National Television Announcers For Panthers Series

     The national television announcing crews were revealed for the upcoming Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series between the Florida Panthers and the Boston Bruins. Contests will be split between the two national television carriers of the National Hockey League. 

     ESPN will carry the first two games of the series to be held at TD Garden in Boston. The broadcast will have their top announcing staff on the call. Sean McDonough will be the play-by-play announcer, Ray Ferraro handles the game analyst role and Emily Kaplan is the rinkside reporter. 

     McDonough, a Syracuse University grad, is in his second season as the lead hockey play-by-play voice at ESPN. Ferraro has worked several decades announcing contests on TSN Canadian television. Kaplan has worked as a writer for ESPN since 2017. 

     Turner Sports will broadcast Game 3 and Game 4 at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise. Jim Jackson, Jody Shelley and Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre will be the announcers. 

     Jackson, a Syracuse University grad, has been the Philadelphia Flyers television play-by-play announcer since 1995. He was the Flyers radio voice for two seasons prior to that. Shelley has been the television game analyst of the Columbus Blue Jackets since the 2014-15 campaign. Grand-Pierre has been a Columbus Blue Jackets television studio game analyst since 2019-20.