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Louis James Nolan (born December 3, 1945) is the public address announcer for the
Philadelphia Flyers The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The team play ...
of the
National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...
. He has worked in this position since the 1972–73 NHL season, when he replaced former announcer Kevin Johnson. He has been on the PA for 8 Stanley Cup Finals, two NHL All-Star Games, the 2014 NCAA Frozen Four, and the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. When the 2004-05 season was cancelled because of a lockout, he was able to continue his duties with the Flyers AHL affiliate, the
Philadelphia Phantoms The Philadelphia Phantoms were a professional ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1996 to 2009. The club was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and played most of its home games at the Spectrum (arena), Spectrum ...
. Nolan was a venue announcer at the
2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...
. He attended St. Barnabas School and West Catholic High School in Philadelphia. He is married to Ellen and has two children. He resides in
Penn Valley, Pennsylvania Penn Valley is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community located within Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn Valley residents share a zip code with Merion Station, Pen ...
. Nolan's book "If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Flyers" (Triumph Books) was released in November 2017.


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