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Paul Steigerwald is a sportscaster who has been working in the industry since the early 1980s. He is best known for his work as a play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also worked as a color commentator for the NHL on Fox and as a studio host for the NHL Network. Steigerwald was born on August 6, 1954 in Scott Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a degree in communications. Steigerwald began his broadcasting career in 1981, working as a sports anchor for WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. He then moved to the Penguins in 1983, where he served as the team's play-by-play announcer for the next 25 years. During this time, he also worked as a color commentator for the NHL on Fox and as a studio host for the NHL Network. In 2008, Steigerwald left the Penguins to become the play-by-play announcer for the Columbus Blue Jackets. He held this position until 2011, when he returned to the Penguins. He currently serves as the team's play-by-play announcer. As of 2021, Paul Steigerwald's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Timeline

On 16 May 2017, Root Sports and the Pittsburgh Penguins announced that, starting in the 2017-18 hockey season, Steigerwald would transition to the Penguins' front office in a new role with the communications and marketing department. Steve Mears, an NHL Network broadcaster and former radio play-by-play voice of the New York Islanders, replaced Paul Steigerwald as the network's TV play-by-play broadcaster for Penguins games.

The Penguins hired Steigerwald as their marketing director at age 25, and he became their radio color analyst in 1985. FSN Pittsburgh (now AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh) hired him on 29 June 2006, as its TV play-by-play announcer after it declined to renew the contract of fellow Penguins broadcaster Mike Lange, who was later hired by the team exclusively as its radio play-by-play announcer. On 18 August 2011, Steigerwald and color analyst Bob Errey were re-signed by Root Sports to multi-year contracts. During a Penguins/Capitals game on 19 March 2013; two fans were spotted with a large picture of Steigerwald on a stick. Bob Errey referred to the prop as "Steigy on a Stick," which became an instant viral hit with Penguins fans.

Steigerwald was the radio play-by-play announcer for the Altoona Curve, the AA affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, from 2005 to 2007.

Steigerwald became a hockey fan growing up in Pittsburgh's South Hills. One of his neighbors was Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jack Riley, who would provide tickets for the poorly attended games. Steigerwald developed an interest in hockey and played at the club level while attending Kent State University. After graduating, Steigerwald would start his broadcast career with the Johnstown Red Wings of the Eastern Hockey League. WJNL, the local radio affiliate of the Johnstown Red Wings paid Steigerwald $110 a week to provide commentary for all 70 games that season. With a 24-45-1 and a failing economy within the Johnstown area, the Johnstown Red Wings ceased operations in 1980. The Eastern Hockey League later folded the following year.

Paul Steigerwald (born 6 August 1954) is an American sportscaster, who through the 2016-17 NHL hockey season worked as the Pittsburgh Penguins' primary television announcer on Root Sports Pittsburgh (now AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh).