List of current National Hockey League broadcasters

The following is a list of current (entering 2023–24 NHL season) National Hockey League broadcasters. With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games, and all seven games of the Stanley Cup Finals. Games are also shown on multiple regional sports networks in both countries.

Regional broadcasters

The following is a list of local TV and radio broadcasters for each individual team. As a result of Rogers Communications and Bell Canada having both an ownership stake in the Toronto Maple Leafs, that team's regional English language TV broadcasts are split between Rogers' Sportsnet Ontario and Bell's TSN4, and radio coverage is split between Sportsnet 590 and TSN 1050. The Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, Dallas Stars and Los Angeles Kings do television/radio simulcasts. Both the Kings and the New Jersey Devils lack flagship terrestrial radio stations, and have instead partnered with the Internet radio platforms iHeartRadio and Audacy, respectively; the San Jose Sharks likewise abandoned terrestrial radio, instead keeping all audio broadcasts exclusive to its own online platforms. Both the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators each have local English and French language broadcasts to serve their large anglophone and francophone fan bases. The Florida Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, and Vegas Golden Knights have all added Spanish language broadcasts to serve their Hispanic fan bases. Not all teams televise their preseason games.

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  TV/radio simulcasts

Eastern Conference

Team	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Host/Ice level reporter(s)	Flagship stations
Boston	Jack Edwards (most games) Alex Faust (select games)	Andy Brickley	Sophia Jurksztowicz Andrew Raycroft Adam Pellerin	NESN^[1]
	Judd Sirott	Bob Beers		The Sports Hub^[1] Rock 92.9 (during conflicts with Patriots games or road games in conflict with Celtics home games)
Buffalo	Dan Dunleavy	Rob Ray Martin Biron Mike Robitaille		MSG Western New York/Bell TV^[2]
				WGR 550^[2]
Carolina	Mike Maniscalco	Tripp Tracy	Hanna Yates	Bally Sports South^[3]
				99.9 The Fan^[3]
Columbus	TBA	Jody Shelley (most games) Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre (select games)	Dave Maetzold	Bally Sports Ohio^[4]
	Bob McElligott (most games) Dylan Tyrer (select games)	Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre (select national TV games)		97.1 The Fan^[5]
Detroit	Ken Daniels	Mickey Redmond (home games and select away games) Chris Osgood (select away games) Larry Murphy (select away games)	Trevor Thompson	Bally Sports Detroit^[6]
	Ken Kal (most games) Bob Kaser (select games)	Paul Woods		97.1 The Ticket^[7]
Florida	Steve Goldstein	Randy Moller	Jessica Blaylock Katie Engleson	Bally Sports Florida^[8]
	Doug Plagens	Bill Lindsay (home games only)		560 Sports Radio Libre 790 (English Radio)
	Arley Londoño			990 ESPN Deportes (Spanish Radio)
Montreal	Bryan Mudryk (primary) Victor Findlay (when Bryan Mudryk is on IIHF or curling assignments)	Frank Corrado (select games) Mike Johnson (select games) Craig Button (select games)^[9]	Kenzie Lalonde (primary) Kelly Grieg (when Kenzie Lalonde is on assignment during IIHF tournaments)	TSN2 (English Regional)
	Victor Findlay (primary) Sean Campbell (select games)	J. P. O'Connor (primary) Jon Goyens (select games)		TSN 690 (English Radio)
	Pierre Houde	Marc Denis		RDS (French Regional)^[10]
	Martin McGuire	Danny Dubé		98.5 FM (French Radio)
New Jersey	Bill Spaulding	Ken Daneyko Bryce Salvador (rinkside on all home games)		MSG Sportsnet (primary) MSG Network (during Knicks and Rangers off-days)^[11]
	Matt Loughlin	Chico Resch		Devils Hockey Network Radio (primary) accessed via NewJerseyDevils.com WFAN Sports Radio (select games)
New York Islanders	Brendan Burke (most games) Alan Fuehring (select games during Burke's national assignments)	Butch Goring (most games) Thomas Hickey (select games)	Shannon Hogan	MSG Sportsnet (primary)^[12] MSG 2 (during conflicts with Devils Broadcasts) MSG Network (during Knicks, Rangers, and Devils off-days)
	Chris King	Greg Picker		ESPN 1050 AM ESPN 98.7 FM (during conflicts with either Knicks or Rangers broadcasts) WRHU (during conflicts with both Knicks and Rangers broadcasts)^[13]
New York Rangers	Sam Rosen (primary) John Giannone (select games during Rosen's absences) Kenny Albert (select games during Rosen's absences)	Joe Micheletti (primary) Dave Maloney (select games)	Michelle Gingras	MSG Network (primary) MSG Sportsnet (during conflicts with Knicks broadcasts) MSG 2 (during conflicts with Knicks and Devils Broadcasts)^[14]
	Kenny Albert (primary) Don La Greca (select games during Albert's NFL on Fox, TNT, Knicks on MSG TV assignments) Ed Cohen (select games during Albert's NFL on Fox, TNT, Knicks on MSG TV assignments) Sam Rosen (during select national broadcasts) Alex Faust (select games)	Dave Maloney (primary) Pete Stemkowski (select games)		ESPN 98.7 FM ESPN 1050 AM (during conflicts with Knicks broadcasts)
Ottawa	Gord Miller (primary) Jon Abbott (when Miller is unavailable)	Jamie McLennan (primary) Mike Johnson (select games) Dave Poulin (select games)^[15]		TSN5 (English Regional)
	Michel Y. Lacroix	Norman Flynn		RDS RDS2 (French Regional)
	Dean Brown	Gord Wilson		TSN 1200 (English Radio)
	Nicolas St. Pierre	Alain Sanscartier		94.5 Unique FM (French Radio)
Philadelphia	Jim Jackson	Brian Boucher (primary) Scott Hartnell (select games during Boucher's NHL on TNT assignments) Al Morganti (select games during Boucher's NHL on TNT assignments)	Ashlyn Sullivan	NBC Sports Philadelphia^[16]
	Tim Saunders	Todd Fedoruk		97.5 The Fanatic 93.3 WMMR
Pittsburgh	Josh Getzoff	Colby Armstrong (select games) Mike Rupp (select games) Phil Bourque (select games)	Hailey Hunter (select games) Dan Potash (select games)	SportsNet Pittsburgh^[17]
	Steve Mears	Phil Bourque (most games) Michelle Crechiolo (select games)		The X at 105.9^[17]
Tampa Bay	Dave Randorf	Brian Engblom	Paul Kennedy Gabby Shirley	Bally Sports Sun^[18]
	Dave Mishkin	Phil Esposito (home games only) Bobby Taylor (away games only)		102.5 The Bone^[19]
Toronto	Gord Miller	Mike Johnson		TSN4
	Chris Cuthbert	Craig Simpson	Shawn McKenzie	Sportsnet Ontario
	Joe Bowen	Jim Ralph		Sportsnet 590 TSN 1050
Washington	Joe Beninati	Craig Laughlin Alan May (rinkside on all home games)	Al Koken	Monumental Sports Network^[20]
	John Walton (primary) Zack Fisch (select games) Grady Whittenburg (select games)	Ken Sabourin		WFED 1500 106.7 The Fan (Selected Games Only)

