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Former ECHL Broadcaster
Simpson Scales Kilimanjaro

July 15, 2008

Former ECHL play-by-play announcer and current NHL Network producer/host Rob Simpson recently accompanied Boston Bruins All-Star Zdeno Chara, who was visiting with international humanitarian organization Right To Play, on a trip through Tanzania as ambassadors for Right to Play.

The pair could hold the record for tallest duo to scale Mount Kilimanjaro with Simpson being 6-foot-6 and Chara at 6-foot-9 holding the distinction of being the tallest player in the National Hockey League.

Simpson chronicles the 37-mile trek up Africa’s highest mountain in a series of articles on BostonBruins.com and in the July 13 edition of the Boston Herald .

Simpson is the author of two books, “Black and Gold,” a book of photography and narrative on the Bruins which will be released in September, and “Between The Lines: Not-So-Tall Tales from Ray “Scampy” Scapinello’s Four Decades in the NHL” which he coauthored with Scapinello.

Simpson, who has 20 years of radio and television broadcasting experience including the 2002 ECHL All-Star Game, has spent the last three seasons hosting the Bruins weekly television and served as rink-side reporter during Boston telecasts.

He was the “Voice of the Idaho Steelheads” from the team’s inaugural season in 1997-98 to 2000-01 and was the “Voice of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies” from the team’s inaugural season in 2001-02 to 2002-03. The native of Detroit spent four years as producer and host of “Maple Leaf America,” a weekly program that Simpson created for Leafs TV about Leafs players, legends and fans across the United States.

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