Rick Peckham

Rick Peckham (born March 1955) is a retired play-by-play broadcaster for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team[1][2] and the 2020 recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award.

[3] Peckham served as the play-by-play announcer for the Hartford Whalers from 1984 through 1995.

Through 1977–84, he called games on television and radio for the AHL's Rochester Americans.

[5] Peckham was broadcasting Lightning games with the Florida-based Fox Sports Sun, as well as occasionally doing play-by-play for the NHL on NBC, a role that increased with the death of Dave Strader.

[5] This United States biographical article relating to ice hockey is a stub.