On Saturday night, Seth Hyde was the colour commentator for the ECHL game between the Newfoundland Growlers and the Trois-Rivières Lions. He's 14.
While Hyde tried to stay calm by treating the experience as no other than his usual commentary, Chris Ballard expected more people than usual to tune in because of the budding announcer.
"I've been kind of connected with Seth for the last couple of years as he has made his ascent into broadcasting. And we had a few holes open up in the booth here in the second half of the season and he was the first phone call we made," said Ballard. Seth Hyde, left, is introduced to the crowd at the Mary Brown's Centre in St. John's during the ECHL game between the Newfoundland Growlers and the Trois-Rivières Lions Saturday night. Hyde hopes the experience will help open doors to the NHL, for which he hopes to call games one day.
"It's the full package and to have that bundled together in an articulate 14-year-old, that's what's special about him." "Who knows, maybe there's other kids who say that they might want to get involved in something or take big risks."NHL Power PlayersSeth Hyde credits two items with his early interest in hockey and calling games — a toy hockey stick he used pretending to be a professional hockey player and a book with hockey statistics, gifted to him by his aunt and uncle when he was about four years old.
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