Meet the show hosts
Grind Time With Darren McCarty is a weekly podcast hosted by four-time Stanley Cup Champion Darren McCarty. Learn more about the show and the hosts.
Darren McCarty
Hockey
Darren McCarty is a four-time Stanley Cup Champion with the Detroit Red Wings.
Author
In 2013, Darren released his autobiography My Last Fight: The True Story of a Hockey Rock Star.
Rockstar
In the early-to-mid 2000’s Darren was the founder and frontman for the Detroit-based rock band Grinder. Darren wrote, recorded and toured with band for several years.
Perry Vellucci
Perry and the entire Vellucci family are Detroit hockey royalty. Perry is an active referee in the Metro Detroit area youth and amateur hockey scene as well as being the official referee for the Detroit Red Wings Alumni.
Perry and Darren have been close friends for decades. They’ve been through good times and bad together. Perry brings a very special perspective to all things D-Mac and anything related to hockey and the Red Wings.
Nick Antonucci
Nick Antonucci is the business manager for Grind Time with Darren McCarty. Nick designs and executes business plans and strategies to promote and attain the show’s goals.
After spending 4 years in the United States Army, Nick moved to Southern California and started his business development career. 15 years later, Nick is the Business Development Manager for Cygnus Systems Inc.
When he’s not diligently working his day or growing Grind Time, he enjoys being beaten down mentally and physically by his children.
Video Gallery
Stanley Cup Game Winning Goal 1997
My Last Fight
Michigan International Speedway
About GRINDTIME.
Grind Time with Darren McCarty is exactly that. This is about Darren’s world. The good, the bad, and the ugly. We have interviews with people Mac has come across over the years, things Mac is interested in and people he knows that he thinks you should know too. If it’s hockey season, we’re probably talking hockey, but we also discuss movies, music, golf, NASCAR, life’s ups, and it’s downs, because Mac has lived them all.