Hockey Day in America

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Hockey Day In America Presented By McDonald’s

The NHL and NBC Sports will celebrate America’s passion for hockey with the inaugural Hockey Day in America presented by McDonald’s on Sunday, February 20.

With six hours of coverage (Noon-6 p.m. ET) – which will include four NHL games – hosted from Millennium Park’s outdoor ice rink in Chicago, NBC Sports will tell the stories that demonstrate this country’s affinity for hockey – from hockey parents who chauffeur pee wees to practice before sunrise to the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships in Minnesota, played by amateurs amidst arctic temperatures, to ‘celebrity’ hockey played by actors and producers in Los Angeles to inner-city hockey in Washington, D.C. that has made a difference in the lives of countless children and young adults.

NBC Sports will broadcast four NHL games featuring eight teams from some of the most avid U.S. hockey markets. The first three games will be broadcast regionally with staggered starts. All viewers will begin the day with the same game before some viewers are taken to their regional game. The staggered starts allow for live look-ins of the other regionalized games during intermissions. The fourth game, Pittsburgh at Chicago, will be broadcast nationally. All games will be streamed live on NBCSports.com.

This actually sounds really cool. It should be great exposure for both the NHL and hockey in general. Also, it's particularly well-played on a Sunday just after the Super Bowl when football fans are in that off-season dry spell.
 

Tinalera

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Interesting timing of this announcement-so soon after the confirmed Comcast NBC merger.


Good to see the US getting a "Hockey Day In USA"-I'll be interested to see the numbers, as pointed out, it's great timing: after the Superbowl, and Spring training not for another month.
 

LadyStanley

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Interesting timing of this announcement-so soon after the confirmed Comcast NBC merger.


Good to see the US getting a "Hockey Day In USA"-I'll be interested to see the numbers, as pointed out, it's great timing: after the Superbowl, and Spring training not for another month.

Other than OTA national TV, there's been an US celebration for 3-4 years for hockey one weekend in February.
 

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NBC Sports’ “NHL Game of the Week†broadcast team of Mike “Doc†Emrick, (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (game analyst), Pierre McGuire (inside-the-glass analyst) and Mike Milbury (studio analyst) will call Pittsburgh at Chicago.
The three regional games are Detroit at Minnesota, Philadelphia at New York Rangers, and Washington at Buffalo. Exact start times and commentators for the regional games will be announced at a later date.

Nice to see games from Minnesota and Buffalo among the early games.
 

Jeffrey93

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I can't wait to see the ratings on this....it will be Message Board Fuel for the next 5 years!!!
 

bodybreak

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Yeah... no demand for NHL on American TV, eh?.. hehehe...

I guess not, what with their plan to somehow cram 4 NHL games into 6 hours... Don't games normally take 2.5 hours each?? :sarcasm: Congratulations America, on your first (almost) NHL doubleheader on network TV! :)

Me, I'm just waiting for the day when NBC shows ONE freaking game again... Every time a weekend game is listed on the schedule I flip on my one American channel that carries hockey, to no avail! :banghead:
 

Murphy7

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I guess not, what with their plan to somehow cram 4 NHL games into 6 hours... Don't games normally take 2.5 hours each?? :sarcasm: Congratulations America, on your first (almost) NHL doubleheader on network TV! :)

Me, I'm just waiting for the day when NBC shows ONE freaking game again... Every time a weekend game is listed on the schedule I flip on my one American channel that carries hockey, to no avail! :banghead:

I'm sure it's somewhere in all of the releases, but first game is a regional broadcast. Second is Pens-Hawks. Then Versus will carry the Heritage Classic. Nine hours of hockey on the NBC family of networks.
 

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