Inside the NHL Broadcast Battle: Which 2025 Coverage Fans Can’t Stop Watching?
21. Columbus Blue Jackets
The Broadcast: The FanDuel Sports Network broadcast team in Columbus features play-by-play announcer Steve Mears and color analyst Jody Shelley.
Local score: 4.49 (19th)
National score: 2.84 (21st)
Last season rank: 30
The results: The Blue Jackets shot up our rankings a little in the first season without local legend Jeff Rimer, who had been in the Columbus play-by-play chair for 20 years and called more than 2,000 NHL games before retiring.
Mears, who was let go in Pittsburgh two years ago, has strong support in Columbus and is in part buoyed by the fact that he is paired with Shelley, the former CBJ enforcer who has become one of the stronger color analysts in the league.
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