Education
University of Western Ontario.
University of Western Ontario.
She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Simpson was the Marketing Manager at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario for several years and the first in-arena host for the Toronto Maple Leafs, before making the move to broadcasting. Her first network television job was with Rogers Sportsnet (previously known as CTV Sportsnet) when the Canadian sports channel launched in 1998.
She spent 10 years with the network as a hockey features reporter, profiling the National Hockey League’s top players and personalities, and as the host of “Showtime with Chris Simpson” segments which featured entertainment & sports stories.
She has also been a rinkside reporter for National Hockey League broadcasts in the United States with American Broadcasting Company, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and Versus (previously known as OLN). She was the host of “Captains,” a weekly show profiling National Hockey League team captains on the National Hockey League Network in the United States and Canada.
Simpson has also been a “Hockey Insider” with the Bill Watters Show on AM640 Radio in Toronto, Ontario. During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she was the host of “Centre Ice with Chris Simpson” at Molson Canadian Hockey House.
On October 19, 2010, it was announced that Simpson joined regional sports network MSG Plus as a host for the New Jersey Devils broadcast team
On September 6, 2011, Simpson re-joined Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto as their hockey features reporter. In 2010, Simpson made her feature-film début in Saw 3D. She played talk-show host Donna Evans. She is the daughter of former Canadian Olympic athlete Marion Simpson.
Simpson is the younger sister of former CHL Player-of-the-Year and New York Islanders" draft pick Dave Simpson and the older sister of two-time Stanley Cup champion, and former Edmonton Oilers" forward, Craig Simpson, who is currently an analyst with Hockey Night in Canada on Canadian Broadcasting Company.
