List of current National Hockey League broadcasters

The following is a list of current (as of 2020–21 NHL season) National Hockey League broadcasters. With 24 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 and Dallas Stars, do television/radio simulcasts. Both the Los Angeles Kings and the New Jersey Devils lack flagship terrestrial radio stations, and have instead partnered with the Internet radio platforms iHeartRadio and Radio.com, 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 both added Spanish language broadcasts to serve their Hispanic fan bases. Not all teams televise their preseason games.

For the 2020–21 season, announcers and other members of the media were not allowed to travel with the team during road games due to COVID-19 concerns. Instead, they would work these games remotely.[1]

Eastern Conference
Team Play-by-play Color commentators Flagship stations
Boston Jack Edwards Andy Brickley
Sophia Jurksztowicz (rinkside)		 NESN[2]
Judd Sirott Bob Beers The Sports Hub[2]
Rock 92.9 (during conflicts with Patriots games or road games in conflict with Celtics home games)
Buffalo Rick Jeanneret (primary)
Dan Dunleavy (during Jeanneret's absences)		 Rob Ray
Martin Biron		 MSG Western New York/Bell TV[3]
WGR 550[4]
Carolina Mike Maniscalco Tripp Tracy Fox Sports Carolinas[5]
99.9 The Fan[5]
Columbus Jeff Rimer Jody Shelley Fox Sports Ohio[6]
Bob McElligott 97.1 The Fan[7]
Detroit Ken Daniels Mickey Redmond (home games and select away games)
Chris Osgood (select away games)
Larry Murphy (select away games)		 Fox Sports Detroit[8]
Ken Kal Paul Woods 97.1 The Ticket[9]
Florida Steve Goldstein Randy Moller Fox Sports Florida[10]
Doug Plagens Bill Lindsay 560 The Joe
Fox Sports 640[10] (English Radio)
Arley Londoño 990 ESPN Deportes (Spanish Radio)
Montreal Bryan Mudryk (primary)
Dan Robertson (during Mudryk's Senators TV assignments)		 Dave Poulin (select games)
Mike Johnson (select games)
Craig Button (select games)[11]		 TSN2 (English Regional)
Dan Robertson (primary)
Sean Campbell (during Robertson's TV assignments)		 Sergio Momesso TSN 690 (English Radio)
Pierre Houde Marc Denis RDS (French Regional)[12]
Martin McGuire Danny Dubé 98,5 FM (French Radio)
New Jersey Steve Cangialosi Ken Daneyko
Bryce Salvador (rinkside on all home games)		 MSG Plus
MSG Network (during Knicks and Rangers off-days)[13]
Matt Loughlin Chico Resch Radio.com app
WFAN Sports Radio (select games)
New York Islanders Brendan Burke Butch Goring
A.J. Mleczko (select games)		 MSG Plus[14]
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)[15]
New York Rangers Sam Rosen (primary)
John Giannone (during Rosen's absences)		 Joe Micheletti MSG Network
MSG Plus (during conflicts with Knicks broadcasts)[16]
Kenny Albert (primary)
Don La Greca (during Albert's NFL on Fox, NHL on NBC, Knicks on MSG, or MLB on Fox TV assignments)		 Dave Maloney ESPN 98.7 FM
ESPN 1050 AM (during conflicts with Knicks broadcasts)
Ottawa Gord Miller (primary)
Bryan Mudryk (during Miller's Maple Leafs TV assignments)
Various substitute announcers (when Miller and Mudryk are unavailable)		 Ray Ferraro (select games)
Jamie McLennan (select games)
Mike Johnson (select games)[17]		 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 104,7 FM (French Radio)
Philadelphia Jim Jackson Keith Jones NBC Sports Philadelphia[18]
Tim Saunders Steve Coates 97.5 The Fanatic
93.3 WMMR
Pittsburgh Steve Mears Bob Errey AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh[19]
Mike Lange (home games)
Josh Getzoff (away games)		 Phil Bourque The X at 105.9[19]
Tampa Bay Dave Randorf Brian Engblom Fox Sports Sun[20]
Dave Mishkin Phil Esposito (home games only)
Caley Chelios (away games only)		 970 WFLA[21]
Toronto Gord Miller Ray Ferraro TSN4
Chris Cuthbert Craig Simpson Sportsnet Ontario
Joe Bowen Jim Ralph Sportsnet 590
TSN 1050
Washington Joe Beninati Craig Laughlin
Alan May (rinkside on all home games)		 NBC Sports Washington[22]
John Walton (primary)
Grady Whittenburg (during Walton's NHL on NBC assignments)		 Ken Sabourin WFED 1500
106.7 The Fan (Selected Games Only)

