Darren Pang enters his third season as Coyotes’s TV color analyst.
Darren Pang enters his third season with the Coyotes as the team’s TV color analyst. Pang joined the Coyotes from ESPN where he spent 12 seasons working national broadcasts of the National Hockey League.
Pang, 43, also provided color commentary for NHL contests on NBC last season and also served as a studio analyst for Canada’s TSN network in the post-season. Additionally, he provided radio color analysis for the NHL Network during the playoffs including the Stanley Cup Finals last season.
Pang joined ESPN2 in September 1993 as an NHL game analyst and worked with the network for over a decade including NHL playoff contests on ESPN and NHL telecasts on ABC Sports. After 2001, he also provided analysis on select editions of NHL 2Night on ESPN2. Pang broadcast two of the longest and most memorable playoff games in NHL history on ESPN – the five overtime period thrillers between Anaheim and Dallas in April 2003 and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in May 2000. In 1988, he worked as a guest analyst for ESPN during the Norris Division playoffs.
In addition, Pang worked as an ice level reporter for the men’s hockey coverage in Nagano, Japan during the 1998 Winter Olympics on CBS and for NBC’s coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games.
Previously, Pang served as the Chicago Blackhawks post-game show host from 1990-92. Then from 1992-97, he hosted the pre-game, between period and post-game call-in shows for Blackhawks games. He also served as a color analyst, studio analyst and reporter for CCHA telecasts on SportsChannel Chicago from 1989-94 and was an analyst for IHL games on Prime Network from 1989-93.
The Meaford, Ontario native had an outstanding junior career playing goal for three seasons in the OHL with Belleville and Ottawa. An OHL First Team All-Star in 1984, Pang led the Ottawa to the 1984 Memorial Cup championship while earning Memorial Cup All-Star Team honors. He also captured the Hap Emms Memorial Trophy as the Memorial Cup tournament’s top goaltender and was named to the OHL First All-Star Team.
Pang played three NHL seasons, all with the Blackhawks, from 1984-85 to 1988-89. He played in a total of 81 games, compiling a 27-35-7 record and 4.05 GAA. In 1987-88, he was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team and finished third in the race for the Calder Trophy. At the Blackhawks training camp in 1990, he suffered a knee injury that prematurely ended his playing career.
From 1996-99, Pang served as goaltending coach for Notre Dame and for Indianapolis (CHL) from 2002-04.
Pang and his wife Lynn have two children: son Tyler and daughter Samantha. The family resides in Peoria.
