If you are someone who still listens to Penguins games on the radio you will have a new voice speaking to you this upcoming season.
The Penguins have named Joe Brand the radio play-by-play voice of the Penguins Radio Network.
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) September 3, 2024
Brand will handle play-by-play duties for all Penguins games, primarily joined in the booth by long-time color analyst and two-time Stanley Cup Champion Phil Bourque.
The 33-year old joins the Penguins after spending the previous three seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks as their studio host and fill-in play-by-play broadcaster on WGN Radio 720 AM. His primary duties include hosting pre-game, intermission and post-game shows for all of Chicago’s regular-season games, and also hosting a weekly radio show – ‘Blackhawks Live’. In addition to his hosting duties, Brand called game action as the primary play-by-play broadcaster for Blackhawks preseason and select regular-season games as recently as last season when John Wiedeman was unavailable, working in the booth alongside former NHLers Troy Murray and Hockey Hall-of-Famer Chris Chelios.
I don’t listen to games on the radio so this will have a minimal impact on my day to day following the team. I do hope for those that do listen to the radio broadcasts that he brings more to the table than the previous iteration.
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