There have been a lot of instrumental players and coaches who have helped build the Nashville Predators into a successful NHL team, but you’d be leaving a major one out if you didn’t bring up former NHL player, coach and current broadcaster Terry Crisp.
Crisp has been with the Nashville Predators broadcast team from the start in 1998, and quickly became beloved by everyone in area as we learned this complex sport called hockey. He’s helped teach the game to so many fans in the South who didn’t know much about hockey, if anything, before 1998 when the Nashville Predators became an expansion team.
In an announcement that’s tough to swallow for fans because we’re greedy like that, Crisp has officially announced that this will be his last season covering the Predators in the broadcast booth, per the team’s official website.
Nashville Predators see another legend retire
I can’t express enough how lucky this fanbase has been to have Crisp call the games both on television with his outstanding partner Pete Weber, and also more recently in the intermission reports with Lyndsay Rowley, yet another awesome analyst who covers the Predators for Bally Sports South.
When you’re ready, you’re ready. And it seems like Crisp has accomplished everything he could’ve wanted to in this sport in so many different ways. This is what he had to say about his decision, per the team’s website.
“It was not a hard decision for us because it has been such a great trip. We’ve had so much in our hockey life and coming to Nashville was one of the best decisions we ever made. We were able to start with a new franchise and watch it grow, all while having a lot of fun in a wonderful city.” -Terry Crisp on his retirement decision
Crisp always brings the honesty and unfiltered opinions to the game and how the team is performing. When Crisp is breaking down a play, I listen with full attention because most of the time, I’m going to learn something.
The hockey knowledge from Crisp comes from a long background in hockey, starting off as a player for 10 seasons until 1977, and then into coaching.
Crisp has 536 games of NHL experience as a player, and 286 wins as a coach and a Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1988-89 season.
What a decorated and incredible career in hockey for Crisp, and the fact that he landed with the Predators as a broadcaster and analyst is so fortunate for this market.
We still get to enjoy the rest of this season with Crisp covering the intermission reports for the Predators’ regional coverage on Bally Sports South. Much like we had Pekka Rinne’s farewell tour last season, this will be another farewell tour for Crisp throughout the rest of the season.
Happy retirement to Mr. Crisp and his family. Someone will have some major shoes to fill for next season’s local broadcast, but for now let’s enjoy the time we have left with him covering the Predators this season.