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=Rob Simpson=

Rob Simpson (born May, 1964 in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American sportscaster, hockey reporter and author. He's a reporter and host for the [NHL Network], [XM Radio], and [NHL.com], for [MSG] Network in New York, and the author of the books "Between the Lines - Not So Tall Tales from Ray 'Scampy' Scapinello's Four Decades in the NHL" and "Black and Gold - Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs", published by John Wiley and Sons in Toronto, Canada. During the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Simpson hosted the Cisco All-Access Pregame Show through the Stanley Cup Final between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. He's a featured host on the weekday talk show [NHL Live] broadcast from New York throughout North America.

Biography
Career

Simpson recently spent three seasons (2005-2008) as the Boston Bruins rink side and beat reporter for the New England Sports Network. He also co-produced and hosted a thirty minute magazine style TV program called Rubber Biscuit, a cult favorite among regional sports fans. He also produced and hosted the feature program Hockey Odyssey on the NHL Network in 2008. For four seasons prior to joining the Bruins, Simpson created and hosted Maple Leaf America on [Leafs TV] in Toronto. Early in his career he took the road less traveled, with stops in Alabama and Florida covering news, in Australia doing voice work during a six month travel adventure, in Honolulu, Hawaii for five years as a news reporter, weatherman, and sportscaster, and in Boise, Idaho as a hockey, baseball and tennis play-by-play man and TV host. Besides penning two hockey books, he's contributed articles to numerous publications including Oahu This Week and Hockey News.

Extracurriculars

An avid runner, bicyclist, and globetrotter, Simpson recently combined these health and travel interests for an international charity adventure. On July 4, 2008, Simpson summitted Uhuru Point on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. He accompanied Boston Bruins captain [Zdeno Chara] and three others up the mountain to raise money and awareness for the international humanitarian organization [Right To Play]. The trek was documented, along with a trip by Chara and Calgary Flames defenseman Robin Regehr to Mozambique, for an hour program on the NHL Network entitled Summer With Zee. Simpson also produced a first person half-hour behind-the-scenes version of the climb which ran on the same network on the rarely seen Hockey Odyssey. In the summer of 2007, Simpson produced and hosted an hour long documentary featuring the NHL's first visit to Africa with Right To Play, with [Andrew Ference] of the Boston Bruins and Steve Montador, then of the Florida Panthers. The group visited poor children in cities and rural villages to promote Right To Play's humanitarian effort. A month later, despite previously parting ways with the hockey club, Simpson joined the Boston Bruins Foundation for a second time in 2008 for the [Pan Mass Challenge], an annual two-day, 192-mile bike ride across Massachusetts which raises money for cancer research. Simpson resides in Delaware and in New York City.