Bios
Josh Brewster
Writer, Host of "Duck Calls"
Anaheim Ducks Postgame Radio Show
and Hockeytalk Audio Features
Josh
Brewster founded the Western Hockey Network in 2000, producing
all-hockey radio programming as well as print media, covering the
world's greatest game from Southern California.
Brewster is the host of "Duck Calls," the
Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks' postgame radio show after road games on AM830 (KLAA) in
SoCal. Josh is also the producer of the groundbreaking web radio series,
"Hockeytalk Audio Features," available for listening at
www.hockeytalk.biz. He also appears regularly on
XM Satellite Radio. On November 3, 2007, he filled in as
color commentator on the Ducks' radio broadcast
from Phoenix, calling the game with Steve Carroll.
Josh's first hockey program on CRN Digital
Talk, 'Power Play' aired from 2003-04. Brewster also appeared on WNSA FM
in Buffalo as an NHL commentator from 2002-04.
His hockey writing has been featured in The
Hockey News and Hockey Digest. A 20-plus year veteran radio and
voiceover personality, Josh has been heard narrating television series
for Animal Planet and USA Network, as well as countlesss radio and TV
commercials across America.
He lives with his wife, Catherine, and his
sons, Brent and Shane, in Los Angeles.
Gann Matsuda
covers the
LA Kings for Hockeytalk. Matsuda is a Los Angeles native and has followed the Los Angeles Kings
since 1973. His days covering the Kings began in the mid-80's when he wrote game
stories and news and notes pieces on various online services (GEnie, National
Videotex Network and eWorld), before moving to e-mail lists and the World Wide
Web. He has been the news editor for the Online Kingdom (http://www.kingshockey.com)
since 1995, and has also covered professional hockey players of Japanese descent
for the Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles Japanese Daily News) since 2001.
Jason
Reed currently covers
the NHL for Hockeytalk, also contributing a regular column,
J.R.’s Rink Rants, to Hockeytalk.biz.
Jason is also a frequent guest on Duck Calls.
As a freelance writer and broadcaster Jason has
written extensively for more than 30 newspapers and magazines across the
US, Canada and Europe. He is currently the LA Kings blogger for THN.com,
the website of The Hockey News,. He also has two new radio shows, Crank
It Up, which airs live on Friday at noon on KLBC and From The Cheap
Seats, a sports show which airs Tuesday at 10:05 AM Pacific. Both shows
are on KLBC in Long Beach, CA.
His work has been seen regularly in Face Off
magazine in Europe and he has also written several pieces for the Mighty
Ducks of Anaheim’s game program, Mighty Ducks Digest. He has a sports blog/podcast called From The Cheap
Seats (www.fromthecheapseats.net)
and his podcasted KLBC shows are there as well.
 Ivo
Jaschick
Writer: European Correspondent. Ivo has written the longest-running
Hockeytalk column, Eye on Europe, since 2004. Ivo also writes for Eishockey magazine. He lives in Germany, where he was born and bred. |
 Karen
Francis covers the Anaheim Ducks for Hockeytalk and
also blogs at MVN.com. Karen is married with three sons. In
addition to being a diehard hockey fan and hockey card
collector. She has also appeared on Duck Calls. |
 Leon
Rafner is a postgame reporter for Hockeytalk
and contributes audio to this site. He has also appeared
on Duck Calls. An ESPN Stats Reporter, Leon has worked as
a stringer for other wire services including Sports Ticker
and Sports Network, covering the Ducks. A lifelong hockey fan
and player, Mr. Rafner grew up a Ranger fan and has followed the
Ducks from the start of the franchise in '93, through the first
playoff victories over Phoenix, and finally to the Cup.
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 Graig Woodburn
covers the NHL for the Press-Enterprise
in Riverside, California while also contributing to ESPN.com and The
Sporting News hockey yearbook. He is originally from Massachusetts and
began covering pro hockey in the Washington D.C. area in the early 1980's.
Woodburn is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and
admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts. Greg is a
regular guest on Duck Calls. |
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 Kevin
Hopson covers the USA Hockey National Development Program,
the Buffalo Sabres and the NHL for Hockeytalk.
He was born in the Buffalo area and moved to Virginia early on. He
currently acts as a Mid-Atlantic scout for McKeen's Hockey Prospects,
covering everything from youth hockey players to NHL players.
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 Dave Joseph
does sports updates on ESPN Radio 710 in Los
Angeles and is the former rinkside reporter for Los Angeles Kings radio
broadcasts along the Kings radio network. Dave has also appeared on Duck
Calls. He is a graduate of Hofstra
University on Long Island, New York, where he played hockey for four
years. Dave is originally from Michigan's Upper Peninsula and grew up
playing junior hockey in southern Ontario and parts of the Midwest.
Visit Dave at www.davejoseph.tv
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