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Former
National Hockey League All-Star Bill Clement, who played 11 years in
the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and the
Atlanta/Calgary Flames, is the Studio Host for NHL games on Versus
as well as NBC.
Bill was
the lead game analyst for ESPN’s extensive schedule of National
Hockey Night telecasts for 20 years and also worked select games on
ESPN2. From 2000-2004 he was the lead analyst for ABC Sports’ NHL
telecasts and has also covered hockey for CBC and CTV. Clement has
worked every Stanley Cup Finals televised in the U.S. since 1986.
Clement
also worked for TNT at the 1992 Albertville, France Olympics and was
NBC’s Studio Analyst at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002. He will
be NBC’s Studio Host in Torino for the 2006 Winter Olympics. In 1992
Bill Clement won a CableACE award as the best analyst in any sport
on Cable Television and in a 1996 reader survey conducted by The
Hockey News, was voted, “Favorite National TV personality”.
In early
1990, Clement entered the world of professional speaking and is now
making corporate and association presentations on an international
basis. He is also a trained actor who has appeared in more than 250
television commercials. Clement also appeared in the ABC soap opera
All My Children.
The former
center began his pro career with the Flyers organization in 1970 and
played for two Stanley Cup champions (1974, ’75) with the “Broad
Street Bullies”. After one season (1975-76) with the Capitals, in
which he played in the NHL All-Star game, Clement was traded to the
Atlanta Flames, where he played for five seasons and was selected to
his second All-Star Game (1978). In 1980, he moved with the Flames
to Calgary, where he finished his career in 1982.
Clement is
a native of Thurso, Quebec, the same Canadian town that produced
Hall Of Famer Guy Lafleur. Clement and Lafleur both have streets
named after them. Clement is married with three children and resides
in Bucks County, PA. |
