Billy Jaffe

Islanders Television Analyst

Billy Jaffe joined the MSG Plus (formerly FSNY) broadcast team as a television analyst for the New York Islanders in 2006. Jaffe currently shares the broadcast booth with longtime Islanders play-by-play man Howie Rose.

In 2004-2005, Jaffe served as the lead analyst for College Sports Television Network's (CSTV) "Friday Night Hockey" game of the week. He joined the AHL's Chicago Wolves television broadcasts for the Calder Cup playoffs working as the studio host and rinkside reporter. Jaffe also served as a speaker for the Atlanta Hawks Read to Achieve program that reached 122 schools and 61,000 students in the greater Atlanta area, and continued as an instructor in various Atlanta Thrashers Hockey School programs.

Prior to joining the Islanders broadcast team, Jaffe served as analyst for the Atlanta Thrashers. Aside from his radio/TV work with the Thrashers, which includes two Southern Regional Emmy Awards, Jaffe re-joined the Wolves following the Thrashers 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons as their color commentator for the team's playoff broadcasts. On Oct. 6, 2001, Jaffe served as the color commentator for MSG Plus' Emmy Award-winning broadcast of the Cold War game between the University of Michigan and Michigan State, which was played before the largest crowd ever to witness a hockey game (74,554) at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Mich. Most recently in 2008, Jaffe was nominated for and won his first New York Emmy for "On-Camera Talent: Sports Analyst" for his work with the New York Islanders on MSG Plus.

Jaffe joined the Thrashers in September 2000 after spending the 1999-2000 season as the radio and television analyst for the Wolves. In addition, he was the lead analyst for Fox Sports Detroit's "Central Collegiate Hockey Association Game of the Week." He began his broadcasting career in 1998 providing analysis on Chicago Blackhawks radio broadcasts for the pre and post-game shows on WMAQ-670-AM's "Hawk Talk," as well as hosting ChicagoLand Television's weekly hockey show "Power Play" from 1998-2000.

Jaffe served as team captain on the silver medal-winning Team USA squad at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel in 1997. He played collegiate hockey for the University of Michigan from 1987-89, and then worked as an on-ice official for the CCHA from 1989-1993.

Jaffe grew up in Chicago and currently resides in Buckhead with his wife Victoria.