Chris Cuthbert

Chris Cuthbert
Born	1957 (age 59–60) Toronto, Ontario
Sports commentary career
Genre(s)	play-by-play
Sports	Canadian football, ice hockey

Chris Cuthbert (born 1957) is currently a Canadian play-by-play sportscaster for Bell Media's TSN cable network, and for the American television network NBC on NHL on NBC. Formerly, he worked for CBC Sports in a multitude of roles.

He was lead play-by-play voice for Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for CTV, where he worked alongside Pierre McGuire.

Cuthbert joined CBC Sports in 1984, where he anchored regional western games for Hockey Night in Canada, usually from Edmonton. He also got spot play-by-play work when the network's primary western broadcaster, Don Wittman, was busy covering other events for the network, or when the schedule load necessitated it.

He got his big break during the 1988 Stanley Cup Playoffs. On April 18, he was positioned as a reporter in Washington, providing brief and periodic reports of the Washington Capitals-New Jersey Devils game to the national CBC viewing audience watching the Canadian network's game broadcast from Montreal (the Canadiens against the Boston Bruins). A power outage struck the Montreal area, which ended the telecast from that city, and CBC was forced to turn to Cuthbert in Washington to provide the full broadcast - play-by-play, analyst, and host. The broadcast was totally done off the cuff as besides no regular analysts, there were no graphics or replay capabilities. His stellar solo effort caught the network's attention, was nominated for a Gemini Award, and launched what has been a very successful broadcasting career.

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