Western Conference

Team	Play-by-play	Color commentators	Host/Ice level reporter(s)	Flagship Stations
Anaheim	John Ahlers	Brian Hayward (primary) Guy Hebert (select games)	Alyson Lozoff	Bally Sports SoCal (most games) Bally Sports West (some games) KCOP (during conflicts with Kings, Clippers and Angels broadcasts)^[21]
	Steve Carroll	Emerson Etem		Ducks Stream
Calgary	Rick Ball	Kelly Hrudey (primary) Greg Millen (during Hrudey's Hockey Night in Canada assignments)	Ryan Leslie	Sportsnet West Sportsnet Flames (during conflicts with Oilers broadcasts or other Sportsnet programming)^[22]
	Derek Wills	Meaghan Mikkelson	Pat Steinberg	Sportsnet 960
Chicago	Chris Vosters	Darren Pang (primary) Caley Chelios (select games during Pang's NHL on TNT assignments) Troy Murray (select games during Pang's NHL on TNT assignments) Stu Grimson (select games during Pang's NHL on TNT assignments)		NBC Sports Chicago^[23]
	John Wiedeman	Troy Murray (primary) Joe Brand (select games)		WGN Radio (English Radio)
	Miguel Esparza	Jorge Moreno		Univision Deportes 1200 AM (Spanish Radio)
Colorado	Marc Moser	Mark Rycroft	Katie Gaus Rachel Richlinski	Altitude Sports^[24]
	Conor McGahey	Mark Rycroft (national/non-televised games)		Altitude Sports 92.5 FM^[25] Altitude Sports AM 950^[25]
Dallas	Josh Bogorad	Daryl Reaugh (primary) Brent Severyn (select games)	Brien Rea	Bally Sports Southwest^[26]
				The Ticket^[26]
Edmonton	Jack Michaels	Louie DeBrusk (primary) Jamal Mayers (select games)	Gene Principe	Sportsnet West Sportsnet Oilers (during conflicts with Flames broadcasts or other Sportsnet programming)^[27]
	Cam Moon (when Michaels work regional or select national TV games) Jack Michaels (most national TV games)	Bob Stauffer		630 CHED
Los Angeles	Nick Nickson (primary) Josh Schaefer (select games)	Jim Fox Daryl Evans	Carrlyn Bathe	Bally Sports West (primary) KCAL-TV (6 games) Bally Sports SoCal (overflow)^[28]
				iHeartRadio app
Minnesota	Anthony LaPanta	Wes Walz (select games) Ryan Carter (select games) Lou Nanne (select games)	Kevin Gorg	Bally Sports North^[29]
	Joe O'Donnell (primary) Bob Kurtz (select home games)	Tom Reid		100.3 FM KFAN: The Fan^[29]
Nashville	Willy Daunic^[30]	Chris Mason (primary) Hal Gill (select games)	Kara Hammer (home games) Lyndsay Rowley (road games)	Bally Sports South^[31]
	Pete Weber	Jayson More (primary) Hal Gill (select games)		102.5 The Game
San Jose	Randy Hahn	Bret Hedican (primary) Drew Remenda (select games)^[32]^[33]	Brodie Brazil Tara Slone (select home games)	NBC Sports California^[34]
	Dan Rusanowsky	Mark Smith (select games) Scott Hannan (select games) Drew Remenda (select games)^[32]^[33] Bret Hedican (select games)		Sharks Audio Network (sjsharks.com and Sharks + SAP Center app)^[35]^[36]
Seattle	John Forslund	J. T. Brown (rinkside on home games when E. Olczyk in booth; color commentator for other games) Eddie Olczyk (select games) Nick Olczyk (select games)	Piper Shaw (most games) Jen Mueller (select games) Alison Lukan (select games)	Prime Video KONG-TV KING-TV (select games)^[37]
	Everett Fitzhugh	Al Kinisky	Mike Benton	KJR 93.3 FM
St. Louis	John Kelly	Jamie Rivers	Andy Strickland	Bally Sports Midwest^[38]
	Chris Kerber	Joe Vitale		101 ESPN
Utah NHL team	TBA	TBA	TBA	KUPX-TV
	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Vancouver	John Shorthouse	Dave Tomlinson (primary) Ray Ferraro (select games)	Dan Murphy	Sportsnet Pacific Sportsnet Canucks (during conflicts with other Sportsnet programming)^[39]
	Brendan Batchelor	Randip Janda (primary) Dan Riccio (select games) Brett Festerling (select games)		Sportsnet 650 Vancouver
Vegas	Dave Goucher	Shane Hnidy (primary) Darren Eliot (select games)	Ashali Vise	KMCC^[40]^[41] KTNV-TV (preseason only)^[42]
	Dan D'Uva	Gary Lawless (primary) Darren Eliot (select games)		KKGK (English Radio)
	Jesus Lopez	Herbert Castro		1460 ESPN Deportes (Spanish Radio)
Winnipeg	Dan Robertson	Kevin Sawyer	John Lu	TSN3^[43]
	Paul Edmonds	Jamie Thomas		680 CJOB Power 97

