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Kings Original Announcer To Return For One Game
Jiggs McDonald was the Kings play-by-play announcer for their first five seasons, leaving after the 1971-72 season.
EL SEGUNDO, CA -- Jiggs McDonald, the Los Angeles Kings original play-by-play broadcaster, will be among four broadcasters working on the team's telecasts this season as Bob Miller takes a reduced on-air role, the team announced Wednesday.
McDonald was the Kings play-by-play announcer for their first five seasons, leaving after the 1971-72 season to join the expansion Atlanta Flames. He later was a play-by-play broadcaster for the New York Islanders and Florida Panthers.
McDonald will call the Feb. 9 game at Florida.
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The Kings announced last month Miller will call 58 games this season, including all home games. In the other 16 games he is not scheduled to work Gary Thorne will call eight and Chris Cuthbert and Ralph Strangis four each.
Thorne broadcast hockey for ABC and ESPN, including the Stanley Cup Final, and SportsChannel America and the New Jersey Devils. He is now an announcer with baseball's Baltimore Orioles.
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Cuthbert has been a hockey announcer for NBC and cable's NBCSN, "Hockey Night in Canada" and the Canadian all-sports network, TSN.
Strangis spent 25 seasons announcing games of the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars.
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