- Four-time Olympic medallist Cassie Campbell-Pascall joins Hailey Salvian and host Andi Petrillo for pre- and post-game panel analysis
- Play-by-play and analysis to be provided by Daniella Ponticelli and four-time Olympic medallist Becky Kellar, with Rob Pizzo serving as rinkside reporter
CBC today announced the broadcast team for Hockey Night in Canada, presented by Canadian Tire. Bringing together an accomplished lineup of hockey players, journalists and broadcasters, CBC's coverage of the upcoming 2026-27 PWHL season will offer expert insight, analysis and storytelling. The action begins Saturday, December 5 at 7 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBC TV and CBC Gem with the first women’s hockey game to be featured on Hockey Night in Canada.
Leading CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada studio coverage is host Andi Petrillo, joined by four-time Olympic medallist Cassie Campbell-Pascall and The Athletics’ Hailey Salvian. The trio will be in-studio for pre- and post-game coverage and between periods, breaking down the biggest plays, key storylines and defining moments from around the league.
The in-game broadcast team features Daniella Ponticelli on play-by-play, three-time Olympic gold medallist Becky Kellar providing analysis, and sportscaster Rob Pizzo reporting rinkside.
Daytime coverage will be hosted by CBC Sports’ Anastasia Bucsis with former professional hockey player Saroya Tinker joining Hailey Salvian as in-studio analyst. Matt Cullen will share play by play duties with Daniella Ponticelli, and Signa Butler will serve as rinkside reporter.
Meet CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada broadcast team:
Andi Petrillo – Host
The host of CBC Sports Primetime, Petrillo is an award-winning sportscaster with more than two decades of experience. The first woman to join the Hockey Night in Canada studio team full-time, she is a three-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Sports Host and the first woman to receive the George Gross-Don Goodwin Award. In 2026, she was inducted into the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame. Petrillo has hosted seven Olympic Games for CBC, as well as coverage of the PWHL since the league’s inaugural season.
Cassie Campbell-Pascall – Panellist
One of the most decorated players in Canadian hockey history, Campbell-Pascall is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, an Olympic silver medallist and an eight-time World Champion. She is the only Canadian captain, male or female, to captain two Olympic gold medal-winning teams, and made history as the first woman to provide colour commentary on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. She was the first female hockey player inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the first woman appointed to the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
Hailey Salvian – Panellist
A senior women's hockey writer at The Athletic, Salvian delivers in-depth reporting and analysis across the PWHL, and international competition. She has been part of CBC's PWHL coverage since the league's inaugural season, spending the past three seasons as a studio analyst, and has been part of CBC’s hockey coverage for the past two Olympic Winter Games. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism, Salvian began her broadcasting career at CBC as an intern at CBC Toronto before moving into television reporting at CBC Regina.
Daniella Ponticelli – Play-by-Play Commentator
Since calling the inaugural PWHL Game on Jan. 1, 2024, Ponticelli has called more of the league’s games than any other play-by-play announcer, with her 100th game expected in December. She currently provides commentary across three professional women's sports leagues: the PWHL, Northern Super League and WNBA, including broadcasts for the Toronto Tempo. She is also a two-time, multi-sport Olympic Games broadcaster, most recently calling women's hockey for Milano Cortina 2026.
Becky Kellar – Analyst
A four-time Olympian and three-time Olympic gold medallist, Kellar has provided colour commentary for PWHL broadcasts since 2024, and was part of CBC’s Olympic Games coverage for Milano Cortina 2026. As an athlete, she made her debut at Nagano 1998, where she and Team Canada captured silver at the inaugural Olympic women's hockey tournament. In 2012, Kellar was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame as a member of the Turin 2006 Canadian women’s gold medal winning hockey team.
Rob Pizzo – Rinkside Reporter
A sports reporter with more than two decades of experience, Pizzo has covered men's and women's hockey at all levels, including serving as rinkside reporter for Hockey Night in Canada and as host of Hockey Night in Canada Radio. He has been part of the PWHL’s coverage since the league's inaugural season, including rinkside reporting for the Walter Cup Finals. He has also contributed to CBC's Olympic Games coverage as both a reporter and host.
Audiences looking for pro-hockey insight combined with off-ice entertainment can check out House Rules, launching Wednesday, November 25 on CBC Gem. After spending the PWHL’s inaugural season as roommates, besties Emma Maltais and Maggie Connors find themselves on new teams, playing on opposite sides of the continent. Now playing in Montréal and San Jose, they reconnect biweekly to host CBC Sports’ new digital series where they share unfiltered conversations ranging from hockey and culture, to fashion and behind-the-scenes stories from some of the biggest personalities in the sport.
CBC’s coverage of the 2026-27 PWHL season features more games than ever before, with English-language coverage for 26 PWHL games throughout the regular season, including eight Hockey Night in Canada Saturday primetime games. Radio-Canada’s French-language coverage will see every Montréal Victoire game on La soirée du hockey national radio show on Radio-Canada Ohdio, including select games on ICI PREMIÈRE, and television coverage, of six regular season games and the All-Star Game on ICI TÉLÉ and ICI TOU.TV, presented by Canadian Tire. For CBC’s complete PWHL schedule, please visit: cbcsports.ca
Since 2019, CBC/Radio-Canada has been a world leader with a commitment to equal coverage of women’s and men’s sports across all platforms. As rights holders of the PWHL, NSL and hundreds of hours of women’s sport content, this commitment continues to grow as part of the expanded coverage of Canada’s athletes and high-performance sport. The return of Hockey Night in Canada with the PWHL is a reflection of this commitment.
About CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada
The world’s longest-running sports program, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada has broadcast play-by-play coverage of professional ice hockey on radio and television for 90 consecutive seasons. Canada’s first national hockey radio broadcast launched in 1931 as the General Motors Hockey Broadcast. The broadcast was given the iconic Hockey Night in Canada name as one of the founding programs of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation when the national public broadcaster was formed in 1936. When CBC Television was launched in 1952, the program became a Saturday night viewing tradition for hockey lovers across Canada. Hockey Night in Canada was simulcast on CBC Radio until 1965.
About CBC/Radio-Canada
CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada's national public broadcaster. Through our mandate to inform, enlighten and entertain, we play a central role in strengthening Canadian culture. As Canada's trusted news source, we offer a uniquely Canadian perspective on news, current affairs and world affairs. Our distinctively homegrown entertainment and sports programming draws audiences from across the country. Deeply rooted in communities, CBC/Radio-Canada offers diverse content in English, French and eight Indigenous languages: Dëne Sųłıné, Dene Kǝdǝ́, Dene Zhatıé, Eastern Cree, Dinjii Zhuʼ Ginjik, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłı̨chǫ. We also deliver content in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Punjabi and Tagalog, as well as both official languages, through Radio Canada International (RCI). We are leading the transformation to meet the needs of Canadians in a digital world.
