The Anaheim Ducks who, as The Athletics Lisa Dillman has pointed out, had a female scouting coordinator in the 1990s in Angela Gorgone recently hired Gabriella Switaj as an analyst and amateur scout. Her efforts include helping develop and promote a line of womens protective gear and making sure sponsored female athletes get equal billing to their male counterparts in promotional materials. After a successful six-year run playing in the CWHL, it didnt take long for Kori Cheverie to find her calling as a coach. Owning her own her uniqueness, asking for the opportunity, and overcoming obstacles are just some of the steps on her journey. Hextall joined the ESPN broadcast team in 2021, where she serves as a commentator for select NHL games. Not only that, Hextall has a unique charisma and has done exceptionally well everywhere shes gone. Sophia Jurksztowicz Joins NESN As New Bruins Rinkside Reporter by NESN Staff August 13, 2019 Sophia Jurksztowicz (Yurk-shto-vitch) has been named NESN Bruins Rinkside Reporter. She won gold at the 2019 womens world championship with the most dominant American squad weve ever seen, now the Goliath of womens hockey to Canadas David. Leah Hextall (born c.1981) is a Canadian sports journalist and ice hockey play-by-play broadcaster. People think its just about being a professional athlete and making millions of dollars and thats the furthest thing from what were trying to do. It was clear, even in her first three explosive strides, that what Coyne Schofield did that night was about so much more than a lap around the rink. Who are the announcers for NHL on ESPN? When Coyne Schofield skates, we watch. Its Katie Millions job to keep them there. She worked for CTV Winnipeg from 2005 to 2012 and for NESN as host of NESN Today from 2012-14. Pegula also chairs a special NHL council dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion at league and club levels. They/we deserve better. I think its a process of education and connecting the dots for communicating with management, coaches and players, Chayka says. In playing overseas, stars like Rty, Carpenter and Bozek are doing what their PWHPA peers back home are not: playing competitive hockey, and making a living wage doing so. To grasp No. Denver Nuggets Reporter/Analyst. She shone the brightest at the leagues recent All-Star weekend, hosted by the Pride, and is growing her star power on a weekly basis with an incredible 17 goals and 40 points in 24 games this season. Today, girls hockey is one of the fastest-growing sports in North America and women are hitting the ice at NHL All-Star Weekend. She is host and co-executive producer of THE SHIFT WITH KAYLA GREY POWERED BY DELL XPS, and appears regularly as a host of SPORTSCENTRE and. Leah Hextall, with longstanding family ties to UND hockey, to call regional games for ESPN Leah is the niece of UND's first NHL player, Dennis, and the second-cousin of former UND forward. The team, which was part of the CWHL and is now being subsidized by the Chinese government in an effort to grow the game, is the lone Chinese club in an eight-team league based in Russia, the Zhenskaya Khokkeinaya Liga or Womens Hockey League (WHL). NBC Sports Philadelphia. For the fourth straight year, NHL Network will be airing an all-female edition of their signature NHL Now show in celebration of International Women's Day, with this one airing Monday at 4 p.m . Please contact us. First of all, ESPN continues to grab up talent. Shes just such a great person and somebody that you can look to and want to be like and want to emulate and I think shes one thats just making waves and doing it quietly and humbly.. Its just something that is not even possible, to have multiple women in the room at almost every other NHL franchise, talking about NHL players, helping a team make decisions. Now, the star netminder is helping grow the game in China, too. Her intelligence and enthusiasm combine to make her a natural fit for any pro sports broadcasting market ~ Bob Babinski, Performance Trainer. A FORMER PLAYER with the NWHLs Connecticut Whale, Anya Packer took over the NWHLPA at a deeply challenging time. Love to see some of the Golden Coynes out there! When she finished, they gave her a standing ovation. Searching for the essence of Cardinals great Curt Flood. And then, all of a sudden, there was a female voice.. [12] The hiring, later confirmed by The Athletic, makes her "the first woman to hold [a play-by-play] role as part of a national TV broadcast. KORI CHEVERIE | RYERSON RAMS MENS HOCKEY LEAD ASSITANT COACH Hextall also made history as the first woman to call an NCAA Mens Ice Hockey Championship game for ESPN in 2019. WITH FOUR CONSECUTIVE world championship victories and Olympic gold in 2018 on her mantle, former U.S. national womens team director Reagan Carey pretty clearly led the Americans to the top of the international hockey world. Introducing the #USWNT roster for the 2020 @IIHFHockey #WomensWorlds! Underline it and make it bold. Her work on the desk, hosting hockey broadcasts and panel discussions, was excellent -- always on point and dynamic. Now, as the four-time gold medallist and all-time Team Canada points leader embarks on her second career, she continues to set the bar high and lead the way for others to follow. Since 2007, Sophia has worked with various sports-broadcasting companies, including . Since joining the league office in November 2017, Davis has worked closely with organizations up and down what she calls the hockey spine and guided NHL franchises, USA Hockey and Hockey Canada in their efforts to cultivate more diverse and inclusive environments, from their fanbases right up to front offices. [2] And its not just about audiences Browning works across the NHL to help elevate its players, giving them a voice and building their own brands. We know her name. There have been other women to do single games, such as Sherry Ross, who became the first woman to do a full NHL game in 2009. Playing career [ edit] Mleczko attended New Canaan Country School and is a graduate of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. On the ice, shes an unbelievable hockey player. For various reasons, NBC and the NHL are parting ways after roughly 15 years. This interview has been edited for clarity. The Minnesota Duluth men host Miami in their final regular season home series at 7 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday while the UMD women begin postseason play against St. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images). Thats empowering. Lets keep moving forward. John Buccigross; Steve Levy; Sean McDonough; Bob . Hockey really needs women at every level, says Messier. Scott Oake: 1988-present Christine Simpson: 2014-present Kyle Bukauskas: 2016-present Dan Murphy: 2016-present Shawn Mackenzie: 2019-present Caroline Cameron: 2018-present Studio hosts [ edit] Ron MacLean: 1986-2014, 2016-present Studio analysts [ edit] Elliotte Friedman: 2012-present Kelly Hrudey: 1998-present Kevin Bieksa: 2019-present $4.75 per week*. In September, referees Katie Guay and Kelly Cooke, and linesmen Kendall Hanley and Kirsten Welsh served as on-ice officials during NHL prospect tournaments the first time women have ever called an NHL-affiliated event. She . No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website. Why do we ask Black athletes to speak for their whole race? Leah did an outstanding job handling multiple assignments during the tournament. Saying something like "and there weren't even women there to distract them" is insane. With Stathletes, the data and analytics company she launched in 2010, Chayka is altering the way we watch games and analyze performances, and helping those who build teams evaluate prospects and construct rosters. Daryl Watts took the womens college hockey world by storm in 201718 with a remarkable 42-goal, 82-point campaign (over 38 games), winning the Patty Kazmaier award as the best player in the NCAA the only freshman to claim the honour in its 22-year history. This wont be Hextalls first game, as shes done various hockey games, including one with Sportsnet featuring an all-women crew in 2020. Colorado Avalanche Host/Reporter. In Mandrycky, Seattle has a rising star whos doing exactly that. "I . KATHRYN TAPPEN Host and Reporter, NBC Sports Kathryn Tappen is one of NBC Sports' most versatile voices, having served as a host or reporter on many of the biggest events in sports, including the Olympics, Super Bowl, NFL Kickoff, Stanley Cup Playoffs and Final, Notre Dame Football, and golf. ESPN, Inc. A member of the Canadian Women's Hockey Team for 14 years, she is a three-time Olympic champion, CEO of two companies, and an in-demand NHL analyst in both Canada and the US, regularly appearing on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. She was great to work with and had a great work ethic. ~ Derek Jory, The Coaches Site, 2019 by Leah Hextall. The first woman to call play by play for a nationally televised NHL game, Hextall did so as part of Sportsnets first all-female broadcast team in March 2020. Turbo because of her speed. I was also able to work indirectly with her on a number of feature profiles she reported, and I was equally impressed with her acumen in that role. It can mean she strides into an office and takes her seat at the decision-makers table. Redmond, a London, Ontario native and lifelong hockey fan, began her professional career by winning "Gillette DRAFTED 3: The Search for Canada's Next Sportscaster" in 2011, becoming the first female winner in the show's history. And so, with a nod to all the women who came before, weve put together a list of the players, coaches and executives who follow their example and continue to work for progress the most powerful women in hockey today. Curt Flood was a trailblazer whose strength and conviction set the stage for modern player empowerment. so im from sweden, which means ive been watching the winter olympics with swedish commentary, and i realised the commentary team has a ton of women on it, some of the sports even have a female doing the playbyplay, which is weird cause i only know of 1, maybe 2 women who play a major roles in nhl . Andrew Marchand of theNew York Postwas the first to confirm this news. AS HOCKEY EVOLVES, so too does its fanbase. Not all teams even have an analytics staff, or technology staff, so to be able to have that as part of the fabric of the hockey operations department, really from the beginning, I think is going to give us a really big competitive advantage.. With a new wave of Canadian talent on its way, we could see a surge of youth in the next two years as Canada attempts to re-establish its program and its position as the winning side of the games most intense rivalry in Beijing 2022. It didnt take long after her retirement for the Toronto Maple Leafs to scoop up the first-ballot Hall-of-Famer as their assistant director of player development at the time, the highest hockey operations role held by a woman. Take Taylor Hall, for example, whose work with Braid contributed to him elevating his game to Hart Trophy heights in 201718; or John Tavares, who sought out skating sessions with Braid en route to being the No. The advocacy roles in particular arent ones she necessarily anticipated a year ago, but Nurse has embraced them. Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com; Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper; Access News Break, our award-winning app Ever.Shes also the first woman to call play-by-play for a nationally televised NHL game, the first to call an NCAA Mens Ice Hockey Championship game, and the first to do play-by-play for the Mens NCAA Division I Hockey Tournament.Hextall is a trailblazer and when the ESPN commentator speaks, well, she always has something important to say.That was especially the case when she spoke as one of the headliners at TCS Live, hockeys premiere coaching conference, this past June at the University of Michigan.What Hextall had to say is raw, emotional and shocking, but sadly not surprising. The demands on NHL coaches have never been greater and Lindsay Artkin is helping ensure theyre well-equipped to take it all on. Her message was high energy, witting and captivating! Her message of perseverance, commitment and encouragement was excellent and inspiring to all in attendance! A native of Brandon, Manitoba, Hextall graduated from the Columbia Academy of Radio, Television and Recording Arts in Vancouver in 2003. Her impact can still be felt through her work as a consultant to the Canadian national team and shes used her platform to weigh in on the state of the womens game. In 2021, Hextall joined the ESPN broadcast team where she serves as a commentator and reporter for NHL games. Hockey Maharashtra defeated Hockey Haryana 2-1 in penalty . The full NHL on Sportsnet broadcast team is as follows: Hosts George Stroumboulopoulos (Hockey Night in Canada, NHL on Sportsnet) Ron MacLean (Rogers Hometown Hockey, NHL on Sportsnet) Leah. Or rock the boat. With the new structure weve really gone from what could seem like a contentious relationship to a real partnership and I would say that shes my partner in success as opposed to, we compete for success.. Alexa is 25 years old. Bending the rules a little bit here (which is ironic) by grouping four names into one entry, but its only fitting considering these four all made history at the same time. Off the ice, shes one of a kind. Matt. Shes a lightning rod on both sides. NBC Sports announced its hockey broadcast roster for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Shes got young girls the world over picking up the game for the first time and dreaming about being as fast as her, and shes working tirelessly alongside her hometown Chicago Blackhawks to make that happen. SHES ONE OF the most recognizable faces in hockey, a household name across Canada, and a vibrant personality in a game thats looking to showcase more of exactly that. Hayley Wickenheiser. Shes no stranger to media appearances, either, whether its breaking down NHL action between periods on Sportsnet broadcasts or guesting on prominent hockey podcasts. China hasnt qualified for the Olympics since 2010 but with an automatic host-entry in 2022, their journey to the biggest international stage is an intriguing one to keep an eye on. Broadcasters include Kenny Albert, Brian Boucher, and Anson Carter. