{"id":1334,"date":"2018-10-23T19:39:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/podcasts\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:39:40","slug":"espn-john-buccigross-spotlight-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2018\/10\/23\/espn-john-buccigross-spotlight-episode-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s John Buccigross talks college hockey&#8217;s depth, expansion on USCHO Spotlight Episode 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1335\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/podcasts\/files\/2018\/10\/bucci-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESPN&#8217;s John Buccigross talks college hockey on this week&#8217;s USCHO Spotlight (photo: ESPN.com).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On episode 3 of USCHO Spotlight, hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by ESPN&#8217;s play-by-play voice of the Frozen Four John Buccigross.<\/p>\n<p>John talks about the growth and future expansion of college hockey, how it&#8217;s impacting the NHL, the depth of talent in today&#8217;s game, and his thoughts on future Frozen Four venues.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-spotlight\/id1437717447?mt=2\">on iTunes<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185680\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=16037018&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Sponsor this podcast! Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advertisecast.com\/USCHOSpotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.advertisecast.com\/USCHOSpotlight<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he co-writes &#8220;Tuesday Morning Quarterback.&#8221; Jim is the winner of the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=45222\">Joe Concannon award<\/a>. He a former color analyst for UMass-Lowell hockey&#8217;s radio network and studio analyst for NESN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Trefzger <\/strong>has been part of USCHO since 1999 and now serves as a senior writer and director of technology. He is the radio play-by-play voice for Rochester Institute of Technology hockey on the RIT Tigers Sports Network, and has been involved with the broadcasts as a producer, studio host, and color commentator since their inception. He is co-owner and president of broadcasting company Genesee Media, and was general manager of the former Rochester, N.Y., sports radio station 97.5 The Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On episode 3 of USCHO Spotlight, hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by ESPN&#8217;s play-by-play voice of the Frozen Four John Buccigross.<\/p>\n<p>John talks about the growth and future expansion of college hockey, how it&#8217;s impacting the NHL, the depth of talent in today&#8217;s game, and his thoughts on future Frozen Four venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1181],"tags":[1226,1242,1287],"coauthors":[886],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ESPN&#039;s John Buccigross talks college hockey&#039;s depth, expansion on USCHO Spotlight Episode 3 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On episode 3 of USCHO Spotlight, hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by ESPN&#039;s play-by-play voice of the Frozen Four John Buccigross. 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