RALEIGH, NC – Don Waddell, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, in partnership with Bally Sports South, today announced the team’s television broadcasters and broadcast schedule for the 2021-22 season. Bally Sports South will carry two of the Hurricanes’ four preseason games and 74 of their 82 regular-season games in 2021-22. 

The Bally Sports South broadcast team will remain the same this season. Mike Maniscalco enters his second full season handling play-by-play duties, and former professional goaltender Tripp Tracy will provide analysis in his 23rd year in the broadcast booth. Abby Labar enters her second season as the in-game reporter and host of the network’s pre- and post-game flagship show, Hurricanes LIVE, where she will be joined by former Hurricanes player Shane Willis, now in his ninth year as an analyst.

In addition to the 74 games on Bally Sports South during the regular season, the Hurricanes’ two preseason games against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 9 will also be televised. A pair of Hurricanes games, against the Philadelphia Flyers on March 12 and the Dallas Stars on March 24, will be televised nationally, and six games will air exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu.

Bally Sports South – a Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned regional sports network – is the local destination for sports fans across the Southeast, producing 750+ live events while televising 2,600+ live events and studio shows annually. Home to the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Dream, Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta United, Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte Hornets, Memphis Grizzlies, Nashville Predators and Atlantic Coast Conference, the networks are widely distributed across Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Game telecasts can also be streamed at www.ballysports.com and in the Bally Sports app.