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. The job sees her monitor the development of prospects in the WHL from her home base in Calgary, and work with Maple Leafs and AHL Marlies players on the ice a few times a month in Toronto. I believe she can be asset to any broadcast team. Presented by @SecretDeodorant. However, it took Hextall being laid off and pivoting to a career in politics before she reinvented herself and began her pursuit to become a professional play-by-play commentator. It can mean she calls the shots in a broadcast booth or a boardroom. Gender has nothing to do with it. Their impact on the game can be seen throughout the NHL in every powerful, finely tuned stride theyve helped build. In 1956, a nine-year-old named Abby Hoffman had to cut her hair and trim her name so teammates and opponents wouldnt know Ab was actually a girl. Hextall is no stranger to ESPN either, as she joined their coverage of the Frozen Four in 2019 and became the first woman to call a national championship game. With the new deals come new opportunities. If you tuned in to the Womens Elite 3-on-3 Game during All-Star Weekend, you witnessed another piece of history when the foursome worked the game. Her grandfather, Bryan Hextall Sr., is a Hall of Famer who was a major contributor for the Rangers in their 1940 Stanley Cup conquest. A powerful force on and off the ice, Team Canadas @nursey16 knows the importance of representation and is inspiring young kids everywhere to get into the game. She is living proof of what can happen when you give an elite athlete the stage she deserves. (Though perhaps it didnt register, since a good sign of strong officiating is going unnoticed.) Fact Sheet; ESPN Plaza Fact Sheet; James Pitaro, Chairman, ESPN and Sports Content; ESPN Front Row; ESPN Images; ESPN History. The following is a list of current (entering 2022-23 NHL season) National Hockey League broadcasters.With 25 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 . Live Events and Commentators by sport; Live and Same-Day Schedule by date; Daily Programming Schedule; Search Schedules; About. NBC Sports has determined Kate Scott, AJ Mleczko, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Kathryn Tappen and Jennifer Botterill possess the requisite speaking skills and NHL knowledge to handle one of its NHL. Encouraged by legendary NHL broadcaster Mike "Doc" Emrick and the first female colour commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, both of whom she had worked with while in previous hosting roles, she began refining her announcing skills. "They looked at . Secondly, this should help pave the way for more women to pursue careers in broadcasting. SHES THE GOAT when it comes to womens hockey in the United States, having put a face and a name (and a gold medal) to so many young hockey-loving girls dreams back in 1998, and now the Hall-of-Famer and broadcaster is lending her expertise to a new area of the game as a pro scout with Seattles expansion franchise, the first woman to hold such a position in the NHL. Kind of feels like Dempseys Pride and Thunstroms Whitecaps are on a crash course set for the Isobel Cup Final, doesnt it? The group is led by veteran play-by-play broadcasters Sean McDonough and Steve Levy along with former players like NHL Hall of Famer Mark Messier and U.S. Olympic gold-medalist Hillary Knight. ITS BEEN ALMOST a year since Jayna Hefford sent shockwaves through the hockey world by announcing the closure of the Canadian Womens Hockey League after 12 seasons, citing an unsustainable business model. (@natspooner5) pic.twitter.com/THnWP8edJY. It wasnt lost on me how much courage it was going to take to be completely vulnerable in a room full of mostly men. With back-to-back golden goals on the Olympic stage in 2010 and 2014 (and nearly another in 2018), Poulins name was already written into the history books, but since shes shown it should be there in all-caps. ~ Aaron Wilbur, Coaches Site Founder, If you want to wake up your audience to take a chance and live up to their potential, Leah's captivating keynote is sure to deliver. Shes now a consultant with the Calgary Flames and continues coaching some of the best prospects and pros during the off-season. Rylans recruited and lost big-name players, kept her doors open when the Canadian Womens Hockey League closed and shuttered its own, signed a lucrative deal with Twitch to broadcast games online thats brought in six million views this season, sold-out rinks, introduced a revolutionary revenue-sharing system, and stuck by her guns and stood strong in the face of the PWHPAs efforts to advocate for one league a league not named the NWHL. Next, select your favourite teams and leagues and well show you their latest news and scores in the My Favourites section of the home page. That a 32-year-old woman from Tampa Bay built a league from scratch and has kept it afloat for five years is an incredible display of power in hockey. Play-by-play commentators often feel like friends to us all. Her actions with Bauer Hockey also show that theres a corporate appetite for advocacy, and that supporting women is a smart business plan, too. She grew up in Toronto, Canada and has loved sports all her life. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. CASSIE CAMPBELL. Jackie Redmond Age, Early Life, Family, and Education Background. NHL broadcasters have. Overview; ESPN Milestones; ESPN's . If there is one thing you dont do in hockey, its speak out. The two-time Olympian is a strong representation of what it means to be an athlete today. It's 2020 and hockey fans are diversifying. She knows that in order to lead, you must listen and thats exactly what shes doing with NHL Power Players, a recently created program that enlists the help of 13- to 17-year-olds from all areas and backgrounds in North America to spark ideas for how the league can best serve an audience that increasingly follows individual athletes instead of teams. Just go ahead and put her in the Hall of Fame, already. Browning is always on the hunt for new ways to market the game and to reach and keep new and younger audiences. Presented by @SecretDeodorant. Shes not waiting idly. Theres still a long way to go when it comes to bringing more women into stats roles, but Chayka is lending her voice to the cause. She and I work like partners because we own equal share in the success, Packer says of her and Rylan. If someone says, I met the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, someone will automatically assume that its a man, says Dennis. Hextall is part of a hockey lineage that begins with her grandfather, Bryan Hextall who is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. SINCE SHE WALKED into a nearly empty office last July, Alexandra Mandrycky, the first front-office hire in Seattles hockey operations department, has been building the foundation of the NHLs newest team and surrounding herself with a smart, diverse group of talented hockey professionals. Need Photos? Build your customFanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis onAll NHL and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. WHETHER YOU DREAM of going pro or are just looking to keep making it out to a weekly game of shinny, youre benefiting from the work of Mary-Kay Messier. With an outstanding core of young position players, the Blue Jays needed to do one thing this winter: shore up the pitching staff. And therein lies what truly makes them powerful figures, particularly in the coming months: The path theyve chosen presents to many a third option in what has very much felt like a two-party standoff in the womens hockey world. Says Nurse: When you see somebody who looks like you or who you want to be like in a position of authority or a position of power or a position that you ultimately want to be in, you gain that confidence and you really do think that you can do it.. Blake Bolden and Leah Hextall join Emily Kaplan in reporting roles for ESPN, while Cassie Campbell-Pascall, A.J. Im waiting for that assumption to just not pop up in someones mind.. Spooners 37,800 Twitter followers and 66,800 Instagram followers make her one of the most-followed womens hockey players, and her presence in and around the game has also made her a strong brand ambassador for a long list of sponsors. I had the opportunity to work with her in my role as performance trainer with Rogers SN NHL. Mleczko, a former U.S. women's national team standout, was hired this season to do about 20 Islanders broadcasts on MSG Network. Shes come in so clutch for us this year I think if you can put up 100 points in four-and-a-half seasons, playing only a very limited amount of hockey games, that just shows shes a great hockey player. Itll be an important part of the future of hockey. That many hockey fans now know her by her voice alone is a testament to the power she holds in the game, but her commentary isnt the only way shes helping call the shots. Should the NHL step in and form a WNHL, as the PWHPA hopes, Cohig would very likely be heavily involved in its launch, too. This is huge for several reasons. Cassie Campbell-Pascall on Marie-Philip Poulin She is horrible. Nurse & Spooner interacting before the 3 on 3 game is the wholesome content everyone deserves to see today, Spooner youre here pic.twitter.com/rRdJuyGXAk, Alyssa Turner (@aturnz11) February 8, 2020, EVERYONE HEARD BOB COLE and Harry Neale for years, says Cassie Campbell-Pascall. n July 23, NBC Sports Philadelphia will welcome home Taryn Hatcher, a Delran, N.J. native and graduate of Rutgers University who will join our family as a multi-platform host and reporter. BERRY AND TURBO | TEAM CHINA DEFENDER AND FORWARD Her U.S. teammate, defender Megan Bozek, joined the team in November. This past hockey season, Sophia had a [] Too many female politicians do it and too many female sports announcers do it to "copy" their male counterparts. ~ Bill Graff, ESPN Sr. Coordinating Producer, We had Leah as our keynote speaker for our Junior A Hockey Sportsmans Dinner - she was amazing! Analyst. 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