Play-by-play voice greeted fans to broadcasts with, "It's a Hockey Night in Pittsburgh!" among many familiar phrases ...

Mike Lange’s iconic goal calls weren’t a string of undefeated success. The ones that stuck emerged from a trial-and-error process. “People gave him ideas and he would try some of them,” former ...

Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange, whose imaginative goal calls made his raspy voice immediately recognizable to Penguins ...

Lange, the voice of Penguins hockey for nearly 50 years, cast an everlasting shadow over a city and its hockey team.

Before starting a radio or television broadcast, the late Mike Lange famously told his audience, “It’s a hockey night in ...

"He was like the people's broadcaster, and I think that's what made him so special to people. They knew that connection was ...

This story was originally published on May 15, 2017. A guy walked into the former Wren Haven bar in Scott Township where Penguins announcer Mike Lange was having lunch and said to the bartender “Buy ...

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Before Dan Bylsma arrived in Pittsburgh during the 2008-09 season, the Michigan native knew of Mike Lange’s goal calls and the color he added to Penguins broadcasts. “‘Scratch my back with a ...

Legendary Pittsburgh Penguins broadcaster Mike Lange has died. In a report from The Athletic's Josh Yohe, Lange died at his ...

Lange, who was 73 at the time he retired, started with the Penguins in the 1974-75 season. He left for a year, then returned ...

The NHL returned to action after the incredible success of the 4 Nations Face-Off with two of the legendary players of this generation going head to head once again with Sidney Crosby and the ...