NHL Broadcasting Training Camp – Good Or Bad Idea?

from Adam Kimelman of the NHL's website, Erik Johnson and Garnet Hathaway each signed contracts with the Philadelphia Flyers on July 1. But they've also spent time preparing for something beyond the upcoming NHL season. Johnson and Hathaway were two of the nine current and recently retired players who took part in the first NHL Broadcast Training Camp at the NHL offices in Manhattan on July 17. The all-day event featured modules geared toward game preparation and study, reporting, studio work, and social media and podcasting, with instruction from TNT lead play-by-play voice Kenny Albert and analysts Eddie Olczyk and Brian Boucher, ESPN studio host and play-by-play voice Steve Levy, and Philadelphia Flyers studio host Ashlyn Sullivan. "The more years that I've been playing and knowing that inevitably I'm going to stop playing at some point, I don't think there's any problem with trying to figure out what interests me after hockey," Hathaway said. The 32-year-old signed a two-year, $4.8 million contract ($2.4 million average annual value) that begins with the 2025-26 season. "I think the big thing for me is, will it be in hockey or will it not be? So, this is an awesome opportunity to see what the other side is." continued