As Washington’s ECHL affiliate, the South Carolina Stingrays, gets set to play the Allen Americans in Game 7 of the Kelly Cup finals on Sunday, one person – or voice, for that matter – has stood out, especially among fairweather fans rooting for the last-standing Caps-affiliated team to take home a championship.
The play-by-play voice of the Stingrays, Joseph Zakrzewski,is working his first Kelly Cup Finals, and it’s Game 7. It doesn’t get any better than that in hockey, and it’ll easily be the biggest moment of Zakrzewski’s broadcasting career so far.
“He’s a great young announcer, very detailed in his preparation, love the energy he brings to the call,” Caps radio voice John Walton said of Zakrzewski, after spending time himself in Charleston for games 4, 5 and 6 of the series.