Jiggs McDonald began his NHL broadcasting career in 1967, as the voice of the expansion Los Angeles Kings.In November 2003, he announced his 3,000th regular season game; his number of games called is thought to be the highest by an NHL announcer.He was the original voice of both the Los Angeles Kings, as well as the Atlanta Flames, so he got a first hand look at 2 of this years Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Rogie Vachon and Pat Quinn.When the Flames moved to Calgary in 1980, He joined the New York Islanders broadcast team as play-by-play announcer, taking over for Tim Ryan; where he would spent 15 seasons as the Islanders' play-by-play man, a period in which the team won three Stanley Cups .since then he has also done play-by-play on Toronto Maple Leafs telecasts and Florida Panthers radio broadcasts. Following the 2003–04 season he retired but he has returned to call Islanders games on MSG Network, filling in for Howie Rose With his Islanders work in 2010, he has called hockey games across six decades. In 1990, he received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame. He joins Mark and AJ to talk Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2016.
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