Legendary Pittsburgh Penguins play-by-play announcer Mike Lange died on Wednesday. He was 76 years old. Lange served as Penguins’ broadcaster in 1974 and again from 1976 to 2021 before announcing his retirement.

"My product was hockey, and to get you interested in coming to a game. If we could do that, that was important to me," Mike Lange told Guy Junker in 2017.

The Pittsburgh Penguins have issued a statement following the passing of legendary broadcaster Mike Lange Wednesday night.

The Pittsburgh Penguins confirmed Wednesday night that Mike Lange, the Hockey Hall of Famer who retired in 2021, died earlier in the day at his Pittsburgh home. "Mike Lange was a wordsmith – a magician behind the mic.

Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange, whose imaginative goal calls made his raspy voice immediately recognizable to Pittsburgh Penguin fans for decades, has died. He was 76.

While Saturday was an afternoon puck drop, it still felt like “A Hockey Night in Pittsburgh” as the Penguins community celebrated the life and legacy of Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange, who died on Wednesday.

Tributes and memories of the longtime Pittsburgh Penguins broadcaster Mike Lange are pouring following the news of his death at the age of 76. Lange died on Wednesday and within minutes of the news breaking of his death, tributes and memories were being shared across social media.

The Pittsburgh Penguins honored Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Lange during an emotional ceremony before their game against Washington.

Lange, the voice of Penguins hockey for nearly 50 years, cast an everlasting shadow over a city and its hockey team.

Before Dan Bylsma arrived in Pittsburgh during the 2008-09 season, the Michigan native knew of Mike Lange’s goal calls and the color he added to Penguins broadcasts. “‘Scratch my back with a hacksaw’

Lange, who died at age 76 on Wednesday, spent 46 years calling games for the Penguins, initially educating, entertaining and growing a relatively non-existent fan base during the franchise’s dark days, and then eventually chronicling, celebrating and punctuating championships won by Hall-of-Famers.