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For the CBS' Stanley Cup Finals coverage during this period, a third voice was added to the booth (Phil Esposito in 1971 and Harry Howell in 1972). From 1972–73 [10] –1974–75, [11] NBC not only televised the Stanley Cup Finals [12] (including a couple of games in prime time [13]), but also weekly regular season games on Sunday afternoons ...
The Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey league. It was donated by the Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892, and is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. [1]
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 1972 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1971–72 season, and the culmination of the 1972 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers. It was the Rangers' first appearance in the finals since 1950.
The top two seeds played each other for one berth in the Cup finals, while the other four playoff teams battled in a series of rounds for the other berth. Period of the seven-team NHL 1943–1967 The first and third-place teams played for one berth in the Cup finals, while the second and fourth-place teams played for the other berth.
🏒 NHL (5). 1947-49 Toronto Maple Leafs: The Leafs are the only team whose three-peat included a sub-.500 regular season. They snuck into the 1949 playoffs at 22-25-13. 1956-60 Montreal ...
2022 - ABC's coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals marked the first time the entire Stanley Cup Finals series would be carried exclusively on American broadcast television. 2023 - TNT 's coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals marked the first time since 1994 that the entire series would be carried on a cable network since ESPN last did it 29 years ...
In the second round, the Canadiens defeated the Philadelphia Flyers who had beaten the Minnesota North Stars, winning the series four games to one to advance to the finals against the Chicago Black Hawks.