NHL network announcers are Mike Maniscalco, Jeff Rimer, Ken Daniels, Bryan Mudryk, Bill Spaulding, Sam Rosen, Gord Miller and Dave Randorf.
Regular-season games, pre-and post-game analysis, player interviews, and league-wide highlights are all covered by the network.
You can watch the NHL Network on the Spectrum channel list to make sure you never miss a game action. With a professional commentator and broadcaster, they provide in-depth coverage of the game.
The National Hockey League is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada to maintain separate national broadcasters in each nation.
The American Hockey League, collegiate hockey, and the IIHF World Junior Championship are a few additional events that have been shown on the Network.
NHL Network Commentators List
The broadcasters for the network are:
- Andy Brickley
- Tripp Tracy
- Jody Shelley
- Brian Hayward
- Mickey Redmond
- Jamie McLennan
- Bob Errey
- Craig Simpson
Former professional ice hockey player Andy Brickley is the color commentator of the Boston Bruins on the New England Sports Network. Working alongside play-by-play announcer Jack Edwards, Brickley became a familiar voice for Bruins fans.
He started his broadcasting career after getting injured playing for the Grizzlies. In 2011, Brickley won the New England Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Analyst.
With the broadcaster Dave Shea, he joined NESN in 200 and also did commentary NBCSN for televised games as a guest commentator.
Tripp Tracy currently serves as a television and radio color commentator for the Carolina Hurricanes. He joined Hurricanes after retiring from hockey in 1998.
Tracy previously worked for CNN before returning to the Hurricanes organization as an announcer for the 1998–1999 season.
Canadian former ice hockey player Jody Shelley worked as a Blue Jackets television color analyst with play-by-play announcer Jeff Rime in 2014. After retiring from his hockey career, he joined the Columbus Blue Jackets team in 2013 as a broadcast associate and team ambassador.
Former ice hockey left winger Brian Hayward provides color commentary for the Anaheim Ducks broadcasts on Prime Ticket, Bally Sports SoCal, Bally Sports West, and KDOC.
Since joining the franchise, he has broadcast 1,758 regular-season Ducks games. On January 16, 2011, he broadcast his 1,000th Ducks game against Edmonton.
Mickey Redmond currently serves as a color commentator on Bally Sports Detroit's broadcasts of Detroit Red Wings games. After ending his playing career he started working as a television color analyst.
He followed Hockey Night in Canada on CBC, National Hockey Night on ESPN, and NHL on Fox. When ABC aired NHL games featuring the Red Wings, Redmond offered in-studio pre- and post-game analysis for WXYZ.
NHL Network Analysts
The network studio team includes:
- Kendall Coyne Schofield
- Ken Daneyko
- Devan Dubnyk
- Brian Boucher
- Billy Jaffe
- Mike Johnson
- Dave Reid
- Mike Rupp
Member of the United States women's national ice hockey team Kendall Coyne Schofield is an analyst for Network's studio programming, which includes the network's flagship studio program NHL Tonight.
Coyne received the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award in 2016 and the NCAA Today's Top 10 Award in 2017. She has also provided color commentary for the San Jose Sharks.
Ken Daneyko, a former professional ice hockey defenseman, is a commentator who appears in all of its studio programs. Daneyko works for them in addition to serving as a color analyst for MSG Networks' Devils coverage.
He provides color commentary alongside Bill Spaulding during MSG Sportsnet broadcasts of Devils games.
Brian Boucher works as a studio and in-game analyst for national ESPN, ABC, and Philadelphia Flyers games on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Boucher joined NBC Sports as a studio commentator and "Inside the Glass" reporter at the start of the 2015–16 NHL season.
Following the end of NBC's final Stanley Cup Finals, Boucher joined ESPN/ABC for its NHL coverage, beginning with the 2021–22 season, ESPN/ABC's first season under a 7–year reunion arrangement.
On-air ice-hockey analyst for NESN Billy Jaffe offers commentary for the pregame, postgame, and intermission presentations. Jaffe also provided hockey analysis for Sportsnet and some NHL Network broadcasts.
During the 1998–99 season, Jaffe started his broadcasting career as an analyst on the Chicago Blackhawks' pre-game, intermission, and post-game radio show.
Mike Johnson, an NHL Network and TSN analyst, previously worked as the Winnipeg Jets' color analyst. He moved to Sportsnet to work on national games after Rogers Media bought the NHL rights, where he was assigned to his first conference final in 2015.
NHL Network Hosts
The hosts for the National Hockey network are:
- Lauren Gardner
- Jamison Coyle
- Jamie Hersch
- Tony Luftman
- Jessica Blaylock
- Dan Murphy
- Sarah Merrifield
The Female host Lauren Gardner joined the network in 2019. She has hosted a number of shows, such as NHL Tonight, On the Fly, and Quick Pitch.
She has also hosted pre-and post-game shows for the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets on the Altitude Sports Network. Gardner has covered the NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA, college basketball, college football, and several Super Bowls for CBS Sports, AT&T SportsNet, FOX Sports Ohio, MTV2, ESPN, and the Smithsonian Channel.
Jamison Coyle is a host that appears on all programs, including the premier studio program NHL Tonight. Coyle has also contributed to the coverage of numerous feature programs and special events, such as the Stanley Cup Final and NHL Draft.
He previously had positions as a studio anchor and reporter at New England Sports Network (NESN) for "NESN Daily" and "Hockey East."
American journalist Jamie Hersch hosts the show On the Fly. Hersch began her career at Madison, Wisconsin's WKOW-TV. Then, in 2013, she was recruited by Fox Sports North to cover the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Wild.
She traveled to Kuwait while working for Fox Sports North to interview many former NHL players who introduced hockey to the American troops serving abroad.
Tony Luftman is a host who can be seen on all of Network's shows, including the main one, NHL Tonight. Luftman has broadcasted for the NHL, MLB, NBA, NFL, MMA, collegiate sports, and WWE throughout his career.
NHL Network Anchors List
The anchors on NHL Network includes:
- Jackie Redmond
- Steve Mears
- Jamie Hersch
Redmond is an anchor and television personality who is best known for her work with the Sportsnet network. She has worked for WWE and hockey broadcast.
Redmond started her broadcasting career as a host and reporter for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). She began working for Sportsnet in 2011 as a reporter and host for the network's coverage of the Toronto Blue Jays, OHL, and AHL.
Steve Mears anchored NHL.com's video segments and was the play-by-play announcer for the IIHF World Junior Championships. Mears made his NHL Network debut in 2012 by covering the Stanley Cup Final and NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
He began working for the network as the co-host of NHL Now in February 2013. Mears made his NHL broadcasting debut on October 5, 2006, during a game between the New York Islanders and the Phoenix Coyotes.
Steve has also worked with the Penguins for four seasons, covering their radio and television game broadcasts, anchoring "Penguins Live" on Pittsburgh Penguins 24/7 Radio, and contributing to PensTV on the official team website.
