HNIC will air in the US on the NHL Network… Unlike Center ICE in the US, these games will be in Hi-Def!
This is the best news of this early season for those of y’all in the States.
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Hockey Night in Canada, the creme de la creme of hockey on TV and a treasure of this sport, will air this season not only on the great CBC, but the NHL Network as well in America. Any of you who are fortunate enough to know the joy of watching this incredible broadcast know, and to all others you are in for a treat! A true treat.
Hockey Night in Canada is Sports on TV’s version of Art.
Every Saturday night, NHL Network will not only broadcast
the live Hockey Night In Canada double-header, but also the CBC pre-game show Scotiabank Hockey Tonight and post-game show After Hours.
And yes of course, the best few minutes in all of hockey punditry…Don Cherry’s “Coach’s Corner.”
Regular-season coverage on NHL Network gets underway in the U.S. on Saturday, Oct. 4 when the New York Rangers take on the Tampa Bay Lightning in Prague, Czech Republic and the Ottawa Senators and Pittsburgh Penguins meet in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Bridgestone NHL Premiere 2008™.
Additional highlights for the 2008-09 NHL broadcast schedule include:
Live NHL games every Saturday night throughout the season 26 double-headers and 1 triple-header 17 Wednesday-night games featuring TSN’s broadcast of Wednesday Night Hockey
5 games featuring the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings
7 games featuring the Pittsburgh Penguins and Sidney Crosby
2 games featuring the Washington Capitals and last season’s Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin
5 original NHL Network game productions
“NHL Network is an important platform in super-serving our fans with
the hockey content they demand, 24 hours a day,” said John Shannon, NHL Executive Vice President of Broadcasting and Programming. “With top-quality production of marquee match-ups on a consistent schedule, in addition to new original programming, NHL Network is creating appointment television for hockey fans nationwide.”
NHL Network is the first 24-hour network dedicated to the National
Hockey League with unprecedented access to the most comprehensive hockey coverage both on and off the ice. In addition to live NHL games, NHL Network will broadcast live college hockey and the Memorial Cup. The network also airs post-game press conferences, special event programming on-location from NHL events such as NHL Winter Classic™, NHL All-Star weekend, NHL Entry Draft and the Stanley Cup™ Final and its signature daily live highlight show – NHL on the Fly – which airs nightly throughout the hockey season.
NHL Network is now accessible to more than 80 million homes through
all of its carriage arrangements, including those with Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network® and Time Warner Cable. NHL Network launched in the U.S in October of 2007 and in Canada in 2001. This is the second season NHL Network will broadcast live NHL games in the U.S.
boneyard ham
March 12, 2010 at 5:29 pm
That is good news. To bad it it just a channel that only a minute handful of people will actually see because it is part of the Centre Ice package in the States. But I guess it is a step in the right direction.
J.O'-top contributor of B.S
March 12, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Woooo-Hooooo, that’s great news I’m happy as a pig in Schlitz to hear that,The NHL. network came on DirecTv last year and it was a great surprise, now that they stepped up my $175.oo a month Sat. bill is well, well worth it.
Edit: I don’t have center ice, but still get NHL. Network.
The Big Box
March 12, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Don’t get Center ice, don’t get Versus, Don’t get NHL network. However, Being close to the Canadian Border I do get CBC.
So meh.
Howler-The Best Damn NHL Mascot
March 12, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Very Cool indeed. However, I can find plenty of sports bars in AZ that will carry the hockey games(even on CBC), so I’ll just go and watch whatever I feel like seeing when I’m in the mood to have a good meal and drink at a bar. Just as long as none of the other Arizona teams aren’t in the playoffs, which is quite common actually, remember the Cards? LOL
Homes
March 12, 2010 at 6:59 pm
You know…this would be so much cooler if I had a HD television. I bought mine right before HD and widescreen got all “normal”. Now I’m the freak with a huge television that does nothing. Dang technology!