DEVELOPING: Mike Emrick Leaves NJ Devils To Focus Full-Time on NBC/Versus

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Richard Sandomir of the New York Times just tweeted:
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This follows the news that Dave Strader is leaving the Phoenix Coyotes to work full-time for NBC/Versus. So apparently with the new ten year contract, NBC/Versus plans to have Doc Emrick and Strader carry most of the workload on calling games and got a full-time commitment from both. Doc has called New Jersey Devil games since the early 1990’s.

Newsday’s Neil Best tweets that Doc wanted to cut back on his travel schedule.
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In my opinion, Doc is the best at calling NHL play-by-play and I’m happy to see that he’ll continue calling national games.

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