Sports host Ron MacLean will be the face of Hockey Night in Canada for at least another seven years.

MacLean and CBC agreed Monday to a new contract that extends through the 2013-2014 season. This coincides with the television deal reached by the CBC and the NHL in March.

In a statement, the executive director of CBC Sports, Scott Moore, said MacLean is “the best in the business and has played an integral role in building CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada into the most influential and popular sports brand in Canada.”

MacLean joined CBC in 1986, hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs’ telecast on HNIC. He became the full-time national host the next year.

An eight-time Gemini Award winner, he has also hosted CBC’s coverage of the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games, world track and field championships and Calgary Stampede.

He is nominated for another Gemini this year in the category of Best Host or Interviewer in a Sports Program or Sportscast for HNIC.

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