Deborah Kaufman Placey (born March 17, 1966) is an American
sportscaster who currently co-hosts the television program, NHL Live, with EJ Hradek on the
NHL Network, as well as The
BlackBerry
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All-Access Pregame show on
NHL.com. On September 6, 2018,
MSG Network announced Placey was leaving the regional sports network to take a new on-air position with the NHL Network.
Placey had previously served as a news anchor/reporter for the
New Jersey Devils
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' televised games on
MSG Plus and the
MSG Network. Placey joined the New Jersey Devils in 2011 after 10 seasons as pre-game and intermission host for
New York Islanders
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telecasts. Placey's earlier TV anchor work includes stops at
WSIL-TV in
Carterville, Illinois,
KWWL-TV in
Waterloo, Iowa
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,
WPRI-TV in
Providence, Rhode Island
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and
WSVN-TV in
Miami
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, Florida.
Prior to joining MSG in the mid-1990s, Placey regularly appeared on
ESPN2
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ESPN2 was initially ...
at the time of ESPN2's infancy (October 1993) through mid-1995. From 2004 through 2005, Placey worked as a fill-in weekend sports anchor and reporter for
WNBC-TV
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, the
flagship
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NBC affiliate.
Born and raised in
St. Louis, Missouri, Deb Placey is married to Edward Placey, a senior coordinating producer at
ESPN
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.
The Placeys have two daughters, Madeline and Caroline, and a
beagle named Lucky.
References
External links
MSG biographyDeb Placey's Twitter Account
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National Hockey League broadcasters
New Jersey Devils announcers
New York Liberty announcers
Women's National Basketball Association announcers
New York Islanders announcers
1966 births
Living people