Taken from Puck The Media website:
Here are the broadcast teams for Hockey Day in America:
Not sure yet if there will be a third man "in the glass" for the regional games.
12:35 PM ET, Washington vs. Buffalo – Jim Jackson and Ray Ferraro
12:40 PM ET, Philadelphia vs. NY Rangers – Ken Daniels and Joe Micheletti
12:45 PM ET, Detroit vs. Minnesota – Pat Foley and Darren Pang
3:30 PM ET, Pittsburgh vs. Chicago – Mike Emrick, Ed Olczyk and Pierre McGuire
6:00 PM ET, Montreal vs. Calgary (VERSUS) – Dave Strader, Andy Brickley and Brian Engblom
The entire country – after a half-hour pre-game show from Millenium Park in Chicago – will be brought to the Washington Capitals-Buffalo Sabres game, which has a face-off time of 12:35 PM ET. Then, at 12:40 PM ET, some viewers will be sent off to Madison Square Garden to see the Philadelphia Flyers take on the New York Rangers. Finally, at 12:45 PM ET/11:45 AM CT, much of the country will be taken out to St. Paul to see the Minnesota Wild host the Detroit Red Wings. The entire country will see a match-up of the last two Stanley Cup Champions, Pittsburgh and Chicago at 3:30 PM ET/2:30 PM CT.
Rangers and Flyers will be seen in 54% of the country - Minnesota/Detroit tilt will be seen in 40% of the country - the other 6% of the country will see the Sabres and Capitals. We’ll hope to have regional maps guiding you to which game you’ll see in your market closer to the weekend.
LS....
Sharks used to have a goalie Thorne pronounced NABakov (should be nahBAWHkov).
And a top pairing d-man ragNARson (should be RAGnarson).
#2 draft pick mahrLOH (should be MAHRloh).
IIRC he also mixed up Dimitrakos, Korolyuk among others.
Marleau IS pronounced mahr-LOH, it's french canadian. Listen to the arena announcer in SJ every time he gets credited with something, he pronounces it correctly (mahr-LOH).Sharks used to have a goalie Thorne pronounced NABakov (should be nahBAWHkov).
And a top pairing d-man ragNARson (should be RAGnarson).
#2 draft pick mahrLOH (should be MAHRloh).
IIRC he also mixed up Dimitrakos, Korolyuk among others.
I'm not sure if I love or hate the fact that they're not allowing the local PBP guys call their own team's games.
So their genius move is to replace Bill Clement on NBC by some young punk that seems to know nothing about hockey? I hope Milbury slap that kid.
darrenrovell
BREAKING NEWS: NBC Sports Group secures rights to Triple Crown for the next 5 years http://is.gd/HgP9gj
After only carrying first two races for a few years, they reunite the three after ABC drops Belmont.
Definitely still keeping cards near vest WRT future acquisitions (Olympics).
And may impact some playoff games, should they be played pre-race.
On NBC's golf coverage today it was called the Golf Channel on NBC. With the Golf Channel logo big and the NBC logo smaller. I wonder if at some point it will be Versus on NBC or whatever they rebrand it. Much like the four-letter network on ABC where there really is not an ABC Sports division any more.
http://twitter.com/#!/fangsbites/status/47330390351941632Heard this also. RT @TheDalyPlanet: Told @VERSUSTV will be rebranded almost immediately by NBC. CSNBC might be the leader in the clubhouse.
NBC had the Belmont in the past but the NYRA jumped ship and went back to ABC.
The Kentucky Derby, if it goes according to what I think will happen, will run under the lights starting next year.
The Cup Finals schedule would have to run late for the Belmont to be in play, but either way it wouldn't be run at a time where the Cup Finals would interfere with it. The race is usually around 6:30, with coverage wrapped up at 7, and would be a nice lead-in to the pre-game show. And that's only if the Cup Finals run late, last season the Belmont was run the day after what would have been Game 7.
Also, Bill Clement is gone from NBC because Bill Clement wanted to be. He only runs a part-time schedule, and only goes on the road with the Flyers when Keith Jones has to be on VS. If Bill Clement wanted a spot, I bet he could knock on a door and get it considering he's still employed by the owners of he network.
McHugh does fine, he is just generic about it.
Who is this John Boruk?
Another new VERSUS wrinkle was shown off last night: for the first time since, I believe, the opening night of OLN’s coverage of the National Hockey League (when Jack Edwards was in Tampa Bay, as well as Bob Harwood in another city) they had a reporter located at a game VERSUS was not airing – in this case, Rangers/Islanders. John Boruk provided inside info from the Garden. This is a terrific idea, especially in such a jumbled Eastern Conference where every game can mean something. Hopefully, this is a chance for Bob Harwood to run out the string, as he mentioned when he’d been let go. Maybe instead of forcing chatter during six intermission reports of playoff games, we can get reporters doing live hits from games on off nights. It’d be cool for VERSUS to have a reporter at all eight Stanley Cup Playoff match-ups.
He's been a broadcast anchor on CSN-Philly for the past 4 or 5 years.
He will also destroy any man in a suit-wearing contest.