Corridor of Fame hockey participant Mark Messier will likely be amongst the on-air expertise for Amazon’s new NHL broadcast. Andi Petrillo, who was host of CBC’s Olympic protection this previous summer season, may have identical function on Prime Monday Night Hockey.
2024 CBC Olympic host Andi Petrillo in identical function with Prime Monday Night Hockey
The Canadian Press
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Corridor of Fame hockey participant Mark Messier will likely be amongst the on-air expertise for Amazon’s new NHL broadcast.
Amazon has unveiled its plans for Prime Monday Night Hockey, which embody Messier working as an analyst for choose video games.
The printed workforce will even embody hosts Andi Petrillo, who was host for CBC throughout the 2024 Olympics, and Adnan Virk, who’s labored for TSN, ESPN and the MLB Community.
Evaluation will come from Blake Bolden, Thomas Hickey, Shane Hnidy and Jody Shelley, whereas play-by-play will likely be executed by former NHL on NBC expertise John Forslund.
Reveals will likely be broadcast dwell from the residence workforce’s enviornment, beginning Oct. 14 when the Montreal Canadiens host Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Bell Centre.
Alongside conventional pre-game, intermission and post-game segments, Prime Monday Night Hockey will embody an interactive function the place viewers who missed a part of the recreation can catch up by watching a two-minute spotlight package deal compiled by machine studying.
On Thursdays, Petrillo will host a studio present referred to as NHL Coast to Coast that includes highlights, professional evaluation and interviews with gamers, coaches and commentators.
Amazon additionally introduced Monday its six-part documentary FACEOFF: Inside the NHL will start streaming Oct. 4.
The collection options each on-ice and behind-the-scenes moments with a few of the league’s greatest stars, including Edmonton Oilers superstars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, Toronto Maple Leafs winger William Nylander, and Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes.
Amazon and Rogers Communications introduced again in April that the corporations had reached a deal that may see all nationwide regular-season Monday NHL video games in Canada streamed in English on Prime Video for the subsequent two seasons.