Western Conference
Team Play-by-play Color commentators Flagship Stations
Anaheim John Ahlers Brian Hayward Fox Sports Prime Ticket (most games)
Fox Sports West (some games)
KCOP (during conflicts with Kings, Clippers and Angels broadcasts)[23]
Steve Carroll Dan Wood Angels Radio AM 830
The Mighty 1090[23]
Arizona Matt McConnell Tyson Nash Fox Sports Arizona[24]
Bob Heethuis Lyndsey Fry Fox Sports 910
Calgary Rick Ball Kelly Hrudey (primary)
Cassie Campbell-Pascall (during Hrudey's Hockey Night in Canada assignments)		 Sportsnet West
Sportsnet Flames (during conflicts with Oilers broadcasts or other Sportsnet programming)[25]
Derek Wills Peter Loubardias Sportsnet 960
Chicago Pat Foley Eddie Olczyk (primary)
Steve Konroyd (during Olczyk's NHL on NBC assignments)		 NBC Sports Chicago[26]
John Wiedeman Troy Murray WGN Radio (English Radio)
Héctor Lozano (primary)
Omar Ramos (during Lozano's Chicago Fire broadcasts)		 Omar Ramos (primary)
Mateo Moreno (when Ramos is doing play-by-play)		 Univision Deportes 1200 AM (Spanish Radio)
Colorado Marc Moser Peter McNab
Mark Rycroft (select games)		 Altitude[27]
Conor McGahey Altitude Sports AM
Altitude Sports FM
Dallas Josh Bogorad Daryl Reaugh
Sarah Merrifield (rinkside)		 Fox Sports Southwest[28]
The Ticket[29]
Edmonton Jack Michaels Louie DeBrusk Sportsnet West
Sportsnet Oilers (during conflicts with Flames broadcasts or other Sportsnet programming)[30]
Cam Moon (regionally televised games)
Jack Michaels (nationally televised games)		 Bob Stauffer 630 CHED
Los Angeles Alex Faust Jim Fox Fox Sports West (most games)
Fox Sports Prime Ticket (some games)
KCOP (during conflicts with Ducks, Clippers and Angels broadcasts)[31]
Nick Nickson Daryl Evans iHeartRadio app
Minnesota Anthony LaPanta Wes Walz (select games)
Ryan Carter (select games)
Lou Nanne (select games)
Kevin Gorg (rinkside)		 Fox Sports North[32]
Bob Kurtz (home games and select away games)
Paul Allen (select away games)
Jim Erickson (select away games)
Kevin Falness (select away games)
Joe O'Donnell (select away games)		 Tom Reid 100.3 FM KFAN: The Fan[32]
Nashville Willy Daunic[33] Chris Mason Fox Sports Tennessee[34]
Pete Weber Hal Gill 102.5 The Game
San Jose Randy Hahn Bret Hedican NBC Sports California[35]
Dan Rusanowsky Mark Smith (select games)
Scott Hannan (select games)		 Sharks Audio Network (sjsharks.com and Sharks + SAP Center app)[36][37]
St. Louis John Kelly Darren Pang
Bernie Federko		 Fox Sports Midwest[38]
Chris Kerber Joe Vitale 101 ESPN
Vancouver John Shorthouse John Garrett Sportsnet Pacific
Sportsnet Canucks (during conflicts with other Sportsnet programming)[39]
Brendan Batchelor Corey Hirsch Sportsnet 650 Vancouver
Vegas Dave Goucher Shane Hnidy
Stormy Buonantony (rinkside)		 AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain
KTNV-TV (preseason only)[40]
Dan D'Uva Gary Lawless KKGK (English Radio)
Jesus Lopez Herbert Castro 1460 ESPN Deportes (Spanish Radio)
Winnipeg Dennis Beyak (primary)
Brian Munz (during Beyak's World Juniors assignments)		 Kevin Sawyer TSN3[41]
Paul Edmonds Jamie Thomas CJKR-FM & CJOB

National broadcasters

Canada
Main articles: NHL on Sportsnet, List of NHL on Sportsnet commentators, 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 Sunday nights, known as Rogers Hometown Hockey, and exclusive Wednesday night games. During the playoffs, games are split between CBC and the Sportsnet channels.

