Jason Shaya

TV/Radio Broadcaster, Director of Communications

Jason Shaya joined the Comets in January of 2021. 

A Detroit native who had voiced the Charlotte Checkers since 2007, Shaya grew up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC and attending games at Joe Louis Arena. He began his hockey career in the United Hockey League with the Motor City Mechanics and then the Chicago Hounds before moving on to Charlotte in the ECHL and the AHL where he was part of the 2019 Calder Cup Championship. For three seasons, Shaya filled in on NHL television for the Carolina Hurricanes in the absence of broadcaster, John Forslund. Since joining the Comets, Shaya has stepped into the radio booth for the New Jersey Devils filling in on the Devils Radio Network. He also calls games on Spalk TV for the Champions Hockey League, the pan-European hockey tournament awarded to the top team in European hockey.

Shaya enters the Comets organization having broadcast over 1,000 hockey games. 

Shaya's broadcasting career started with World Championship Wrestling at the age of 17. He went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in radio and television communications from Madonna University and a broadcasting degree from Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts. Afterwards, he went on to become a sports producer for WDIV TV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit.