Longtime NHL analyst Pierre McGuire will be joining the broadcast team on the Penguins Radio Network this upcoming season.
The network announced the news on Wednesday morning, saying that McGuire, who worked with the Penguins organization in the early 1990s, will be part of pre-game and post-game coverage on the radio network for 41 of the team’s games this upcoming season.
McGuire will also be part of some episodes of Penguins Live Weekly, the broadcast team’s weekly podcast.
A mainstay throughout the National Hockey League media landscape over the past several decades with TSN and with NBC Sports, McGuire worked as between-the-benches on-ice analyst alongside Doc Eric and Eddie Olczyk for several years.
Throughout his career as an analyst, McGuire has been a part of several memorable moments in Penguins history, including when he was caught between then Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette and former Penguins assistant coach Tony Granato, who nearly went toe-to-toe themselves in 2012 as tempers flared on the ice ahead of the cross-state rival’s upcoming playoff series.
McGuire was also part of some more humorous moments, like asking Phil Kessel “How’s your breath?” after a big game in the 2016 Eastern Conference Final, with the Penguins winger thinking he was asking about the smell, followed by a clarification that McGuire was asking about his conditioning.
A polarizing figure that there is no shortage of opinions about, McGuire’s involvement with the Penguins broadcast team will certainly offer plenty of insight and knowledge alongside Paul Steigerwald and Brian Metzer.
The Penguins’ 2025-26 season is less than one month away as the team will head to New York City to face former head coach Mike Sullivan and the Rangers on October 7 at Madison Square Garden.