ESPN hires Boucher, Ferraro for NHL jobs

The future sound of the Stanley Cup is coming into focus as ABC/ESPN has made two new hires.

ABC/ESPN has signed Ray Ferraro to be one of its top analysts when its coverage begins next season, The Post has learned.

Ferraro will be part of its Stanley Cup coverage and could be its top game analyst, according to sources.

Meanwhile, Brian Boucher is leaving NBC to join ABC/ESPN as another lead analyst, according to sources.

ESPN declined comment.

ABC/ESPN has yet to finalize a lead Stanley Cup play-by-player. Steve Levy or Sean McDonough are viewed as the leading internal candidates, but nothing is known to have been decided yet so others could make a late run.

After NBC finishes up its package this year with Kenny Albert and Eddie Olczyk calling the Cup final, that duo will head over to TNT to call three of the ensuing seven Stanley Cups. ABC/ESPN will have the four others.

The 56-year-old Ferraro, the former Islander, Ranger and Hartford Whaler, is currently an analyst in Canada with TSN. Ferraro previously worked for ESPN on “NHL 2Night” with John Buccigross and Barry Melrose.

Boucher, 44, has been NBC’s “Inside The Glass” reporter for the Stanley Cup in recent years.