--- title: This Hockey Announcer Had a Seriously Close Call with a Puck description: NBC announcer Pierre McGuire was on the sidelines when a game puck came whizzing by his head, missing him by inches. canonical: https://time.com/5532470/hockey-announcer-puck/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-19T16:18:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:33.311Z og:title: This Hockey Announcer's Dicey Call with a Puck Is a Lot og:description: NBC's Pierre McGuire came within inches of getting hit in the head with a puck og:url: https://time.com/5532470/hockey-announcer-puck/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Hockey Announcer's Dicey Call with a Puck Is a Lot twitter:description: NBC's Pierre McGuire came within inches of getting hit in the head with a puck twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hockey Announcer's Intense Close Call with a Game Puck Is Quite a Lot > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 19, 2019 4:18 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 19, 2019 4:18 PM UTC Hockey commentator Pierre McGuire was on the job at the Columbus Blue Jackets vs. Tampa Bay Lightning [NHL game](http://time.com/5516403/nhl-analyst-hockey/) at Ohio’s Nationwide Arena on Monday night when he encountered a [game puck](http://time.com/5502447/snoop-dogg-hockey-game/) launched at full speed in closer proximity than, perhaps, ever before. As caught on camera by the film crew, McGuire’s head was inches from a puck that went cruising through his reporting area at the edge of the ice. The NBC sports analyst was posted up between the two teams’ benches, just off the rink and — terrifyingly — within shooting distance for the players. (Not, of course, that they would be aiming for McGuire intentionally.) While McGuire’s head did not end up as the puck’s final resting place, the puck did make direct contact with the camera lens directly after, making for a dramatic video of its trajectory. Despite McGuire’s close call with a puck to the head, he seems ready to get back on the sidelines once more. “It’s all part of what goes on down here,” he is quoted as saying on the NBC Sports Twitter account. Hockey is known for [its fast pace](http://time.com/5247961/capitals-puck-girl-player/) and [risk for injury](https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/capitals/explaining-unwritten-rules-and-etiquette-hockey-fight), so it seems even reporters know they’re in for a wild ride with the sport. As for the game? Ultimately, the Blue Jackets fell to the Lightning 5-1. > [](https://twitter.com/BlueJacketsNHL/status/1097677659419656192) > [](https://twitter.com/NBCSportsPR/status/1097666851000279041) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5532470/hockey-announcer-puck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5532470/hockey-announcer-puck/"},"headline":"Hockey Announcer's Intense Close Call with a Game Puck Is Quite a Lot","datePublished":"2019-02-19T16:18:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:33.311Z","description":"Hockey is not for the faint of heart","url":"https://time.com/5532470/hockey-announcer-puck/","keywords":["Newsfeed","hockey","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5532470/hockey-announcer-puck/","name":"Hockey Announcer's Intense Close Call with a Game Puck Is Quite a Lot"}}]}] ```