Inside the NHL Broadcast Battle: Which 2025 Coverage Fans Can’t Stop Watching?
5. Edmonton Oilers
The Broadcast: Sportsnet carries Oilers games, with Jack Michaels on play-by-play and Louie DeBrusk on color.
Local score: 4.77 (12th)
National score: 3.39 (4th)
Last season rank: 7
The results: Few broadcast teams have seen a glow-up as dramatic as the Oilers since the pandemic. Just look at how they’ve risen in year-over-year rankings since 2020: 26th, 16th, 17th, eighth, seventh and now fifth.
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Michaels’ hiring in 2021 has been the key catalyst behind this meteoric rise. He’s arguably the most electric, high-energy play-by-play caller in the entire sport, with the rare ability to make a game in late November feel as important as Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. A small minority of fans find Michaels’ delivery “over the top,” but broadly speaking, his style is overwhelmingly popular, both locally and nationally.
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