NHL Now!!

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If you are a diehard hockey fan or if you're just interested in learning about this fast-paced winter sport, then look no further. Brian Biggane brings more than 35 years of sportswriting experience, the last 13 of which have been spent covering the Florida Panthers and the NHL, to NHL Now. "This is the one show on my network that I have the biggest aspirations for", says network boss, Greg DePalma. "Hockey is so unpublicized that I feel strongly we can give all fans, old and new, the type of show they have been longing for. Brian is well respected in the hockey community and his ability to translate what he knows about the sport onto this network and into your living rooms will be a great asset to me and the sport of hockey."

Biggane is a 1972 graduate of St. Bonaventure University and his first newspaper was the Tonawanda News, where his first interview was conducted with Buffalo Sabres legend Gilbert Perreault. He covered the Buffalo Bills (and O.J. Simpson) from 1974-77 before moving to Florida, where he became the Miami Dolphins beat writer for the Fort Myers News-Press in 1977 and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 1978-80. He moved to The Palm Beach Post in 1980 and covered college football, auto racing and college basketball before becoming the paper's first Miami Heat beat writer from 1988-93. After covering soccer's World Cup in 1994, he moved to the Panthers beat and was there every step of the way through the 1995-96 "Season of the Rat" and the team's run to the Stanley Cup Finals and ever since.