FILE - Former Chicago Blackhawks player Eddie Olczyk speaks during the NHL hockey team’s convention in Chicago, July 26, 2019. During last year’s Kentucky Derby , Olczyk did what every horse racing fan and handicapper has done at one point — he changed his pick and ended up regretting it. The major difference though is that Olczyk’s flip happened when nearly 15 million people were watching.
Olczyk — a part of NBC’s Kentucky Derby coverage since 2015 — remains a part of the network’s horse racing coverage even though it no longer carries the NHL. This is his third season doing hockey for Turner Sports, but it gives him a couple of days during the NHL playoffs to cross over and return to the track.
Olczyk had been lobbying his NBC bosses for a couple of years to be part of the horse racing coverage. It wasn’t until he sat down to talk to analyst Randy Moss during the 2014 Sochi Olympics that things started to move forward. Olczyk worked some of the Breeders’ Cup challenge series races in 2014 and hit on a pair of longshots.
“All we talked about was horses, not hockey. After the second period, he came back up and sat down again, and all we talked about was horses and not hockey. It was obvious at that point that Eddie was not just a hockey guy. He knew a lot about horse racing, very knowledgeable about horse racing.”
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