Ducks Broadcaster Steve Carroll Announces Retirement at End of 2025-26 Season
Ducks broadcaster Steve Carroll has introduced his retirement at the conclusion of the 2025-26 season. Carroll might be within the sales space to name the membership’s closing regular-season dwelling sport on Sunday, April 12. He will retire after a 50-year profession as a play-by-play announcer, together with the final 27 seasons because the audio play-by-play voice of the Ducks, to give attention to his well being.
“Steve Carroll has been an iconic voice of our franchise for decades, calling countless memorable moments and a Stanley Cup championship that will forever be part of our team’s history,” stated Ducks Club President Aaron Teats. “Steve’s voice and calls captured the excitement, drama and emotion of our games in a way that connected generations of fans. Steve has represented our organization with tremendous class, professionalism and passion for nearly 30 years. We are deeply grateful for his extraordinary commitment to the Ducks and the impact he has made on us and our community of fans. We wish Steve and his family well in retirement.”
Inducted into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame on Jan. 13, 2026, Carroll known as his 2,000th regular-season sport with the Ducks this season Dec. 16, 2025 at Columbus. Carroll joined the Ducks in 1999 and has been a defining voice of hockey in Southern California for elements of 4 a long time.
“It’s been an honor to call games for the Anaheim Ducks and be a part of the franchise for so many years,” Carroll stated. “I am grateful to the Samueli family and the entire staff for their friendship, and the incredible fans for all their support over the years.”
In addition to calling the membership’s 2007 championship, Carroll voiced the memorable run to Game 7 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Final and three further Western Conference Finals appearances in 2005, 2015 and 2017. Altogether, Carrol has known as 2,165 NHL video games for the Ducks, together with 2,018 common season and 147 Stanley Cup Playoff video games.
After touchdown his first play-by-play job as voice of the Mineral Area Junior College Men’s Basketball Team (Flat River, Missouri) in 1976, Carroll has gone on to broadcast in a number of sports activities at each the collegiate {and professional} ranges. The lengthy checklist of baseball groups consists of the Los Angeles Angels, the Nashville Sounds (Triple-A), Huntsville Stars (Double-A) and Iowa Cubs (Triple-A). He has been employed in 9 states and has known as motion in each state with the exception of Alaska and Idaho. At one level within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, Carroll was in Nashville broadcasting for 5 groups in three sports activities whereas freelancing for a newspaper. His work included overlaying the Nashville Knights of the ECHL and Vanderbilt University basketball and soccer (radio and tv).
Carroll joined the Ducks after spending the earlier two seasons dealing with the radio play-by-play duties for the New Orleans Brass of the ECHL, together with serving within the communications, media relations and company gross sales departments. He additionally known as video games for the New Orleans Zephyrs, a Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros, from 1996-98. In addition, he dealt with play-by-play for the New Orleans Storm skilled soccer crew.
Carroll served because the radio play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia Flyers for the 1995-96 season. He additionally known as motion for the New Haven Nighthawks of the AHL through the 1985-86 season and the Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) from 1981-85.
A local of St. Louis, Mo., Carroll was additionally a contributor to AnaheimDucks.com, the membership’s official crew web site. On behalf of the crew, he has served as an emcee at quite a few charity occasions through the common season and in the summertime months.
