Rob Simpson

Rob Simpson is a Michigan-born sportscaster, comic and author residing and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He co-hosted Stellick and Simmer in the morning with Gord Stellick on Sirius-XM NHL Network radio for four full hockey seasons beginning in September, 2015.[1][2] Simpson previously hosted NHL Live and the Cisco All-Access Pregame Show on the same network, a simulcast program produced at the NHL headquarters in New York, that also aired on NHL Network television.[3][4] He previously worked as the rinkside reporter for Boston Bruins games on NESN for three seasons beginning in 2005, followed by the Madison Square Garden Network as a host, web columnist, and live rink reporter in 2010. He created and hosted the program Maple Leaf America on Leafs TV in Toronto for four seasons beginning in 2001.[5][6]

Simpson has authored three books about the National Hockey League. Between The Lines - Not So Tall Tales From Ray 'Scampy' Scapinello's Four Decades in the NHL in 2006,[7] Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs' in 2008 and 2010,[8] and The Winged Wheel: A Half-Century of The Detroit Red Wings in Photographs in 2012.[9] All were published by John Wiley and Sons. His fourth book, No Heavy Lifting - Globetrotting Adventures of a Sports Media Guy, was published by ECW Press in 2018.[10]

Simpson has taken part in and written about the NHL's humanitarian efforts in Africa with the non-government organization Right To Play. In 2007, he documented the visit of players Andrew Ference of the Boston Bruins and Steve Montador of the Florida Panthers to orphanages in Tanzania, and in 2008, joined Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara's fundraising effort while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.[11][12]