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Oilers play-by-play announcer Jack Michaels reflects on 15 years behind the microphone
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Jack Michaels has had the mic for the Edmonton Oilers broadcasts for 15 years since the icon Rod Phillips retired.
Phillips called the first -ever NHL Oilers game at the raucous Chicago Stadium on Oct. 10, 1979 .
The Hockey Hall of Famer’s banner hangs from the rafters at Rogers Place alongside the pantheon of other Oilers greats who had their jersey numbers retired.
Michaels applied for NHL jobs with the Florida Panthers , New York Islanders , Penguins and Columbus Blue Jackets .
He did get one offer in the American League in Peoria , St. Louis ’ farm team, but couldn’t take that pay-cut.
He was a long-shot because he’s an American voice and there were scores of interested guys with Canadian passports.
Michaels didn’t hear from the Oilers for 10 days , and he went to on a family holiday to Hawaii .
“I sold it to a funeral home. Stew looks at me and says really?’ I said yeah, Keys to Burying an Opponent.’ He cracked up.
Michaels started out covering the lowest rung of high school football in Pennsylvania at a radio station.
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