The following is a list of current (entering the 2016–17 NHL season) NHL broadcasters.
Regional broadcasters
The following is a list of local TV and radio broadcasters for each individual team. Two teams, Buffalo Sabres and Dallas Stars, do television/radio simulcasts. Both the Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators each have local English and French language broadcasts to serve their large anglophone and francophone fan bases. 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.
Eastern Conference
Team | Play-by-play | Color commentators | Flagship stations |
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Boston | Jack Edwards | Andy Brickley
Sarah Davis (rinkside) |
NESN |
Dave Goucher | Bob Beers | The Sports Hub
100.7 WZLX (During the 2016-2017 season, WZLX will carry Bruins' games in conflict with New England Patriots football games and Bruins' road games in conflict with Boston Celtics basketball home games; WBZ-FM also carrying the Patriots and Celtics) | |
Buffalo | Rick Jeanneret
Dan Dunleavy (games that Jeanneret does not work) |
Rob Ray | MSG/Bell TV
WGR |
Carolina | John Forslund JP Dellacamera (during Forslund's NHL on NBC assignments) |
Tripp Tracy | Fox Sports Carolinas
Fox Sports Southeast (select broadcasts) |
Chuck Kaiton | WCMC-FM | ||
Columbus | Jeff Rimer | Jody Shelley | Fox Sports Ohio |
Bob McElligott | 97.1 The Fan | ||
Detroit | Ken Daniels | Chris Osgood (away games)Mickey Redmond (home games) | Fox Sports Detroit |
Ken Kal | Paul Woods | 97.1 The Ticket | |
Florida | Steve Goldstein | Bill Lindsay | Fox Sports Florida |
Randy Moller | John Vanbiesbrouck | 560 WQAM (English Radio) | |
Arley Londoño | 990 ESPN Deportes (Spanish Radio) | ||
Montreal | John Bartlett | Jason York | Sportsnet East
City Montreal (English Regional) |
Dick Irvin, Jr. | Pat Flatley | TSN 690 (English Radio) | |
Pierre Houde | Marc Denis | RDS (French Regional) | |
Martin McGuire | Danny Dubé | 98,5 FM (French Radio) | |
New Jersey | Steve Cangialosi | Ken Daneyko | MSG Plus (most games)
MSG Network (during Knicks and Rangers off-days) |
Matt Loughlin | Sherry Ross | WFAN 66 AM and 101 FM (English Radio) | |
NY Islanders | Jiggs McDonald | Ed Westfall | MSG Plus |
Chris King | Greg Picker | WFAN Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM
WCBS Newsradio 880 (playoffs) | |
NY Rangers | Sam Rosen John Giannone (during Rosen's Fox NFL assignments; rinkside on all other games) |
John Davidson Phil Esposito | MSG Network
MSG Plus (during conflicts with Knicks broadcasts) |
Kenny Albert | Joe Micheletti | 98.7 ESPN
WOR 710 (in conflict with New York Knicks basketball coverage on 98.7 ESPN) | |
Ottawa | Chris Cuthbert | Ray Ferraro | 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 | Unique FM (French Radio) | |
Philadelphia | Jim Jackson | Bill Clement
Brian Boucher (during Clement's absences) Chris Therien (rinkside) |
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
Comcast Network Philadelphia |
Tim Saunders | Steve Coates | 97.5 The Fanatic
93.3 WMMR | |
Pittsburgh | Mike Lange | Paul Steigerwald | Root Sports Pittsburgh |
Sam Nover | Phil Bourque | The X at 105.9 | |
Tampa Bay | Rick Peckham | Brian Engblom | Fox Sports Sun |
David Mishkin | Dave Andreychuk (Home Games Only) Chris Dingman (Away Games Only) |
970 WFLA | |
Toronto | Gord Miller | Pierre McGuire | TSN4 |
Paul Romanuk
Dave Randorf |
