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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
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

Martin Biron

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

Gary Dornhoefer

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
NBC 10

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
Anaheim John Ahlers Brian Hayward Fox Sports West

Prime Ticket
KDOC-TV Los Angeles (during conflicts with Kings and Clippers broadcasts)

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)
Ralph Strangis (road games from December 20–23, January 26 and 31, all games from February 16 onwards)
Chris Cuthbert (road games from January 21–24 and February 4)
Jiggs McDonald (road game on February 9)

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)
Kelly Hrudey (road games from December 20–23, January 26 and 31, all games from February 16 onwards)
Ray Ferraro (road games from January 21–24 and February 4)

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.

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