'It is A Nice Day': Kenzie Lalonde To Name Play-By-Play For Ottawa Senators Video games In 2024-25

Weeks after Jessica Campbell had her first recreation as the primary lady full-time assistant coach in NHL historical past with the Seattle Kraken, TSN’s Kenzie Lalonde will probably be making historical past this season within the broadcasting world.

Lalonde will probably be within the TSN sales space Tuesday evening to name the Ottawa Senators street recreation towards the Toronto Maple Leafs. It’ll make Lalonde the primary lady to be a tv play-by-play announcer of an NHL workforce in Canada as a part of a rotating trio of Gord Miller and Matt Cullen.

Reactions poured in following the information, together with from Cheryl Pounder, the primary lady to be a coloration commentator in EA Sports activities’ NHL sequence, who can be a panellist and coloration commentator on TSN.

“It is an ideal day,” Pounder posted on X. “Kenzie is tremendous proficient, educated and ready. Kenz, you will be certain, though I am on the opposite facet of the printed tonight, I will probably be in your nook, dancing alongside ya!”

“Congrats Kenzie. Have an ideal recreation,” wrote Carlo Colaiacovo.

“Cannot look forward to extra individuals to learn how good you’re at this,” wrote Senators radio play-by-play announcer Dean Brown.

In 2020, fellow Canadian Leah Hextall grew to become the primary lady to name play-by-play for a nationally televised NHL recreation as a part of Sportsnet’s first all-female broadcast workforce. Hextall then joined NHL on ESPN as a play-by-play announcer for the 2021-22 season and is now employed for choose video games for play-by-play and rinkside reporting.

Lalonde isn’t any stranger to calling hockey video games. In 2021, she grew to become the primary lady to offer play-by-play protection for a televised QMJHL recreation when the Charlottetown Islanders visited the Halifax Mooseheads.

“At first, I didn’t suppose a lot of it, after which I noticed the chance I needed to pave the best way for extra ladies to pursue the function – it was simply unusual to me that I used to be the one doing the paving,” Lalonde told Faces Magazine about calling that game.

That was a springboard that led to her function in TSN’s broadcast protection of the 2021 ladies’s World Championship and CBC’s protection of girls’s hockey on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

As a product of Stittsville, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa, Lalonde grew up cheering for the Senators and performed for the Ottawa Woman Senators, so this can be a full-circle second for the 30-year-old broadcaster.

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