All-Star Game
NHL All-Star Game - The 2007-08 NHL All-Star Game was held at the Philips Arena in Atlanta on January 27, 2008. Versus, CBC, and RDS carried the game.
National Broadcasters
Canada (English)
CBC - "Hockey Night in Canada" broadcasts Saturday doubleheaders starting at 7 PM Eastern time, with the "Scotiabank Saturday Night" pre-game show, with Ron MacLean and Don Cherry, at 6:30 PM EST. In addition, they will air selected weeknight games. 7 PM Saturday games are generally called by Bob Cole and Harry Neale -- they usually do the Maple Leafs game if there are two games in the timeslot. Vancouver's Jim Hughson calls the 10 PM Saturday games with Craig Simpson or Greg Millen. CBC also has the All-Star Game, extensive Stanley Cup Playoff coverage, and exclusive Canadian coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals. Due to the unbalanced NHL... schedule, CBC's "Hockey Day in Canada" included American teams for the first time, as the Western and Eastern Canadian teams didn't play each other this season. "Hockey Day in Canada" was be held on February 9, 2008, with four games: Detroit at Toronto (3 PM ET), Edmonton at Calgary or Montreal at Ottawa (7 PM ET), Colorado at Vancouver (10 PM ET). In March 2007, the CBC and the NHL signed a new 6-year agreement, from the 2008-09 to the 2013-14 season. CBC plans to air every Montreal Canadiens Saturday night game to Quebec and other regions in 2008-09.
TSN - TSN has rights to a national package featuring national exclusivity on Wednesday nights plus early-round Stanley Cup Playoff coverage. In addition, they'll have exclusive southern-Ontario coverage of selected Maple Leafs games. In June 2008, TSN's parent (CTVglobemedia) and the NHL signed a new 6-year agreement, covering the 2008-09 to 2013-14 seasons. Wednesday exclusivity will continue, and all 70 TSN regular-season games will include at least one Canadian team. One post-season first-round series can feature a Canadian team, the first time coverage of a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup Playoffs would move over from CBC.
NHL Network - The network, a digital-tier network, carries 40 live games across Canada.
Canada (French)
RDS - TSN's French-language arm is the national broadcaster of the full schedule for the Montreal Canadiens, with exclusivity in Quebec. Pierre Houde and Yvon Pednault call the action. RDS also carries a selection of other NHL games. They'll carry as much of the Stanley Cup Playoffs as they can.
Reseau Info-Sports -- RDS's second network carries approximately 50 live games a year.
United States
NBC - 2007-08 is the third year of NBC's 3-year contract. The NHL and NBC have reportedly picked up the option for a 4th year, contingent on a 2009 Winter Classic at New York's Yankee Stadium. The network will carry a flexible schedule of mid-to-late-season Sunday "Game of the Week" broadcasts. It started with the NHL Winter Classic outdoor game, Pittsburgh at Buffalo on January 1, 2008. Several games were made available, with NBC picking one and returning the rest to local broadcasters (and moving those games to evening time slots, 13 days before game time). They'll also have Stanley Cup Playoff coverage: weekend playoff games and prime-time coverage of games 3 thru conclusion of the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals. Mike Emrick and Ed Olczyk are lead announcers for NBC coverage. There will be no studio show in the 2007-08 season, with Pierre McGuire and Mike Milbury doing pre-game and intermission shows from the site of the Game of the Week. NBC is expected to extend the deal through 2010 to coincide with their coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Versus - Comcast's Versus is the NHL's cable partner, under a deal through 2010-11. They'll carry a 58-game regular-season package (mostly Mondays and Tuesdays, the selected games are exclusive to Versus), the All-Star Game, extensive Stanley Cup Playoff coverage, and the first 2 games of the Stanley Cup Finals. Mike Emrick is lead play-by-play announcer for Versus coverage, with a cast of thousands :) of color commentators.
NHL Network - The US version of Canada's NHL Network, supported by Comcast as part of the Versus deal, is becoming available on digital cable tiers across the US. The network is expected to carry about 50 non-exclusive games in 2007-08, using one of the teams' regional feeds.
