was at. |
| 1:39.3 | When did this, when did you kind of swirl all this run in your head and then ultimately make the decision? |
| 1:52.0 | Sometime around the third round of the playoffs, so I guess that would have been after Labor Day, which would have been early September, I guess. It just had not even crystallized in my mind when the playoffs began, and then as time passed, |
| 2:03.1 | and it wasn't exactly one event that triggered it, although one of several that I've recalled since then |
| 2:09.2 | was Brian Boucher was talking about goaltending, and he mentioned the name Ken Dryden. |
| 2:14.8 | And I thought to myself, you know, the first year out of the last 50 that I was covering |
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