SAN JOSE — San Jose Sharks fans will be seeing more of color analyst Drew Remenda this upcoming season. Literally.
With Bret Hedican leaving the Sharks’ broadcast booth earlier this summer to become a player development analyst with the San Diego Gulls, Remenda will now work full-time alongside play-by-play announcer Randy Hahn on the team’s television broadcasts on NBC Sports California.
In recent years, Remenda and Hedican had alternated between television and radio, working with both Hahn on television and fellow play-by-play voice Dan Rusanowsky on the Sharks Audio Network.
A combination of Sharks alumni will now work alongside Rusanowsky in the radio booth. Who those specific individuals will be this season has not yet been announced, but in recent years, along with Hedican and Remenda, Sharks alumni Scott Hannan and Mark Smith have also worked with Rusanowsky.
Hahn and Remenda worked together for years, first from 2000 to 2006 and then from 2007 to 2014 before the Sharks organization parted ways with Remenda. The former Sharks assistant coach wasn’t out of work for long as he became an analyst for Sportsnet on Edmonton Oilers broadcasts. Remenda then returned to the Sharks’ broadcast booth in 2021.
Hedican, who played 1,039 NHL games from 1992 to 2009 and won a Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006, had worked as a color analyst on Sharks broadcasts for 10 years.
Before joining the Sharks, Hedican, 54, worked for NBC Sports California as an in-studio analyst on pregame and postgame shows during Sharks broadcasts.
