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Jiggs McDonald (John Kenneth McDonald) was born on 28 November, 1938 in Galt, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian sportscaster. Discover Jiggs McDonald's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As John Kenneth McDonald
Occupation broadcaster
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 28 November 1938
Birthday 28 November
Birthplace Galt, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1938

John Kenneth "Jiggs" McDonald (born November 28, 1938) is a sportscaster who has done play-by-play announcing for NHL games for more than 50 years.

1967

McDonald began his NHL broadcasting career in 1967, as the original voice of the expansion Los Angeles Kings.

Initially, the Kings considered pairing him with a then-unknown Al Michaels.

Although "Jiggs" (from the Bringing Up Father cartoon strip) had been McDonald's childhood nickname, he had never used it professionally, nor at all among those he'd come to know after becoming an adult, instead going by "Ken", a shortening of his middle name.

However, when he was hired by the Kings, the team's then-owner Jack Kent Cooke demanded that McDonald identify himself to listeners with a nickname that would be more memorable than simply "Ken McDonald".

McDonald objected to the use of the nickname, but Cooke was insistent.

After five seasons with the Kings, he joined the Atlanta Flames, also as that team's original announcer, with Bernie Geoffrion serving as his broadcasting partner.

The Flames' ownership offered to allow him to drop the "Jiggs" nickname, but he opted to keep it since it was by then well-established as the name by which he was known professionally.

1973

McDonald also worked for WSB-TV in Atlanta as weekend sportscaster from 1973 until 1980.

1980

When the Flames moved to Calgary in 1980, he joined the New York Islanders broadcast team as play-by-play announcer, replacing Tim Ryan; former Islanders captain Ed Westfall was the color commentator.

He spent 15 seasons as the Islanders' play-by-play man, and the team won three Stanley Cups during the period, and advanced to another Final.

Including national work, as well as work for other teams, he called the play-by-play of over 200 NHL playoff games.

Although he was not the announcer for the first (1980) Stanley Cup championship team, he hosted the New York Islanders' 25th anniversary celebration in 1996.

1982

Outside of ice hockey, McDonald served as an announcer for the New York Mets Major League Baseball team in 1982.

1988

In 1988, when the New Jersey Devils eliminated the Islanders from the playoffs, he did play-by-play on New Jersey Devils telecasts, partnering with Peter McNab when Gary Thorne is not available.

In future years, he did play-by-play on Toronto Maple Leafs telecasts and Florida Panthers radio broadcasts.

1989

He also broadcast a Super Series event between the Soviet Red Army @ the Buffalo Sabres on January 9, 1989 and the 40th National Hockey League All-Star Game on February 7, 1989 with Scotty Bowman doing the color commentary for both games.

1990

In 1990, McDonald received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame.

1992

In 1992, he did play-by-play on CTV for Olympic basketball games.

1995

In addition, he broadcast three Winter Olympics for ABC and TNT and Fox from 1995–99.

2003

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.

Following the 2003–04 season he retired, but he substituted for Dave Strader when the latter was on NHL on NBC assignments on Panther telecasts during the 2005–06 season.

2006

Since the 2006–07 season to 2016–17 season, he has returned to call Islanders games on MSG Network, filling in for Howie Rose (when Rose is on vacation or doing New York Mets games on WOR).

2010

In addition, he filled in for Florida Panthers radio play-by-play man Randy Moller for three games when Moller became ill in January 2010.

2015

With Rose broadcasting the Mets playoffs in 2015, McDonald filled in for the first 3 games of the 2015-2016 season.

2017

He returned in 2017 and call the Islanders' and Kings' games, both against the Panthers on January 11, and February 9, respectively.

On February 2, 2022, McDonald returned to the Islanders broadcast booth, filling in for regular announcer Brendan Burke, for the Islanders first game against the expansion Seattle Kraken team in the 2021–22 season, and then again on March 10, 2022 against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

With his Islanders work in 2022, he has called hockey games across seven decades.

He also did broadcasts on nationally televised NHL games for numerous networks.

Notably, he called games for SportsChannel America for five years, during which the channel was the rights-holder for national NHL telecasts with Westfall, Herb Brooks, Peter McNab, or John Davidson.

He returned in 2017 and call the Islanders' and Kings' games, both against the Panthers on January 11, and February 9, respectively.