Prime Video announces hosting lineup for inaugural NHL season

Prime Video has unveiled the roster of hosts, play-by-play announcers, analysts and reporters who will helm its inaugural season of Prime Monday Night Hockey and NHL Coast to Coast.

Prime Monday Night Hockey will see the streaming service air regular season Monday night NHL games in English, beginning Monday, Oct. 14 as the Montreal Canadiens host the Pittsburgh Penguins. For the 2024-25 NHL regular season, Prime Monday Night Hockey will feature 21 games hosted by Canadian teams and also include a 2024 Stanley Cup Final rematch between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 16. All games will be produced by Amazon and stream live as part of a Prime membership.

Prime Monday Night Hockey will feature a rotating team of on-air talent led by veteran play-by-play announcer John Forslund, alongside analysts Jody Shelley, Thomas Hickey, and Shane Hnidy. Anchoring the Prime Monday Night sports desk from on-site will be Adnan Virk, Andi Petrillo, analyst Blake Bolden, and a mix of local guests throughout the season. Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier will be a contributor throughout the season, both on the desk and contributing vignettes.

Prime Monday Night Hockey will include pre-game, intermission, and post-game segments, and interactive feature, Rapid Recap, which allows those who join the game in-progress to catch up on the action they missed using machine learning to compile big plays and moments into a short two-minute highlights package. While viewing the rundown, viewers can either skip or rewatch big plays within the queue and jump to live action at any time.

Prime’s hockey offering also includes NHL Coast To Coast, a live, weekly whip-around studio show airing on Thursday nights in Canada, starting Oct. 10, featuring live look-ins, highlights and expert analysis of every NHL game that night. The show will be hosted by Petrillo and rotating analysts. The series will be produced live by NHL Productions, in collaboration with Prime Video, from the NHL Productions hub in Secaucus, New Jersey and various locations across Canada.

The streamer’s slate of sports content also includes the upcoming FACEOFF: Inside the NHL from Box To Box – the producers of Drive to Survive – that promises unprecedented access to some of the NHL’s most compelling players, at different stages of their careers, as they embark on the pursuit of the Stanley Cup. FACEOFF joins Game 7, a new five-part anthology series offering first-hand accounts from athletes that participated in high-stakes Game 7 showdowns.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working with the NHL since 2021 on their cloud-based content delivery system to facilitate the delivery of new in-game analytics and video highlights to enhance the fan experience. That includes the development of the NHL Edge IQ powered by AWS stats portfolio, which offers advanced analytics like Ice Tilt, Opportunity Analysis, Face-Off Probability, and Shot and Save Analytics, to give fans a better understanding of the action on the ice.

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