Overview
- The Calgary Flames announced Maher’s death Thursday and shared a family statement saying they are “heartbroken” and grateful for the outpouring of support.
- Maher began his professional NHL radio career in 1977, moved to Calgary in 1980 as the franchise’s first radio play-by-play announcer, and called every Flames game for 33 straight seasons.
- By his 2014 retirement Maher had called 2,954 Flames games and 3,162 NHL games overall, producing memorable calls across regular season and playoff runs.
- He narrated the Flames’ deepest playoff moments including the 1989 Stanley Cup win and the 1986 and 2004 finals runs, and he was the national radio voice who called Sidney Crosby’s 2010 Olympic 'Golden Goal.'
- Maher won the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award in 2006, has a Saddledome broadcast booth named after him and an annual local 'Peter Maher' Good Guy award, and outlets and fans have begun publishing tributes that trace his role in Calgary’s hockey culture as local radio changes.