National broadcasters

Canada

Main articles: NHL on Sportsnet and TVA Sports

National television rights in Canada are held by Rogers Media. CBC Television, the previous over-the-air television broadcaster of the NHL, continues to participate in coverage to an extent: Rogers reached a deal with CBC to license the Hockey Night in Canada brand and maintain the network's traditional Saturday night games. HNIC games now airs nationally across CBC, Citytv, and the Sportsnet channels, rather than be split across CBC stations on a regional basis. FX Canada was originally also used to show games (usually simulcasts of all-American matchups), but has not carried regular season or playoff broadcasts since the first year of the Rogers contract. Sportsnet also airs a primetime game of the week on Monday nights, known as Rogers Monday Night Hockey since 2022, and exclusive Wednesday night games under the Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey brand. On other days of the week, Sportsnet's national broadcasts typically feature all-American matchups, carrying a simulcast of either ESPN, Turner Sports, or a home team's network. On a few occasions, regional Sportsnet broadcasts of Canucks, Flames, Maple Leafs, and Oilers games are also aired nationally, with the host team's network in charge of in-game coverage. During the playoffs, games are split between CBC and the Sportsnet channels, though some games aired on CBC may also be simulcast on Sportsnet.

Sportsnet previously aired a national NHL telecast on Sunday (2014–2020) and Monday nights (2021–2022) under the Hometown Hockey brand.

Additionally, the Quebecor Media-owned TVA Sports receives French-language rights as part of another sub-licensing deal with Rogers. Hockey Night in Canada is also broadcast in the Punjabi language via Rogers-owned Omni Television.

Announcers

Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Host/reporter	Network
Chris Cuthbert Harnarayan Singh John Bartlett Rick Ball Jack Michaels John Shorthouse Mike Luck	Craig Simpson Louie DeBrusk Garry Galley Greg Millen Dave Tomlinson John Garrett Sam Cosentino Jamal Mayers	Kyle Bukauskas Shawn McKenzie Scott Oake Sean Reynolds Gene Principe Ryan Leslie Dan Murphy Caroline Cameron Ken Reid	Sportsnet CBC (English)
Félix Séguin Sébastien Goulet Denis Casavant	Patrick Lalime Alain Chainey Renaud Lavoie (rinkside for Montreal Canadiens games)	Elizabeth Rancourt Michel Godbout	TVA Sports (French)
Mantar Bhandal	Harpreet Pandher	Amrit Gill	Omni Television (Punjabi)

United States

Main articles: NHL on ESPN, NHL on ABC, and NHL on TNT

National television rights in English language in the United States are held by ESPN/ABC and Turner Sports, with ESPN Deportes broadcasting games in the Spanish language. During the regular season, ESPN, TBS, and TNT airs most nationally televised games. Most national games on ESPN would not be available on television; instead they are streamed online exclusively on ESPN+. ABC will also air a select number of games nationally. The NHL Network in the U.S. also regularly airs games, but primarily simulcasts of either a regional or Canadian feed. Starting in 2021, Saturday (early-season) or Sunday (mid-late season) afternoon games on NHL Network were rebranded as the NHL Network Showcase, using the network's on-air staff instead of merely simulcasting a regional feed.

All nationally televised regular season games on ESPN and ABC are exclusive broadcasts; games on TNT may co-exist with regional networks. Likewise, games produced by ESPN that stream on ESPN+ are exclusive and not available to co-exist with the regional networks. Except for playoff games aired on ABC, first round playoff games may be aired by the local networks alongside ESPN and TNT, but all playoff games from the second round onward would be exclusive to either of the three networks.

Announcers

Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Ice-level analyst(s)	Rinkside reporter(s)	Rules analyst(s)	Network
Sean McDonough Bob Wischusen Mike Monaco Steve Levy John Buccigross Roxy Bernstein	Ray Ferraro A. J. Mleczko Kevin Weekes Ryan Callahan Cassie Campbell-Pascall Mark Messier P. K. Subban	Ray Ferraro A. J. Mleczko Ryan Callahan	Emily Kaplan Leah Hextall Blake Bolden	Dave Jackson	ESPN ESPN2 ABC ESPN+/Hulu
Kenny Albert Brendan Burke John Forslund Alex Faust Randy Hahn Jim Jackson	Eddie Olczyk Jennifer Botterill Bret Hedican Shane Hnidy Butch Goring Jody Shelley	Brian Boucher Darren Pang Bryce Salvador Darren Eliot Colby Armstrong Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre Shane Hnidy Jody Shelley	Jackie Redmond Tarik El-Bashir Nabil Karim Kathryn Tappen Alyson Lozoff	Don Koharski Brad Meier	TNT TBS
John Ahlers Pat Foley Judd Sirott John Forslund Jack Michaels	Joe Micheletti Nick Olczyk Brian Hayward Mike Greenlay Brian Boucher Jim Fox	Billy Jaffe Nick Olczyk	—		Sports USA
E. J. Hradek Jamie Hersch	Kevin Weekes	—			NHL Network (NHL Network Showcase)

