HARTFORD, Conn. — A new cluster of fans is tuning in to playoff hockey with its exciting games and series and star players unfolding on ESPN, TNT and ABC. Ratings are high, up 15% from the pre-pandemic playoffs of 2019, setting records during the first round.
All this bodes well for the NHL’s new television arrangement, and in the middle of it is Ray Ferraro, the Whalers’ slick winger in another lifetime, now the lead analyst for playoff telecasts.
“My role is to provide some ‘why’ as to what’s happening,” Ferraro said during the off-day between Games 3 and 4 of the Rangers-Hurricanes series. “Everybody’s got a television and they can see what’s happening, my thought is to try to use my experience from playing and from being around the game to explain why it happened. I love the game and I’ve been around it a long time, and I hope that comes across.”
