JP Dellacamera Question

[JayRockers!]

I just had the pleasure of watching the Flyers/Thrashers broadcast with JP working the mic. Is he one of those itinerate broadcasters who work multiple sports for multiple networks/teams, or is he gone from soccer/ESPN/NY/NJ Metrostars games? IMOFO, he is one of the best soccer announcers going and it would be a shame if he is gone.

Thx,

Jay!

[nyrmetros]

Originally posted by JayRockers!
Is he one of those itinerate broadcasters who work multiple sports for multiple networks/teams,

Yes...... He does NHL hockey in the Metrostars off-season.... nothing to worry about. :)

[DAGSports]

JP's contracts with both MSG (MetroStars) and Turner South (Thrashers) expire in the next year or so, if I remember correctly. I'd imagine he will take one of the jobs full-time (hockey if someone will let him), and then do a few soccer games for ESPN- mostly US National Teams.

[dcajedi]

Originally posted by DAGSports
JP's contracts with both MSG (MetroStars) and Turner South (Thrashers) expire in the next year or so, if I remember correctly. I'd imagine he will take one of the jobs full-time (hockey if someone will let him), and then do a few soccer games for ESPN- mostly US National Teams.

I would be more than happy if ESPN took him to do hockey and soccer. Jack Edwards did the same thing for a while. And the Metros PBP can be more than ably handled by Canglialosi or others (remember the guy who had the pbp of USA @ Honduras in 2001? He did Metros work for a while).

[Tom T]

I just read a article about the Soviet hockey team practicing in Erie, PA and playing an exhibition game vs. the Erie minor league hockey team just prior to the 1980 Olympics.
Quoted in that article, and a major source of information for the article, is one JP Dellacamera - then voice of the Erie minor league hockey team.
So, JP's hockey history goes way back.

[da_cfo]

Originally posted by Tom T
I just read a article about the Soviet hockey team practicing in Erie, PA and playing an exhibition game vs. the Erie minor league hockey team just prior to the 1980 Olympics.
Quoted in that article, and a major source of information for the article, is one JP Dellacamera - then voice of the Erie minor league hockey team.
So, JP's hockey history goes way back.

Yep.

JP struggled for years making a living broadcasting minor league hockey, with Erie, PA among one of his stops, before he got his first big break at ESPN International doing soccer in 1993.

JP did minor league hockey in Chicago (Chicago Wolves of the now-defunct IHL) a few years ago.

I remembered watching JP for the first time on ESPN doing a Missouri Valley Conference championship basketball game from St. Louis in March 1993 (which was a production of Creative Sports, now known as ESPN Regional Television or ESPN Plus), just prior to the launch of ESPN International.