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Glenn Healy (born August 23 1962 in Pickering, Ontario, Canada) is director of player affairs for the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA). He also serves as a non-voting member on the National Hockey League (NHL) Competition Committee, overseeing the NHLPA's interests regarding rule and equipment issues and player safety matters.

Healey is also a television sports commentator and former ice hockey goaltender who played for 15 years in the National Hockey League. Prior to that, he was a member of the Western Michigan University hockey team, and 1985 graduate of the school. During his career, Healy played for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. During the 1993 season, he helped lead an up-start New York Islander team to the Wales Conference Finals, shocking the two-time defending Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins along the way. In the 1993 off-season, the Islanders neglected to renew his contract. Healy then signed with the rival Rangers, where he was a part of their Stanley Cup winning team, though he did not appear in a playoff game. After his playing career he served as hockey colour commentator and analyst, first for the CBC and then for TSN. He currently also serves as the secondary colour commentator for the NHL on TSN and as an ice-level analyst for TSN's regional Toronto Maple Leafs telecasts.

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During the 1995–96 season, Healey won both the Rangers Good Guy Award and the Rangers Fan Club Ceil Saidel Award. At the time he won these awards, he was the Rangers' number-one goalie while Mike Richter was injured.

Healy invented the "Loch Ness Monster" hockey analysis segment, in which where he picks an "invisible" player of the game being broadcast; usually a player whose performance has been above standard but was very subtle (such as constantly taking away passing lanes, or finishing checks). Bagpipes can be heard in the background and the chosen player is dubbed "tonight's Nessie". The segment's title is a parody of fellow analyst Pierre McGuire's "Monster" segment, which focusses on a player's whose contributions have been particularly effective.

Healy is also musical, playing the bagpipes in several bands around the Toronto area. He frequently plays the Warrior's Day Parade on the first Saturday of the CNE.

Glenn Healy was the colour analyst for the 2007 Casino Rama Curling Skins Game finals on TSN