Additionally, the Quebecor Media-owned TVA Sports receives French-language rights as part of another sub-licensing deal with Rogers.

United States
Main articles: NHL on NBC and NHL on NBC commentators

National television rights in English and Spanish languages in the United States are held by NBC. During the regular season, most national broadcasts are on NBCSN, including an exclusive Wednesday night game. From January until the end of the season, an exclusive afternoon "Game of the Week" airs on the weekend on the NBC broadcast network. The NHL Network in the U.S. also regularly airs games, but primarily simulcasts of either a regional or Canadian feed.

Selected games broadcast on NBCSN have syndication exclusivity instead of national exclusivity. For these games, NBCSN televises them nationally, but are blacked out in the teams' local markets in favor of the telecasts of their respective regional broadcaster. Most first round playoff games are also aired on a syndication-exclusivity basis; NBC holds national exclusivity to only a few selected first-round games, but then has it for the remaining three rounds of the playoffs. Playoff games are split between NBC, NBCSN, CNBC (during the first two rounds), and NHL Network (as an overflow channel). In 2015, USA Network also carried several first- and second-round games. In 2018, the Golf Channel was also used for some playoff games.

Also, starting in 2015, Telemundo Deportes, which is NBC Sports Group's Spanish-language sports division, started to carry NHL games in Spanish until the end of the network's current contract with the league in 2021. These Spanish-language simulcasts will be aired on NBC Universo and Telemundo.

International broadcasters

Africa
Country Broadcaster
Middle East and North Africa OSN Sports
Sub-Saharan Africa ESPN

Asia
Country Broadcaster
Asia iflixSEA
Hong Kong TVB Jade
Kazakhstan Setanta Sports
China CCTV
Tajikistan TV Varzish

^SEA - only available in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Europe
Country Broadcaster
Austria DAZN
Bosnia and Herzegovina Arena Sport
Bulgaria Max Sport
Croatia Arena Sport
Czech Republic Nova Sport 1
Denmark TV3 Sport, Viaplay
Finland Viasat Jääkiekko, Viaplay
France Canal+ Sport
Germany Sport 1, DAZN
Ireland Premier Sports
Montenegro Arena Sport
Netherlands ESPN
North Macedonia Arena Sport
Norway Viasport, Viaplay
Poland TVP Sport
Portugal Sport TV
Russia Yandex[42]
Serbia Arena Sport
Slovakia Nova Sport 1
Slovenia Arena Sport
Spain Teledeporte
Movistar Deportes
Sweden Viasat Hockey, Viaplay
Switzerland DAZN
United Kingdom Premier Sports
FreeSports

Latin America
Country Broadcaster
Brazil ESPN Brasil
Mexico
Central America
Dominican Republic		 Sky Sports

Oceania
Country Broadcaster
Australia Fox Sports

See also
NHL networks
Out-of-market packages

References
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  3. Buffalo Sabres Broadcasters
  4. Buffalo Sabres Broadcasters
  5. Carolina Hurricanes broadcasters
  6. Columbus Blue Jackets on TV
  7. Columbus Blue Jackets Radio Network
  8. Detroit Red Wings TV Announcers
  9. Detroit Red Wings Radio announcers
  10. Florida Panthers broadcasters
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  13. New Jersey Devils schedule
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  19. Pittsburgh Penguins Media Affiliates
  20. Tampa Bay Lightning schedule
  21. Tampa Bay Lightning Radio Network
  22. Washington Capitals schedule
  23. Anaheim Ducks broadcasters
  24. Phoenix Coyotes Television Information
  25. Calgary Flames schedule
  26. Chicago Blackhawks schedule
  27. Colorado Avalanche schedule
  28. Dallas Stars Broadcast Information
  29. Dallas Stars Broadcast Information
  30. Edmonton Oilers TV schedule
  31. LA Kings Broadcast Information
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