International broadcasters

Africa

Country	Broadcaster
Sub-Saharan Africa	ESPN

America

Country	Broadcaster
Latin America	ESPN
Brazil	ESPN
Caribbean	ESPN

Asia

Country	Broadcaster
Central Asia	Setanta Sports
China	CCTV
Hong Kong	Now TV
Indonesia	Mola
Malaysia
Singapore
Israel	Sport 5
South Korea	Coupang^[44]
Tajikistan	TV Varzish

Europe

Country	Broadcaster
Andorra	Movistar+
Armenia	Setanta Sports
Austria	Sky Sport,^[45] Puls 4^[46]
Azerbaijan	Setanta Sports
Belarus	Setanta Sports
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Arena Sport
Bulgaria	Max Sport
Croatia	Arena Sport
Czech Republic	Nova Sport
Denmark	Viaplay
Estonia	Viaplay
Finland	Viaplay, Yle
France	beIN Sports
Georgia	Setanta Sports
Germany	Sky Sport, ProSieben Maxx^[45]
Hungary	Arena4
Iceland	Viaplay
Ireland	Premier Sports
Italy	Sky Sport
Latvia	Viaplay
Lithuania
Liechtenstein	MySports, Sky Sport
Luxembourg	Sky Sport
Moldova	Setanta Sports
Montenegro	Arena Sport
Netherlands	ESPN
North Macedonia	Arena Sport
Norway	Viaplay
Poland	Viaplay
Portugal	SportTV
Russia	Yandex, Match TV (suspended)^[47]
San Marino	Sky Sport
Serbia	Arena Sport
Slovakia	Nova Sport
Slovenia	Arena Sport
Spain	Movistar+
Sweden	Viaplay
Switzerland	MySports
Turkey	S Sport
Ukraine	Setanta Sports
United Kingdom	Viaplay^[48]

Oceania

Country	Broadcaster
Australia	ESPN
New Zealand
Pacific Islands
Papua New Guinea

See also

NHL networks

• NHL Network (United States)
• NHL Network (Canada) (2001–2015)

Out-of-market packages

• NHL Center Ice (U.S.)
• NHL Centre Ice (Canada)
• National Hockey League on television
• List of current Major League Baseball broadcasters
• List of current Major League Soccer broadcasters
• List of current National Basketball Association broadcasters
• List of current National Football League broadcasters

References

1. Boston Bruins broadcasters
2. Buffalo Sabres Broadcasters
3. Carolina Hurricanes broadcasters
4. Columbus Blue Jackets on TV
5. Columbus Blue Jackets Radio Network
6. Detroit Red Wings TV Announcers
7. Detroit Red Wings Radio announcers
8. Florida Panthers broadcasters
9. TSN Features Live Coverage of 50 Regular Season Montreal Canadiens Games as Part of 2019-20 Regional NHL Broadcast Schedule
10. Montreal Canadiens schedule
11. New Jersey Devils schedule
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14. New York Rangers schedule
15. TSN Announces 2019-20 Ottawa Senators Broadcast Schedule, Featuring Regional Coverage of 55 Regular Season Games
16. Philadelphia Flyers schedule
17. Pittsburgh Penguins Media Affiliates
18. Tampa Bay Lightning schedule
19. Tampa Bay Lightning Radio Network
20. Washington Capitals schedule
21. Anaheim Ducks broadcasters
22. Calgary Flames schedule
23. Chicago Blackhawks schedule
24. Altitude Sports Avalanche Schedule
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26. Dallas Stars Broadcast Information
27. Edmonton Oilers TV schedule
28. LA Kings Broadcast Information
29. Minnesota Wild TV, radio broadcasts will feature new announcers this season
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31. Nashville Predators schedule
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39. Vancouver Canucks schedule
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External links

• International broadcasters