Deborah Kaufman Placey (born March 17, 1966) is an American sportscaster who currently co-hosts the television program, NHL Live, with EJ Hradek on the NHL Network, as well as The BlackBerry All-Access Pregame show on NHL.com. On September 6, 2018, MSG Network announced Placey was leaving the regional sports network to take a new on-air position with the NHL Network.

Placey had previously served as a news anchor/reporter for the New Jersey Devils' televised games on MSG Plus and the MSG Network. Placey joined the New Jersey Devils in 2011 after 10 seasons as pre-game and intermission host for New York Islanders telecasts. Placey's earlier TV anchor work includes stops at WSIL-TV in Carterville, Illinois, KWWL-TV in Waterloo, Iowa, WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island and WSVN-TV in Miami, Florida.

Prior to joining MSG in the mid-1990s, Placey regularly appeared on ESPN2 at the time of ESPN2's infancy (October 1993) through mid-1995. From 2004 through 2005, Placey worked as a fill-in weekend sports anchor and reporter for WNBC-TV, the flagship NBC affiliate.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Deb Placey is married to Edward Placey, a senior coordinating producer at ESPN. The Placeys have two daughters, Madeline and Caroline, and a beagle named Lucky.

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External links

• MSG biography
• Deb Placey's Twitter Account

Stanley Cup Finals

• 2006 (Games 1–2)
• 2007 (Games 1–2)
• 2008 (Games 1–2)
• 2009 (Games 3–4)
• 2010 (Games 3–4)
• 2011 (Games 3–4)

All-Star Game

• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2011

NHL Entry Draft

• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011

Heritage Cl*ic

• 2011