NHL on ESPN opening night was the most-watched season-opening doubleheader on record
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ESPN’s return to NHL broadcasting showed a lot of potential
After seventeen years away, the NHL made a welcome return to ESPN on Tuesday.
John Tortorella, famed for many past media confrontations, is joining the media again, this time as an ESPN analyst
ESPN has hired Tortorella, tied for 12th in all-time NHL regular-season wins (and tied for the lead amongst American coaches), but also famed for a lot of run-ins with the media over the years.
Full NHL on ESPN team announced, with Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Rick DiPietro, Hilary Knight, and Blake Bolden as notable additions
ESPN has landed a lot of hockey talent, including from TSN, Sportsnet, and NHL Network.
NHL announces 2022 Winter Classic at Target Field and 2022 Stadium Series at Nissan Stadium in Nashville
After the 2020-21 season didn't feature outdoor games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NHL is bringing two of those games back for 2021-22.
ESPN’s Chris Fowler and John Buccigross to host NHL-produced expansion draft and entry draft coverage
A lot of ESPN talent will be featured on these feeds, which will be seen on ESPN2 in the U.S. and on Sportsnet in Canada.
ESPN has added Mark Messier as a NHL studio analyst
Mark Messier is taking his talents to the NHL on ESPN studio.
ESPN is set to add Kevin Weekes, AJ Mleczko Griswold and Ryan Callahan to NHL coverage, with Turner adding Anson Carter
We now have the next wave of names we'll see on national NHL broadcasts this fall.
Leah Hextall will call games for ESPN’s NHL coverage next season, becoming the first woman with a regular national NHL PBP role
Last year, Hextall became the first woman to do cross-Canada play-by-play of a NHL game in English, serving as the play-by-play voice for Rogers Sportsnet's International Women's Day all-female Flames-Golden Knights broadcast.
Ray Ferraro and Brian Boucher are set to join ESPN’s NHL coverage, but Wayne Gretzky is reportedly only looking at TNT
Ferraro and Boucher are both long-time NHL media figures.
ESPN has pitched Wayne Gretzky on a NHL broadcasting role, is also pitching Ray Ferraro and Kevin Weekes
"Whether Gretzky, an alternate governor for the Edmonton Oilers, is interested is unknown, but at this point ESPN hasn’t been given a 'no.'"
The NHL has reportedly reached a deal with ESPN for a partial rights package, including four Stanley Cup finals, streaming, and more
It sounds like ESPN will be taking on part of the NHL's national rights package, including four Stanley Cup Finals over seven years.
Max Kellerman is the latest ESPN figure to dump on the NHL, saying “no one really cares about hockey”
"The TV ratings don't do anything. It's not one of the four major team sports."
