Dave Shea (broadcaster)

David W. Shea (b. c. 1950) is an Irish-American sportscaster, who is best known as the former ice hockey announcer for Hockey East and the Boston Bruins. He was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame on November 19, 2008.

He began calling the college game in 1984, and joined the Bruins telecasts on NESN as an intermission host in 1986. He was also a play-by-play announcer for ESPN's coverage of the NCAA Hockey Regionals from 1994-97.

Shea was named the road announcer for the Bruins (Dale Arnold did home games) in 1997 after hall of famer Fred Cusick retired. He held that position until the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

After the 2004-05 lockout, Shea took a temporary job with the Washington Nationals baseball team as a radio analyst. NESN did not renew his contract, fearing his unavailability for Bruins games in the case of the Nationals qualifying for the playoffs. He was replaced by Jack Edwards, formerly of ESPN.

A thirty-plus-year broadcasting veteran, Shea has called hockey, football, soccer and basketball for numerous professional and college teams, including the Minnesota Timberwolves, Boston Breakers, Atlanta Chiefs, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Harvard Crimson and the Boston College Eagles. He also served as the radio voice of the Pawtucket Red Sox for three summers during the mid-1990s.

He had been a co-host briefly on WEEI on The Big Show with Glenn Ordway in its infancy.

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