The NHL’s viewership struggles are continuing into 2025. After the league got off to a poor start to the season, seeing a steep 39% year-over-year decline in Opening Night viewership, then ...

McDonough, who has been with ESPN since 1989, was named the NHL on ESPN's lead play-by-play announcer in 2021. The color analyst is former NHL center Ray Ferraro. Ferraro also joined ESPN's NHL ...

On social media throughout the first round of the NHL’s 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, there have been many suggestions of both ESPN and TNT Sports using remote announcers and/or remote production.