HDNet - HDNet will carry two games a week, usually on Thursday and Saturday nights, in 1080i high-definition video. Game telecasts are produced by HDNet with Judd Sirott, Larry Murphy, and John Vanbiesbrouck. Games are chosen roughly 60 days in advance.
Satellite/Digital Cable
NHL Centre Ice - A subscription package, showing all out-of-market games including CBC and Rogers SportsNet coverage, to American viewers with the DirecTV satellite system or many digital cable systems.
Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio - For the 2007-08 season, XM takes over as exclusive satellite radio home of the NHL (although, with the pending XM/Sirius merger, "exclusive" is in the eye of the beholder). NHL Home Ice is on XM 204, and game coverage is on XM 204-209 and 237-238.
Webcasting
NHL.com - Every audio broadcast of every NHL game is available free at NHL Game Radio, unlike a certain so-called "National Pastime"... sponsored by DirecTV.
NHL Centre Ice Online - available at www.nhl.tv, it's the online version of the satellite/cable Centre Ice package.
Local Broadcasts
Radio: 830 KLAA (Steve Carroll & Brent Severyn)
Cable: FSN Prime Ticket (John Ahlers & Brian Hayward)
Conflicts on FSN West.
TV: KDOC 56
Radio: 680 WCNN (Dan Kamal & Jeff Odgers)
Cable: SportSouth (JP Dellacamera & Darren Eliot)
Radio: 1030 WBZ (Dave Goucher & Bob Beers)
Cable: NESN (Jack Edwards & Andy Brickley)
Radio: 550 WGR (Rick Jeanneret & Harry Neale or Mike Robitaille)
Cable: MSG Network [Upstate NY only]
Radio: 960 CFAC (Peter Maher & Mike Rogers)
Cable: RSN West (Roger Millions & John Garrett or Ryan Walter)
Digital Cable/Closed Circuit: Flames PPV (Roger Millions & Charlie Simmer)
Radio: 99.9 WCMC (Chuck Kaiton)
Kaiton is joined by on radio by Forslund for games not aired by FSN.
Cable: FSN South (John Forslund & Tripp Tracy)
About half the FSN games are blacked out in South Carolina.
Radio: 670 WSCR (John Weideman & Troy Murray)
Cable: CSN Chicago (Dan Kelly & Ed Olczyk)
After years of road-only broadcasts, all 82 games will be broadcast in 2008-09 on CSN Chicago and WGN 9.
Pat Foley will return for 2008-09, replacing Dan Kelly.
Radio moves to 720 WGN for 2008-09.
Conflicts air on CSN+.
Radio: 104.3 KKFN (Norm Jones & Marc Moser)
Simulcast (and conflicts) on 950 KEPN.
Cable: Altitude (Mike Haynes & Peter McNab)
Conflicts on Altitude2. John Kelly filled in for Mike Haynes during the playoffs while Haynes recovered from an aneurysm.
Radio: 1460 WBNS/101.1 WWCD (George Matthews & Bill Davidge)
Cable: FSN Ohio (Jeff Rimer & Danny Gare)
Radio: 820 WBAP (Ralph Strangis & Daryl Reaugh)
Cable: FSN Southwest
TV: KDFI 27
Radio: 1270 WXYT (Ken Kal & Paul Woods)
Cable: FSN Detroit (Ken Daniels & Mickey Redmond)
Larry Murphy will do selected road games for Redmond.
Radio: 630 CHED (Rod Phillips & Morley Scott)
Cable: RSN West (Kevin Quinn & Ray Ferraro)
Digital Cable/Closed Circuit: Oilers PPV
Radio: 790 WAXY (Randy Moller & Bill Lindsay)
Cable: FSN Florida (Steve Goldstein & Denis Potvin)
Radio: 1150 KTLK (Nick Nickson & Daryl Evans)
Conflicts on 1260 KGIL.
Cable: FSN West (Bob Miller & Jim Fox)
Radio: 830 WCCO (Bob Kurtz & Tom Reid)
Conflicts on 107.5 KBGY.
