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BILL CLEMENT Color Analyst
Clement also returns as a color commentator this season. He was the TV color analyst for the Flyers
from 1989-1992 and rejoined the club’s broadcast team in 2007. A member of both of the Flyers’
Stanley Cup championship teams, Clement was also a two-time NHL all-star over his 11-year NHL
career with the Flyers, the Washington Capitals and the Flames, both in Atlanta and Calgary.
Clement was the lead color analyst for ESPN’s National Hockey Night broadcasts for 15 years. He
has also been a studio host for NBC and VERSUS, and has worked as a broadcaster at five Olympic
Games. His other broadcast credits include ABC and TNT in the US and CTV, CBC, Rogers Sportsnet
and Sirius-XM Radio in Canada.
In addition to his hockey broadcasting career, Clement is also a critically acclaimed speaker, actor
and entrepreneur. He has worked on the ABC daytime drama All My Children and done more than
300 television ads for clients such as Chevrolet, Bud Light and Deepwoods Off. He has also provided
one of the commentator voices on the EA Sports NHL video games.
Tim Saunders Play-By-Play Announcer
Tim Saunders enters his 15th season as the play-by-play announcer for Flyers radio. He also served
as the television play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia Phantoms for eight seasons.
Saunders joined the Flyers in 1997 after spending two seasons as the play-by-play broadcaster and
the Director of Broadcasting for the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League. In
that role, Saunders was responsible for all facets of the team’s radio and television involvement,
including the simulcasts of the Lumberjacks’ 20-game television package on Fox Sports Pittsburgh
and SportsChannel of Ohio.
A native of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Saunders began his hockey career as the cable television voice
of the Muskegon Fury of the Colonial Hockey League in 1992-93. He then spent two seasons as a
broadcaster for the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League (1993-94 & 1994-95) before moving
to Cleveland. Prior to his hockey work, Saunders was the sports director at WOOD Radio in Grand
Rapids, Michigan for 10 years.
Tim and his wife, Margie, have two children-daughter Katie and son Steven-and reside in Somerdale,
New Jersey.
Chris Therien Color Analyst
Chris Therien enters his fifth season as the color analyst for Flyers radio. Prior to his current
position, he served as an analyst on Comcast SportsNet’s Post-Game Live show, which follows
Flyers games. In addition, Therien was a part-time member of SportsRadio 94 WIP’s Morning
Show, as well as the Glen Macnow Show.
Therien played 11 seasons for the Flyers during two different stints (1994-95 to 2003-04 & 2005-
06), recording 29 goals and 130 assists for 159 points and adding 583 penalty minutes in 753
regular season games. He also played 11 games for the Dallas Stars during the 2003-04 season.
Therien’s 753 regular season games as a Flyer are the most for a Flyers defenseman and are
fourth overall on the team’s All-Time List. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic Team that
won the Silver Medal at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Prior to turning
professional, he attended Providence College for three years before joining the Canadian
National Team after his junior year at Providence. Therien was drafted by the Flyers in the third
round (47th overall) of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft.
In 2004, Therien and former Flyer John LeClair created LeClair Therien Lines, a shipping and logistics company, which is run and
operated in the Delaware Valley. He is actively involved with the Trillium Gift of Life Foundation in Canada, which supports organ
donation, and is involved with the ALS Hope Foundation and various other charity endeavors. Therien resides in Marlton, New
Jersey, with his wife, Diana, and their four children-daughters Isabella, Ava and Alexa and son Christopher.
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