Jamison Coyle: NHL Network Host, Hockey and Nashua

Jamison Coyle is a host on NHL Network, where he fronts NHL Tonight, and he played hockey well enough to win a state championship before broadcasting took over. Jamison Coyle grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, was a right winger on the 2002 state title team and a shortstop on the 2001 baseball title team, and reached the NHL Network by way of Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, and a job he did not get at NESN.

Fast facts: Jamison Coyle
Known for	Hosting NHL Tonight on NHL Network
Current role	Host, NHL Network
Employer	NHL Network
Hometown	Nashua, New Hampshire
Education	Syracuse University, where he worked at the campus station and interned at a local NBC affiliate
Previous roles	NESN, including NESN Daily and college hockey pre- and postgame coverage; stations in Dalton, Georgia, in Indiana and in Wichita, Kansas
Hockey connection	Played through high school. Right winger on Nashua’s 2002 state championship team

Who is Jamison Coyle?

Jamison Coyle is one of NHL Network’s studio hosts and the face of NHL Tonight, and the network named him on its 2026-27 on-air roster on 24 September 2026, alongside E.J. Hradek, Alexa Landestoy, Tony Luftman, Erika Wachter and Adnan Virk.

His assignments have run through the sport’s set pieces. His first for the network was a Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium, and he has since worked outdoor games, the Stanley Cup Final, the draft, All-Star weekends, and trade deadline shows.

What does Jamison Coyle do on NHL Tonight?

NHL Tonight is NHL Network’s nightly studio program, and Coyle hosts it: the show that takes an evening of games and turns it into a single sitting of highlights, news and analysis, with former players and insiders beside him at the desk. A host’s job there is to know every team equally rather than one team deeply, and to hand the right question to the right analyst while the night is still running.

He does not pretend it is hard to enjoy. He gets paid, he told his hometown paper, to watch the games he would be watching for free anyway.

Did Jamison Coyle play hockey?

Yes, and he won with it. Coyle started in organized hockey in New Hampshire at five or six years old, played through high school, and was a right winger on the Nashua team that won the 2002 state championship, beating St. Thomas in the final. He was also a shortstop on the 2001 state title baseball team and on the 2002 side that lost the final to Winnacunnet.

He is direct about where it ended. His playing talent ran out after high school, he told the Nashua Telegraph, and his passion for hockey did not. He still plays drop-in games at local rinks.

What is Jamison Coyle’s career?

Year	Role	Outlet
Student years	Campus station; intern at a local NBC affiliate	Syracuse University
One summer	Play-by-play	Mat-Su Miners, Palmer, Alaska
Early career	First television job	Station in Dalton, Georgia
Then	Television	Indiana
Then	Public relations, about three months	Boston
Then	Television	Wichita, Kansas
Then	Anchor; NESN Daily; college hockey pre- and postgame	NESN
Then	Host	NHL Network

Jamison Coyle’s route to a national hockey studio ran through four states and one failed interview. He went for NESN’s Bruins pre- and postgame host job, lost it to Dale Arnold, and was hired for NESN Daily instead, which is the job that put him in front of hockey every night.

His college hockey years at NESN also meant covering players before anyone outside New England knew them: Johnny Gaudreau, Jack Eichel and Connor Hellebuyck all came through Hockey East on his watch.

Where is Jamison Coyle from?

Nashua, New Hampshire. Coyle is a Nashua native and graduated from Nashua High School in 2002, which is the year of the hockey title, and the local paper still writes about him as one of its own. He went on to Syracuse University.

New England stayed in the work. His first NHL Network assignment was a Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium, and he hosted the pre- and postgame coverage when the Bruins played the Penguins at Fenway Park in 2023.