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Inside The Glass With Kevin Allen And Pierre McGuire

01/08/2016 at 6:23pm EST

from Kevin Allen of USA TODAY,

All in all, going "Inside the Glass" with McGuire for NBC's broadcast of the game was one of the most entertaining assignments of my career.

Here are the my takeaways from the experience:

Time flies: I knew the game was faster when watching from ice level, but I didn't realize how quick time passes when you are in the center of the action. When I heard play-by-play man Kenny Albert in my headset say there was less than a minute to go in the first period, I was shocked. There’s so much going on right in front of you that you lose all sense of time. Line changes are happening two feet away, coaches are barking commands and players are calling for the puck. It’s all mesmerizing.

McGuire’s complicated job: He may not be speaking to viewers every minute of the game, but he is always talking to someone, often a member of the NBC production crew to let them know he has a story to tell or what video they should cue up. McGuire likes to identify eight possible story lines for the game.

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