Obviously, we are disappointed that we didn’t win.” Sullivan will always be linked with his captain in Pittsburgh. As the captain of Team Canada, Sidney Crosby enjoyed yet another international victory,

The Pittsburgh Penguins community is mourning the loss of Mike Lange, the legendary voice of the team for nearly 50 years. The team confirmed Lange’s death to Channel 11 on Wednesday. Since then, tributes have started pouring in for the hall-of-fame broadcaster.

Lange spent 46 years with the Penguins. Story highlights Mike Lange, longtime Pittsburgh Penguins announcer, died at 76. Lange had a 46-year career with the Penguins. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001.

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. The team confirmed Lange’s death Wednesday.

"He was like the people's broadcaster, and I think that's what made him so special to people. They knew that connection was there," says Lange's longtime broadcast partner, Paul Steigerwald.

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’

During Mike Lange's time covering the Penguins, the team won the Stanley Cup five times: 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, and 2017.

Before starting a radio or television broadcast, the late Mike Lange famously told his audience, “It’s a hockey night in Pittsburgh.” It was his first famous catchphrase in a Hockey Hall of Fame career full of unforgettable ones.

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.

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

Mike Lange, who spent 46 years behind the mic for the Pittsburgh Penguins as one of the most unique broadcasters in professional sports – known for his colorful, creative style and trademark sayings – died on Wednesday.