About Eddie Olczyk
Edward Walter Olczyk Jr. (; born August 16, 1966) is an American sportscaster and former professional ice hockey player and coach. He spent 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing as a center for the Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994. Olczyk was also the head coach of the Penguins from June 2003 to December 2005. Olczyk moved into broadcasting in his post-playing career, and currently provides commentary for NHL on TNT. He served as a television color commentator for Seattle Kraken games on the Kraken Hockey Network (KHN) from August 2022 to July 2026, as well as NHL on NBC until its end in 2021, and maintains a relationship with NBC Sports as a handicapper and analyst for that network's horse racing coverage. Throughout his career as an NHL player, he played 1,031 NHL games and produced 342 goals and 452 assists for a total of 794 points. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame on February 22, 2013. During the 1989–90 season Olczyk scored a point in 18 consecutive games, which was the longest streak by an American-born player in NHL history. The record was tied by Phil Kessel and later broken by Patrick Kane. Olczyk was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks as the third overall pick in the first round of the 1984 NHL entry draft. He was a star on the Illinois midget AAA team (Team Illinois) that won the 1982 national title against a Detroit Compuware squad that featured future NHL stars Pat LaFontaine and Al Iafrate.
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