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1978–79's Challenge Cup replaced the All-Star Game. It was a best-of-three series between the NHL All-Stars against the Soviet Union national squad. In the United States, Game 2, [95] which was held on a Saturday afternoon, was shown on CBS [96] as part of CBS Sports Spectacular.
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 ...
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 tight timeline would also rule out the ability for other support events such as alumni games or local college/lower level hockey games, as the rink would have to be disassembled immediately after the Winter Classic to ensure venue availability for NFL playoff games, which could be held at other venues, as was the case in 2008 (when the ...
All 32 NHL teams played games that night, with all games having staggered start times, and a tripleheader on ESPN. [ 134 ] [ 135 ] ESPN brought back the NHL Big City Greens Classic for the March 9, 2024 broadcast of that day's Pittsburgh Penguins-Boston Bruins game, the second half of an ABC Hockey Saturday doubleheader.
The NHL on ABC is an American presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC in the United States.. The network first broadcast NHL games during the 1993 Stanley Cup playoffs on April 18, 1993, under a two-year time-buy agreement with ESPN.
2011 – Game seven was second most-watched CBC Sports program, drawing an average of 8.76 million viewers and trailing only the men's gold medal game at the 2002 Winter Olympics. [41] 2010 – Game one was viewed by 3.164 million people on CBC. [42] Game six was the most-watched All-American Stanley Cup Finals game, with 4.077 million viewers ...
The following are currently active NHL ice hockey enforcers and current minor league enforcers with NHL experience, listed alphabetically by their last name. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.