Ralph Strangis

Ralph called his final NHL game on December 18, 2021 on television for the Chicago Blackhawks (in Dallas against the Stars) with Caley Chelios and Genna Rose, marking the first time the Hawks had a female analyst in their booth.

Ralph’s broadcasting and media career started with his first paying radio job in 1977 at KTWN in Anoka, Minnesota and has run on several parallel tracks.

He has supervised, written, produced, hosted and narrated long and short form documentaries, features, training and corporate videos, podcasts and audio projects, seminars and live events.

For the 2016-17 NHL season, Strangis worked 26 games for the Los Angeles Kings TV on Fox Sports West, filling in for the ailing Bob Miller.

Ralph’s formal acting career began in the early 2000’s with stage roles in Dallas area theaters that include – Dr. Mitchell Lovell, “Murder at the Howard Johnson’s”, Coach Michael, “Rounding Third”, Chef, “Don’t Dress for Dinner, Various roles “Almost Maine”, HBO Executive, “Pure Country” (reading) Casa Manana, Fort Worth, Texas, and Larry Mann, “Hospitality Suite”, Gilley’s Dallas.

Strangis is writing and creating content online, "shining light on the pitfalls of cultural conditioning, shoddy education, and fear-driven practices in sports and life."

Strangis' earliest national exposure was as play-by-play man and ring announcer for the American Wrestling Association on ESPN,[1] where he worked alongside Lee Marshall,[2] and later Eric Bischoff,[3] in the waning days of that promotion.

Although Strangis had a great deal of broadcast experience, his tryout as color commentator on the Minnesota North Stars radio network was a longshot; other better-known local hockey personalities received more air time during the auditioning process.