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The New England Hockey Journal Radio Show started in 1997 and is the longest-running Saturday morning sports talk show in the Boston market. It most recently aired on ESPN 890-AM Boston and 1400-AM Lowell/Lawrence. It also streams off of www.hockeyjournal.com, bringing in listeners from all over the United States and Canada. Listeners tune in to the show for comprehensive coverage of the New England hockey scene as they listen to “hockey drive time” on their way to or from an arena, or prepare for the Bruins game that day. Geared toward the hard-core followers of the sport, the show strives to inform its audience and present an expert point of view, delivering excellent value to listeners and advertisers.

The Hosts

Kevin Paul Dupont

Kevin Paul Dupont, New England Hockey Journal columnist and co-host of the NEHJ Radio Show, has covered the NHL for more than 30 years, dating back to his days as a Boston Herald American beat reporter assigned to Don Cherry’s “Lunch Pail” Boston Bruins in the late 1970s.

A 2002 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee for his work in print journalism, Dupont has spent his entire newspaper career in Boston except for 1983-85, when he covered the Rangers, Islanders and Devils for the New York Times. In September 1985, he rejoined the sports staff of the Boston Globe, where he had begun working in 1973 as a copy boy, and today he is a senior member of the sports staff, covering the Bruins and the NHL. His work appears almost daily in the Globe and on the paper’s website, boston.com.

Along with reporting hockey, Dupont has covered numerous other sports for the Globe, including 10 Olympic Games (both winter and summer).

Since 1998, Dupont also has been a regular contributor to msnbc.com, writing hockey-related columns and filling the role of “Ask the Expert” for the website’s NHL page. He also regularly appears on television and radio programs throughout the United States and Canada.

Dupont joined the NEHJ staff in 2003, writing his monthly “KPD” column and co-hosting the Saturday morning radio talk show with Mick Colageo.

Born in Springfield, Mass., in 1953, Dupont grew up in Bedford, Mass., graduated from the town’s public high school in 1971, and earned his B.S. in journalism at Boston University’s School of Public Communications in 1975. He and his wife, Brenda, have a son, Gates, and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Brock, who is charge of all operations -- hockey and otherwise -- at their home in the Boston suburbs.

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Mick Colageo

Mick Colageo grew up in East Walpole, Mass., a child of the '60s and a fan of all four Boston teams, including the Bruins. He was introduced to them by Fred Cusick’s weekly Bruins highlights show on Channel 56, and playing hockey was a pastime on neighborhood driveways and on Coburn’s Pond. Four Seasons Arena, only a mile away, was a magnet for Colageo, who sat behind the penalty box and hated to miss a Bay State League triple-bill, especially if Norwood’s Richie Hebner, Needham’s Robbie Ftorek or Walpole’s Paul “Peewee” Giandimenico were playing. Colageo attended his first Bruins game on Jan. 25, 1968, when Bobby Orr still had a crew cut and Phil Esposito had just come to town in the greatest trade of all time.

The remnants of a youth swallowed up in the Bruins’ rise from Original Six doormats to the daily talk of high school classrooms include old jerseys and boxes filled with programs, yearbooks, ticket stubs and countless drawings of Boston Garden, Fenway Park, the Boston skyline and game tickets.

When the Bruins’ glory days were over, Colageo’s hockey passion never waned, and he decided to pursue a career as a play-by-play radio announcer. He has called high school basketball, football and hockey games and college basketball games, was a disc jockey and delivered news reports.

In Colageo’s 23-year media journey, he has contributed to 16 newspapers, seven magazines, nine radio stations, two radio networks and two television stations. Success as a writer supplanted play-by-play aspirations and ultimately led to his association with Seamans Media, for which he has co-hosted the New England Hockey Journal Radio Show since 2002. Colageo’s articles have been recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New England Press Association, the Professional Hockey Writers Association and USA Tennis New England. A former professional tennis umpire, Colageo also has been a volunteer hockey coach and a volunteer tennis umpire for Special Olympics.

Since 1995, Colageo has been covering the Bruins for The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass., where he is a staff writer for the South Coast-based newspaper.