Pierre McGuire

Pierre McGuire is a former broadcaster, scout, and assistant coach. On July 12, 2021 he was named Senior VP of Player Development for the Ottawa Senators.

McGuire won a Stanley Cup as an assistant coach alongside Scotty Bowman with the 1992 Pittsburgh Penguins. McGuire joined the Hartford Whalers in 1992 and became a head coach in 1993. After being fired following the 1993/94 season, the Hartford Courant published a scathing article that claimed that "In 15 years of covering the NHL, we had never seen a coach so universally disrespected and disliked within his own organization". Whalers Captain Pat Verbeek said that the firing of McGuire was the best thing that could have happened to the Whalers. Verbeek alleged that McGuire was mocked by other teams and players did not have any respect for him.

McGuire then became a scout and eventually an assistant coach with the Ottawa Senators in the 1995 season. He was fired in January 1996.

McGuire began his broadcast career in 1997 as a colour commentator for Montreal Canadiens games. He joined TSN nationally in 2002 as the lead hockey analyst. McGuire joined NBC for US broadcasts in 2006 and left TSN in 2011.

McGuire has been a long time guest on TSN 1200's morning shows.

He is one of the most polarizing personalities in the game of hockey. He is infamous for knowing detailed aspects of hockey players including things like who coached them in Bantam and which high school they attended. His [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6v4-2a1lCU "double Dion!" reaction to Dion Phaneuf's double hit] in the 2005 World Junior Championships is iconic. He has a vast catalogue of soundbites where he is overly enthusiastic, strangely knowledgeable, or socially awkward.