Greg Millen | Sportsnet Ontario | |
Joe Bowen | Jim Ralph | Sportsnet 590
TSN 1050 | |
Washington | Joe Beninati | Craig Laughlin | Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic |
John Walton | Ken Sabourin | Federal News Radio |
Western Conference
Team | Play-by-play | Color commentators | Flagship Stations |
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Anaheim | John Ahlers | Brian Hayward | Fox Sports West
Prime Ticket |
Steve Carroll | Dan Wood | Angels Radio AM 830[18] | |
Arizona | Matt McConnell | Tyson Nash | Fox Sports Arizona |
Bob Heethuis | Nick Boynton | ESPN Phoenix 620 AM
Arizona Sports 98.7 FM | |
Calgary | Rick Ball | Kelly Hrudey | Sportsnet West Sportsnet Flames |
Derek Wills | Peter Loubardias | Sportsnet 960 | |
Chicago | Pat Foley | Steve Konroyd
Darren Pang (rinkside) |
Comcast SportsNet Chicago
WGN 9 |
John Wiedeman | Troy Murray | WGN Radio (English Radio) | |
Héctor Lozano
Omar Ramos (during Lozano's Chicago Fire broadcasts) |
Omar Ramos
Mateo Moreno |
La Tremenda 1200 AM (Spanish Radio) | |
Colorado | Mike Haynes | Peter McNab | Altitude |
Marc Moser | Altitude Sports Radio | ||
Dallas | Dave Strader
Daryl Reaugh (during Strader's absences) |
Daryl Reaugh
Craig Ludwig (during Reaugh working play-by-play) |
Fox Sports Southwest (TV)
The Ticket (Radio) |
Edmonton | Kevin Quinn | Drew Remenda | Sportsnet West
Sportsnet Oilers |
Jack Michaels | Bob Stauffer | 630 CHED | |
Los Angeles | Bob Miller (all non-national TV home games and select Western Conference road games)
Gary Thorne (road games from November 8–15 and December 13–18) |
Jim Fox (all non-national TV home games and select Western Conference road games)
Bill Clement (road games from November 8–15 and December 13–18) Ed Westfall (road game on February 9) |
Fox Sports West Prime Ticket My13 (during conflicts with Ducks and Clippers broadcasts) |
Nick Nickson | Daryl Evans | 790 KABC | |
Minnesota | Anthony LaPanta | Mike Greenlay
Kevin Gorg (rinkside) |
Fox Sports North |
Bob Kurtz | Tom Reid | 100.3 FM KFAN: The Fan | |
Nashville | Willy Daunic | Stu Grimson | Fox Sports Tennessee
Fox Sports Southeast (select broadcasts) |
Pete Weber | Brent Peterson | 102.5 The Game | |
St. Louis | John Kelly | Berrnie Federko | Fox Sports Midwest |
Chris Kerber | Kelly Chase | NewsRadio 1120
Y98 (selected playoff games) | |
San Jose | Randy Hahn | Jamie Baker | NBC Sports California |
Dan Rusanowsky | Bret Hedican | 98.5 K-FOX (English Radio) | |
Vancouver | John Shorthouse | John Garrett | Sportsnet Pacific
Sportsnet Vancouver Hockey |
Jon Abbott
John Shorthouse (during select national broadcasts) |
Dave Tomlinson | TSN 1040 | |
Winnipeg | Dennis Beyak
Brian Munz (during Beyak's World Juniors assignments) |
Shane Hnidy | TSN3 |
Paul Edmonds
Dennis Beyak (national TV games) |
Brian Munz | TSN 1290 |
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, City, FX Canada, and the Sportsnet channels, rather than be split across CBC stations on a regional basis. Sportsnet also airs a primetime game of the week on Sunday nights, known as Hometown Hockey, and exclusive Wednesday night games. During the playoffs, games are split between CBC and the Sportsnet channels.
Additionally, the Quebec or 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 NBC. 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.
Also, starting in 2015, NBC 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.