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Bill
Clement's Hockey World with Special Guest Riley
Cote |
04/29/09 |
 BILL CLEMENT: NHL
Analyst
Former National Hockey League All-Star Bill Clement, who played
11 years in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers, Washington
Capitals and the Atlanta/Calgary Flames, is the Studio Host for
NHL games on Versus as well as NBC.
Bill was the lead
game analyst for ESPN’s extensive schedule of National Hockey
Night telecasts for 20 years and also worked select games on
ESPN2. From 2000-2004 he was the lead analyst for ABC Sports’
NHL telecasts and has also covered hockey for CBC and CTV.
Clement has worked every Stanley Cup Finals televised in the
U.S. since 1986.
Clement also worked
for TNT at the 1992 Albertville, France Olympics and was NBC’s
Studio Analyst at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002. He will
be NBC’s Studio Host in Torino for the 2006 Winter Olympics. In
1992 Bill Clement won a CableACE award as the best analyst in
any sport on Cable Television and in a 1996 reader survey
conducted by The Hockey News, was voted, “Favorite National TV
personality”.
In early 1990,
Clement entered the world of professional speaking and is now
making corporate and association presentations on an
international basis. He is also a trained actor who has appeared
in more than 250 television commercials. Clement also appeared
in the ABC soap opera All My Children.
The former center
began his pro career with the Flyers organization in 1970 and
played for two Stanley Cup champions (1974, ’75) with the “Broad
Street Bullies”. After one season (1975-76) with the Capitals,
in which he played in the NHL All-Star game, Clement was traded
to the Atlanta Flames, where he played for five seasons and was
selected to his second All-Star Game (1978). In 1980, he moved
with the Flames to Calgary, where he finished his career in
1982.
Clement is a native
of Thurso, Quebec, the same Canadian town that produced Hall Of
Famer Guy Lafleur. Clement and Lafleur both have streets named
after them. Clement is married with three children and resides
in Bucks County, PA.
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