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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 following is a list of the all-time records for each of the 32 active National Hockey League (NHL) teams, beginning with the first NHL season (), with regular season stats accurate as of the end of all games on October 26, 2023, and playoff stats accurate as of the end of the 2020–21 NHL season and 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. [1]
It was named All-Time Greatest Sports Video Game by Boston.com. [22] It was also ranked second by ESPN on its all-time sports video games rankings. [23] Bleacher Report listed it as the second-best hockey video game ever made (behind NHL 10) but also cited it as "one of the best video games ever made." [24] Former NHL player Jeremy Roenick ...
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.
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.
Minnesota North Stars' general manager Lou Nanne [326] provided color commentary for the entire game. This was the last time that a National Hockey League game was broadcast on American network television for 10 years (until the 1990 NHL All-Star Game aired on NBC [332] [333] [329]), and the Stanley Cup Finals game on broadcast-network ...
The tournament finale was the most watched television event in Canadian history at the time. 10,700,000 people were estimated to have watched the game, representing nearly half of all Canadians in 1976. [43] The team that represented Canada is still considered one of the greatest national teams ever to represent the nation in a hockey ...
In 1991, NBC broke away from the live telecast of the All-Star Game during the third period in favor of Gulf War coverage; SportsChannel America showed the rest of the contest later that day. The 1995 All-Star Game was not played due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout. The 1996 and 1997 All-Star Games were televised in prime time.