Blackhawks add new play-by-play announcer Rick Ball

CHICAGO, IL – The Chicago Blackhawks announced in June that Rick Ball has been named the club’s next television play-by-play announcer.

The Blackhawks report that Ball will join color analyst Darren Pang in the Blackhawks’ broadcast booth for the 2024-25 season, the team’s first on the forthcoming Chicago Sports Network, the new television home of the Blackhawks.

Ball, 57, joins the Blackhawks after spending the previous 10 seasons as the television play-by-play voice of the Calgary Flames on Sportsnet. During that time, Ball also served as play-by-play announcer for Hockey Night in Canada’s national broadcasts, a role he began in 2011 before being named the program’s lead Western play-by-play announcer in 2013, notes his bio.