Michel Lacroix

Michel Lacroix (born 1953/54) is a Canadian sportscaster. He is the primary announcer for golf coverage on RDS. Over the years, he has covered the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour) and the LPGA Tour. He is also the public address announcer for Montreal Canadiens games at the Bell Centre.

A native of Laval,

His big break came in 1976, when he announced track and field events at the Olympic Games. As he put it years later, "they told me, 'Well, you probably have an audience of 1.2 billion people,' and you just go, 'OK!'" Longtime Canadiens PA announcer Claude Mouton was impressed by Lacroix' Olympic work, and asked him if he was willing to fill in as PA announcer at the Montreal Forum when needed. When Mouton was promoted to media coordinator in 1977, he asked Lacroix to replace him as PA announcer. Lacroix held the job until 1983, and was on hand for three consecutive Stanley Cup victories. He then returned to full-time reporting for CKAC, but stood in for Mouton from time to time during the second half of the 1980s. When Mouton died of cancer in March 1993, Lacroix was named his replacement, announcing the Canadiens' last Stanley Cup run to date, in 1993.