"I walk back to the booth and I hear Pat bringing us on: ‘Welcome to Blackhawks hockey…’ and then we were going to show the video clips of Coach Derek King, Connor Murphy and Kirby Dach from the night before,” Eddie said. He was in another room being assessed and didn't realize a backup plan had been formulating behind the scenes. While this is happening, Eddie has no idea that Nick is preparing to step in. At that point, Foley was in front of the camera, mic in hand and getting ready to go live on the air within the next minute or two. Nick wrapped up his thoughts, took off his headset, quickly packed up his things then sprinted to the television booth, which was about four or five doors down. "I sit there and I'm in the middle of making a point about what to look for in the Blackhawks game tonight against the Wild and how they can bounce back with a better effort and all of a sudden I see the note, I'm like: 'Holy cow.' So of course my mind starts racing into a million different things." "He hands it to me as I'm in the middle of talking about the game and it says: 'Your dad is ill, you need to go do TV,'" Nick said. He turned back around, saw Foley leave and noticed Wiedeman writing something down on a sheet of paper. "They both had concerned looks on their faces," Nick said.īut Nick continued on with his point on the air. He was live on the radio recording a segment with WGN Radio's Joe Brand on the pregame show when he noticed Foley walk into the room and converse with radio play-by-play announcer John Wiedeman. Nick was aware his dad wasn't feeling 100 percent but didn't realize the magnitude of the situation until minutes before puck drop. "And I got a pretty good scare on Saturday where everything kind of just came together unfortunately." "I've just been fighting a lot of medical issues over the last handful of weeks," Eddie told NBC Sports Chicago. It eventually reached a point where he had to be evaluated by doctors - which included Minnesota's Sheldon Burns, who had known Eddie since he was a teenager when the two of them were part of Team USA - just minutes before the broadcast was set to kick off. The circumstances that led to that point, however, were less than ideal and it made for a whirlwind of a debut.īefore the game, Eddie was going through his normal preparation but wasn't feeling very well. It all sounded pretty familiar, right? That’s because it was … sort of.Įddie Olczyk's son Nick, who has been one of the radio color analyst fill-ins for Troy Murray this season, made his television debut that night and anybody watching and listening could notice the resemblance with his dad. If you turned on the Blackhawks game during the third period on Saturday against Minnesota, you might not have heard anything too different from the man sitting next to Pat Foley in the broadcast booth.
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