Another NBC hockey broadcaster has willfully outed himself as a caveman. This time, it's Mike Milbury, who stumbled his way through a joke about the lack of women in the NHL's playoff bubbles.
"If you enjoy playing and being with your teammates for a long period of time, it's a perfect place," the play-by-play announcer said. "Not even any women here to disrupt your concentration," Milbury cracked back.
NBC fired Jeremy Roenick in February after the ex-player said on a Barstool podcast that he wanted to have a threesome with his wife and NBC colleague Kathryn Tappen. Roenick is currently suing NBC and alleging "anti-straight discrimination."
The league and NBC criticized Milbury, but didn't announce any punishment for him, although one reporter said that Milbury would be held off a Friday broadcast.
In a statement, the NHL said it "condemns the insensitive and insulting comment that Mike Milbury made during last night's broadcast, and we have communicated our feelings to NBC."
Milbury apologized and NBC says it has "addressed" it.
"I sincerely apologize for making the comment," Milbury said. "I was trying to be irreverent and took it a step too far."
Milbury, who has been covering hockey on TV since 2007, is best known in New York for taking off a Rangers fan's shoe and hitting him with it in a 1979 Bruins-Rangers game.
