Former Bowling Green State University hockey announcer Everett Fitzhugh has been hired by the Seattle Kraken, the NHL's expansion team, as its play-by-play man.
Fitzhugh has been the announcer and director of broadcasting for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL for the last five years.
Fitzhugh, 31, becomes the first full-time black team broadcaster in the history of the NHL.
“Reaching the NHL has been my goal, and to be able to come in on the ground floor with an expansion NHL team like the Seattle Kraken is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I am excited and ready for,” Fitzhugh said in a press release.