ESPN's top NHL playbyman has not yet gotten one shift.
Sean McDonough has not been called the network's single game this year, despite having originally been planned. As recorded by a terrible announcement.
The latest switch came on Thursday as Team USA beat Finland 6-1 in the 4 Nations face-off opener, with ESPN saying Jets Radio play announcer Bob Wishsen at the back of the game on Thursday. It has been announced. A terrible announcement.
ESPN hopes to the outlet that McDonough is fighting the flu, that led to a swap and that he is ready to call Saturday's fight Team USA and Canada at 8pm.
McDonough will also call the Fornations Face Off Championship Game on February 20th at 8pm.
As the NHL media tracker pointed out, the 62-year-old appears to have been battling the illness for quite some time, as his health has missed two ABC games in the past two weeks. XX's @braylonbreeze.
Breeze emphasized that Mike Monaco replaced McDonough in each of these two games, with Monaco saying McDonough was “under the weather.”
McDonough also missed the Panthers' 6-4 victory over the Bruins at the NHL season opener since Hurricane Milton affected his trip.
These health concerns even go back to last year's playoffs.
He had to be replaced by a 2-1 overtime victory over the Rangers over the Panthers that ESPN had “labeled” in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals on May 24th.disease. ”
McDonough then fought through illness to call the Panthers' victory over the Oilers in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final, but it became very clear to listeners that he was fighting something.
“Shaun is under the weather and I'm grateful that he pushed him through last night.” ESPN's Mark Gross was making a terrible announcement at the time.. “He's a perfect professional and one of the best play commentators in the business, and we're lucky to be able to bring him to our team.”
McDonough has been with ESPN since 1989 and has also called on par 3 contests for the network family of college football, college basketball, PGA Championship and Masters. According to his company's biographies.
He became the network's Play-by-Play announcer in 2021.
The 4 Nations showdown took a day break on Friday and returned with a doubleheader on Saturday.
