Dave Randorf

Dave Randorf (born July 31, 1967) is a Canadian sportscaster working for Sportsnet. He is best known for his work at TSN hosting the network's Canadian Football League studio show as well as TSN's and CTV's coverage of figure skating. He also did play-by-play for the NHL on TSN (along with the regional coverage of the Montreal Canadiens), World Hockey Championship, and the National Lacrosse League on TSN.

Biography
Randorf graduated from Seaquam Secondary located in the Sunshine Hills neighbourhood of North Delta, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. Randorf joined TSN in 1985 as an editorial assistant during his first year as a Radio and Television Arts student at Ryerson University. Randorf worked in the TSN newsroom until 1989, when he returned to Vancouver. He joined Sports Page, nightly sports show on CKVU-TV as a reporter and anchor. While in Vancouver he also worked for radio station CKNW (AM), working on Vancouver Canucks radio broadcasts as a reporter and, later, game host. He also started hosting his own call-in show on the radio station in 1995.

Also in 1995, Randorf left CKVU and returned to TSN as a Vancouver correspondent and played for the Frostbacks hockey club. In 1997, became the full-time co-anchor of TSN's Pacific Prime edition of Sportsdesk (now SportsCentre), from TSN's Vancouver studios.

Randorf's duties at TSN quickly expanded as he covered numerous events, including U.S. Open golf, the Grey Cup, the Super Bowl, men's and women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Memorial Cup, Pan Am Games, and Canada Games. He has also hosted TSN's coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2010 Winter Olympics.

Randorf was part of TSN's CFL crew from 1999 to 2013, calling the play-by-play action in 1999 and 2000 and hosting from 2001 until 2013. In addition, he was the play-by-play commentator for the Montreal Canadiens regional games from 2011 to 2014.

Working for Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, Randorf co-hosted the CTV Olympic Morning block during the 2012 Summer Olympics

On November 26, 2013, Rogers Media, the owners of the competing network Sportsnet, reached a 12-year deal to become the national rightsholder of the NHL worth $5.2 billion. In June 2014, Randorf officially joined Rogers to become the one of the leading voices of their national coverage along with the revamped Hockey Night in Canada, ending his 17-year career at TSN. He has called two NHL All-Star Games.

In 2019, after the departure of Paul Romanuk, Randorf was assigned to his first NHL Conference Final, the 2019 Western Conference Finals between the San Jose Sharks and the St. Louis Blues.

Dave Randorf is the father of three children, Kyle Randorf, Blake Randorf, and Trevor Randorf. Trevor Randorf is currently studying communications at Wilfrid Laurier University while guiding his intramurals hockey team, "The Hoods" as the league-leading scorer in the "B" division. Blake Randorf is currently studying Political Science at the University of Guelph while leading his intramurals team in penalties. Both twins were integral pieces of the 2001 "A" Markham Islanders for years.

Nominations
Randorf was rewarded for his outstanding contribution to the world of sports with a 2000 Gemini Award nomination as Best Sports Broadcaster.