Devante Smith-Pelly is adding another TV gig to his resume.<\/p>\n
Monday, the NHL Network announced that they hired the former Washington Capitals forward as a studio analyst.<\/p>\n
Smith-Pelly\u2019s first appearance will come on NHL Tonight: First Shift at 4 pm (EST) alongside EJ Hradek. He\u2019s also scheduled to be on\u00a0NHL Tonight on Tuesday, November 4, at 9 pm (EST) with Tony Luftman and Bruce Boudreau, and on Wednesday, November 5, at 10 pm (EST) with Jamison Coyle and Mike Johnson.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlayers always gravitate to NHL Network when they\u2019re playing to check out what\u2019s going on around the league,\u201d Smith-Pelly said in a statement. \u201cSo, to fast-forward and now have a chance to join the crew and share my experiences and my perspective from the ice to fans across the world is an opportunity I\u2019m extremely excited about. I can\u2019t wait to get started on all the different shows and give my perspective of the current game as I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith-Pelly is just the latest former player to share his insights, joining former NHLers Pat Maroon and Nate Thompson, who made their debuts earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Smith-Pelly played eight seasons in the NHL for the Anaheim Ducks (2011-2015), Montreal Canadiens (2015-2016), New Jersey Devils (2016-2017), and Washington Capitals (2017-2019). DSP was a member of the Capitals\u2019 Stanley Cup team in 2018, scoring the game-tying goal in Game 5 \u2014 the same night they became champions.<\/p>\n
DSP will also continue to make appearances on Monumental Sports Network, where he has been a contributor to the Capitals\u2019 pre- and postgame shows.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devante Smith-Pelly is adding another TV gig to his resume. Monday, the NHL Network announced that they hired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-270776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}