He’ll pair with color commentator Jim Fox for the matchup, as part of the reduced workload that Bob Miller agreed to this season.
Miller was expected to call only home games and a few select road games after undergoing quadruple bypass surgery last season.
In the wake of his mild stroke about a week ago, it’s unclear whether Miller will still call home games like originally planned, but this McDonald substitution isn’t related to the most recent Miller health scare, considering that it’s a road game.
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McDonald served as the very first play-by-play announcer for the Kings when they entered the NHL as an expansion team for the 1967 season.