Kings broadcaster Bob Miller to miss more games because of shingles

By Helene Elliott

March 7, 2010 12 AM PT

Broadcaster Bob Miller, who is in his 37th season as the voice of the Kings, will miss at least three games while he recovers from shingles, a painful rash on the body that is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox.

Miller, 71, missed the Kings’ game against Montreal on Saturday, only the 18th broadcast he had missed and the first since Nov. 2, 2002.

He will miss Monday’s home game against Columbus and won’t travel with the team for its game Wednesday at Chicago.

He was not scheduled to call the Kings’ game Friday at Dallas, which is on radio only.

Miller, the 2000 recipient of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Foster Hewitt award for outstanding contributions to his profession and the game, said via e-mail Sunday he hopes to return for the Kings’ game next Sunday afternoon against Nashville at Staples Center.

Radio play-by-play announcer Nick Nickson will join analyst Jim Fox in the TV booth for the games Monday and Wednesday, both on FS West.

On the radio side, analyst Daryl Evans will team up with Mike Kalinowski, the club’s manager of communications, Monday and Wednesday.

Nickson and Evans will call the Dallas game.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Kings broadcaster Bob Miller to miss more games because of shingles

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