Voices of Hockey

It's great to be back and we take our first trip of the series to the DEL, Germany's top league, where we naturally speak to a voice from Portsmouth England!Des Squire worked in sports media in Germany before getting the dream call to work with the hockey club he supported through thick and thin. From Dinamo Berlin in the old East German league to the now powerhouse Eisbaeren Berli

From Sudbury Ontario via the OHL and AHL to become the play by play voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs... our guest for Episode 8 of Voices of Hockey is none other than Joe Bowen.He's been the voice of the Leafs games since 1982 and has called over 3,000 NHL games and his passion and enthusiasm is still as strong as ever.From listening to Foster Hewitt on the radio to winning an awar

Premier Sports & FreeSports play by play voice Aaron Murphy joins us for Episode 7 of the podcast.Murph has been a regular voice on our screens in the UK calling EIHL, SHL, KHL and Champions Hockey League as well as Great Britain games at World Championships.Hear his journey from Newfoundland to his current home in Ireland and how he became one of our Voices of Hockey.You can follo

Episode 6 of the pod moves across to Canada and a distinctive voice of hockey who has called NHL games on both major Canadian networks, was a huge part of the rise in popularity of the World Juniors in Canada and also worked with IIHF as the voice of their extended video content.A great broadcaster who now presents his own podcast 'The Walrus Was Paul' talking to Canadian music cel

Each week we talk to someone whose voice - whether a broadcaster, rink announcer or podcaster - has become synonymous with hockey in the UK or further afield.In this fifth episode, we return to the world of the rink announcer and a man who has been the voice of two top flight teams in the west of Scotland and last year took the adage that the show must go on a little too far as he

In our fourth episode we move to cover the podcast genre which is now a big part of UK hockey media but out guest this week was something of a podcast pioneer when he started a podcast covering the Belfast Giants in 2005.Since then 'A View From The Bridge' has produced well over 700 episodes and has been made an official outlet of the Giants along the way.Patrick Smyth is this week

This week's guest commentated as Great Britain reached the top division of the World Championships, has covered the Winter Olympics on numerous occasions, called NHL teams playing in London and started with the Medway Bears on Radio Kent.Delighted to have Bob Ballard joining this edition of Voices of Hockey. As well as his ice hockey career, Bob has also commentated on swimming, di

We're back with a second episode following last week's debut featuring Jon Hammond.This week's guest is Paul Ferguson who became a household name in the UK hockey scene in the 80s and 90s with his commentary on both domestic and international hockey alongside summariser Richard Bophrey.The duo are always featured highly on fans lists of memorable commentators and I was delighted to

In this first episode we talk with the first voice of the Manchester Storm, Jon Hammond.Jon was brand new to ice hockey when he took on the Storm announcer role in 1995 but made the role very much his own making match nights at the Storm Shelter a fantastic experience.We hear that Jon could have been the arena voice of another club before taking on the Storm gig, talking to over 17

Craig Simpson introduces a new podcast series from march74sports - catching up with people from the world of hockey whose voice has become synonymous with the game.Voices from television and radio, arena public address announcers and podcasters - from here in the UK and from around the hockey world.