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The 1976 Stanley Cup Finals on the NHL Network marked the first time that the NHL's championship series was nationally televised in its entirety in the United States. [39] [49] The analysts for the 1976 Stanley Cup Finals were active players and each game featured a different analyst alongside Marv Albert.
The National Hockey League has never fared as well on American television in comparison to the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, or the National Football League, although that has begun to change, with NBC's broadcasts of the final games of the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 Stanley Cup Finals scoring some of the best ratings ever enjoyed by the sport on American television.
The National Hockey League (NHL) is shown on national television in the United States and Canada. With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games, and ...
1976 (Two weekend games of the Super Series only) 1979 (Game 2 of the Challenge Cup only) 1980 (Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals only) NBC: 1966 (playoffs only) 1972–1975 1990–1994 (All-Star Game only) 2005–2021: RKO General: 1966 (Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals only) 1967 (regular season games only) NHL Network: 1975–1979: ABC
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The 1970 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1969–70 season, and the culmination of the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was a contest between the Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues , who appeared in their third consecutive finals series.
By 1978–79 (the final season of the NHL Network's existence), there were 18 Monday night games and 12 Saturday afternoon games covered. The 1979 Challenge Cup [19] replaced the All-Star Game. It was a best-of-three series between the NHL All-Stars against the Soviet Union national squad.
The American version of NHL Network was used as an overflow channel for select first round playoff games when NBC Sports held the U.S. national TV contract from 2012 to 2021. [ 18 ] [ better source needed ] In 2021, the network introduced its first original broadcasts, the NHL Network Showcase , airing on weekend afternoons and called by E. J ...