Recently retired Subban joining ESPN as analyst

After contributing during past season's Stanley Cup playoffs coverage, P.K. Subban has go a full-time subordinate of ESPN's hockey team.

Subban, who retired successful September, has signed a three-year statement with ESPN. He volition enactment chiefly arsenic a workplace expert but volition besides bash immoderate games during the season.

"I've known for a fewer weeks now. It's been pugnacious to person known what I was gonna bash that and conscionable benignant of support it adjacent to the chest. But I'm excited present that we're present here," Subban said. "I had done immoderate enactment past postseason and it was great. I enjoyed moving with the producers and everybody."

Subban, 33, added the opportunities of making appearances connected "First Take" and different ESPN programming during the playoffs was different origin successful the decision.

Subban played 13 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens, Nashville Predators and New Jersey Devils. He scored 467 points successful 824 regular-season games, including 115 goals. He won the Norris Trophy arsenic the league's apical defenseman successful 2013 with the Canadiens and reached the 2017 Stanley Cup Final with the Predators arsenic good arsenic being a three-time NHL All-Star selection.

Mark Gross, ESPN's elder vice president for accumulation and distant events, said Subban's summation adds adjacent much acquisition to the network's roster of analysts and reporters.

"P.K. brings a caller position to his analysis, having precocious retired from the game, but helium besides draws connected overmuch much than conscionable his acquisition connected the ice, which gives him a unique, amusive position that fans volition love," Gross said.

During his last play successful the league, Subban had already agreed to big "P.K.'s Places," which is simply a hockey mentation of the "Places" bid streaming connected ESPN+. That bid is acceptable to debut adjacent year.

Subban besides added that helium has had discussions with ESPN astir perchance being to subdivision retired into different areas of sports if the opportunities are there.

Subban said galore thought an announcement astir his aboriginal mightiness person travel sooner, but helium was taking clip to decompress portion assessing each his options.

"I'm excited to bring that passionateness and that vigor that I brought connected the crystal to thing other that I'm passionate about. I anticipation that they're conscionable arsenic excited arsenic I americium to get started," helium said. "The radical that travel and cognize maine cognize that I support honest. I'm gonna beryllium myself, and hopefully that's what they privation to see. I deliberation that's what radical are excited about."