Cable: FSN North (Dan Terhaar & Mike Greenlay)
TV: KSTC 45 or KSTP 5
Radio: 800 CJAD (Rick Moffat & Murray Wilson)
French Radio: 730 CKAC (Martin McGuire & Dany Dube)
TV/Cable: The Canadiens do not have "local" TV - all of their games are on one of the national contracts.
Radio: 104.5 WGFX (Pete Weber & Terry Crisp)
Conflicts on 100.1 WRLT. Willy Daunic fills in on radio as needed.
Cable: FSN South
Radio: 660 WFAN (Matt Loughlin & Sherry Ross)
Conflicts on 970 WWDJ or 1130 WBBR.
Cable: MSG Plus (Mike Emrick & Glenn Resch)
Conflicts on MSG Plus 2 and MSG.
Radio: 1130 WBBR (Steve Mears & Chris King)
Cable: MSG Plus (Howie Rose & Billy Jaffe)
Mandarin Cable: MSG+ SAP channel (Alex Peng & Justin Chang)
Conflicts on MSG Plus 2 and MSG.
Radio: 1050/1040/107.1 WEPN (Kenny Albert or Spencer Ross or Bob Wischusen or Mike Crispino & Dave Maloney)
Conflicts on 770 WABC.
Cable: MSG Network (Sam Rosen & Joe Micheletti)
Conflicts on MSG2 and MSG Plus.
TV: WWOR 9
All broadcasters are from 2006-07.
Radio: 1200 CFGO (Dean Brown & Gord Wilson)
Dave Schreiber fills in for Brown for CHRO and RSN games. Laurie Boschman fills in for Wilson for CHRO games.
Cable: RSN Ontario (Brown & Gary Galley)
TV: CHRO 5/43 (Brown & Wilson)
Games on CHRO are simulcast to Ontario outside Ottawa on RSN.
Digital Cable: Senators PPV
French Radio: 104.7 CJRC (Michel Langevin & Alain Sanscartier)
French Cable: RDS (Alain Crete & Benoit Brunet)
Radio: 610 WIP (Tim Saunders & Brian Propp)
Cable: CSN Philadelphia (Jim Jackson, Steve Coates & Keith Jones)
Conflicts on CN8 Philadelphia.
TV: WPSG 57
Radio: 1060 KDUS (Bob Heethuis & Louie DeBrusk)
Cable: FSN Arizona (Dave Strader & Darren Pang)
TV: KAZT 27
Radio: 105.9 WXDX (Mike Lange & Phil Bourque)
Cable: FSN Pittsburgh (Paul Steigerwald & Bob Errey)
Radio: 1120 KMOX (Chris Kerber & Kelly Chase)
Cable: FSN Midwest (John Kelly & Bernie Federko)
TV: KPLR 11
Radio: 98.5 KUFX (Dan Rusanowsky & Jamie Baker)
David Maley fills in for Jamie Baker on selected home games.
Cable: CSN Bay Area (Randy Hahn & Drew Remenda)
Conflicts on CSN Plus.
Radio: 620 WDAE (Dave Mishkin & Phil Esposito)
Esposito does home games only.
Cable: Sun Sports Central Florida (Rick Peckham & Bobby Taylor)
TV: WXPX 66
Radio: 640 CFMJ (Joe Bowen or Dennis Beyak & Jim Ralph)
Cable: TSN [regional] or RSN Ontario (Joe Bowen & Greg Millen)
Digital Cable: LeafsTV
Radio: 1040 CKST (John Shorthouse & Tom Larscheid)
Cable: RSN Pacific (Jim Hughson & John Garrett)
Digital Cable: Canucks TV (radio simulcast)
Radio:1500/820/107.7 WWWT (Steve Kolbe & Ken Sabourin)
Sabourin does home games only. Conflicts on 1050 WFED or 106.7 WJFK.
Cable: CSN Mid-Atlantic (Joe Beninati & Craig Laughlin)
Conflicts on CSN+ Mid-Atlantic. Al Koken stands in when Beninati is working for Versus.
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