Pierre McGuire made his way onto Canada’s top sports television network on TSN to talk about the National Hockey League (NHL) trade deadline in 1998. The deadline was a subject matter McGuire was comfortable with. Having coached in the NHL for five years prior, McGuire had gone through the trial and tribulations of the trade deadline. Through his connections and experience McGuire had a grasp of the mindset of everyone else currently going through it, allowing him to have a flawless first experience on air.
Jump ahead two years later and McGuire found himself in the lineup for TSN’s hockey coverage and now, deemed one of hockey’s best personalities on air. McGuire went on air for a guest appearance 21 years ago and never looked back making a hall of fame career out of it. He says, “I never in a million years thought that I would be doing this for work”.
McGuire thought it would be a quick one or two year stint with TSN and he would go back to coaching. However, he loved the electrifying feeling of being between the glass at ice level giving the audience a sense of the fast-paced energy on the ice. He saw a future with sports broadcasting. Although it took commentating the World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game in 2003 that he knew he wanted to make a career out of sports broadcasting.
McGuire has played hockey at the college level, he’s coached hockey at the professional level, and now broadcasted hockey at the international level. Although, he has yet to run a hockey team. With being a general manager of a professional team on his mind, McGuire says, “the T.V. situation is pretty darn good”. It would take a lot to peal Pierre McGuire away from inside the glass.
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