TSN's Kenzie Lalonde on what it was like calling Olympic hockey in Milan and the growth of the PWHL
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Episode 600 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Kenzie Lalonde, the bureau reporter in Montreal for TSN (Canada) as well as one of the PWHL's lead broadcasters. Lalonde recently called the Olympic women's hockey gold medal game for the CBC. In this podcast, Lalonde discusses her recently concluded assignment as the lead play-by-play voice for the women's Olympic hockey tournament for CBC; the hockey setup in Milan; where the U.S. stands as a women's hockey program compared to the Canadians; calling PWHL games; where the PWHL is right now in its evolution; what she expects heading forward regarding job prospects for women who want to work in hockey media; her work as TSN’s bureau reporter in Montreal for three seasons, primarily responsible for covering the Canadiens and Alouettes; the Canadiens playoff prospects, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:29.6 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm your host, Richard Deich. |
| 0:32.3 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:37.0 | One guest on this episode, but someone I'm looking forward to talking to because I haven't had an |
| 0:39.1 | opportunity, having worked for the CBC for three weeks as I did during the Olympics, to talk about |
| 0:46.4 | what the impact of the women's hockey tournament, which was phenomenal, will be on the |
| 0:52.3 | PWHL heading forward. |
| 0:57.0 | No better person to bring on than Kenzie Balloned. |
| 1:04.8 | She just completed her assignment as the lead play-by-play voice for the Women's Olympic Hockey Tournament for CBC. |
| 1:06.0 | Did a phenomenal job. |
| 1:09.9 | Away from that, she's TSN's Bureau reporter in Montreal. |
| 1:11.7 | She's done that for three seasons, |
| 1:16.6 | primarily responsible for covering the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Alouettes. |
| 1:21.3 | For those of you who are in the U.S. TSN, sort of your ESPN equivalent, they're actually business partners. And that's why a lot of people in Canada get to see ESPN programming on TSN. |
| 1:28.6 | Kenzie also calls games for the PWHL. |
| 1:32.6 | She's called CFL games. |
| 1:34.9 | And she calls Ottawa Senators games. |
| 1:38.4 | And in fact, has a series of firsts under her first woman in TSN history to to do play by play for a televised n hl game |
| 1:46.4 | which he called the um uh senators and the maple leaves in november of 2024 and she's also the |
| 1:53.8 | first female n hl play by play voiced assigned to call games for a team on television in canada |
| 1:59.6 | and that's her current work with the |
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