Coyotes Announce Strader as New TV Play-By-Play Announcer

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Phoenix
Coyotes President and COO Douglas Moss announced
that Dave Strader has signed a multi-year
contract to join the Coyotes broadcast team as the club’s new television
play-by-play announcer.

Strader will be reunited in the broadcast booth with Coyotes’ television analyst
Darren Pang. The duo was paired together on NHL telecasts seen on ESPN and ABC
for several years. Strader and Pang also worked together during an NBC playoff
telecast this past season as well as on NHL Radio broadcasts of the Western
Conference Finals each of the last two seasons.

“We are extremely excited to bring in a broadcaster with the talent and
experience of Dave Strader,” said Moss. “The entertainment and chemistry that
Dave and Darren Pang have provided on national NHL telecasts for years will now
be a treat for Coyotes’ fans to see and hear on each of the team’s telecasts
for years to come. We believe we have assembled the best broadcast team in the
league and their presence will not only be felt on FSN Arizona and AZ-TV, but
with our fans in the community throughout the Valley.”

“Dave will be a great addition to the FSN Arizona broadcast booth,” said Mike
Connelly, FSN Arizona Senior Vice President & General Manager. “With him
working alongside Darren Pang and Todd Walsh, I feel we now have the best
broadcast team in the NHL.”

“I am excited on so many levels about joining the Phoenix Coyotes
broadcast team,” said Strader. “I know we will all work towards the common goal
of making Coyote broadcasts among the best in the NHL.”

For the last two seasons, Strader has provided play-by-play calls of NHL
telecasts on both NBC and Versus (OLN in 2005-06), describing regular season
games and playoff contests. He provided hockey play-by-play commentary at the
2006 Winter Olympic Games in

Torino for NBC.
Strader also served as television play-by-play announcer for the Florida
Panthers the last two seasons.

Strader was a play-by-play announcer for NHL telecasts on ESPN from 1996
through 2004. He also provided play-by-play for the NHL All-Star Game and Stanley
Cup Finals for NHL International broadcasts. Strader’s NHL experience also
includes announcing for national ABC and FOX network telecasts and 11 seasons
as the television play-by-play voice for the Detroit Red Wings beginning in
1985.

Strader, a native of upstate

New York,
began his broadcasting career with the Adirondack Red Wings of the American
Hockey League (AHL), serving as the team’s radio announcer and public relations
director from 1979 to 1985. Twice honored by the New York Broadcasters Association
for excellence in play-by-play broadcasting, he was also named the AHL’s top
public relations professional in 1984.

While hockey has been his primary focus, Strader has also called men’s and
women’s college basketball games as well as WNBA and NBDL games for ESPN.

Strader earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies at the

University of

Massachusetts while working at the
college radio station for four years.

He and his wife Colleen have three sons: Christopher and twins Casey and
Trevor.