Lloyd Pettit

Lloyd Pettit, announcer for the Chicago Blackhawks and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, died Tuesday, Nov. 11, in Milwaukee. He was 76. Pettit, former co-owner of the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League, started as an analyst on Blackhawks TV broadcasts in 1961. Two years later he began doing play-by-play, a job he held through the 1974-75 season. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1966, he won an Emmy from the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his coverage of the team’s away games that season. Pettit is survived by four children.