Leah Hextall will be the first woman to do play-by-play as a regular part of a national NHL TV package after agreeing to a deal with ESPN, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.
Hextall was the first woman to announce the NCAA men's hockey tournament for ESPN in 2019. She was also the first woman in Canada to call a national NHL broadcast for SportsNet.
She was recently picked to cover the regional games for ESPN on the road to the 2021 men's Frozen Four.
Hextall has been broadcasting games for 17 years and comes from a hockey background.