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NBC Sports Network Airs The Return of Sid The Kid & Many More Hockey Games Over The Next 7 Days

NBC Sports Network will be busy over the next week. A total of 11 college or pro hockey games will be aired on NBC Sports Network starting with tomorrow night’s Pittsburgh Penguins-New York Rangers game which marks the second return this season of Sidney Crosby to the ice. It kicks off a busy week for NBC Sports Network which will carry the Hockey East Semifinals on Friday and the Championship on Saturday.

In addition, eight NHL games will be carried in that span of seven days. This includes Monday and Tuesday night NHL doubleheaders as the playoff push is in high gear in the National Hockey League. And NBC also gets in the act with one game in its usual Sunday 12:30 p.m. ET timeslot.

Let’s take a look at NBC Sports Network’s schedule between Thursday and next Wednesday.

SIDNEY CROSBY RETURNS THURSDAY NIGHT ON NBC SPORTS NETWORK

Penguins captain takes ice for first time since December against Eastern Conference-leading New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden
Penguins also featured on NBC’s NHL Game of the Week on Sunday at in-state rival Philadelphia at 12:30 p.m. ET
“Crosby is fresh, fit and determined to prove his doubters wrong.” – Pierre McGuire
Bonus coverage of Penguins-Rangers continues NBC Sports Network’s run of live NHL or college hockey for 11 straight nights
Hockey East Tournament culminates with Semifinals and Finals this weekend on NBC Sports Network featuring No. 1 Boston College

NEW YORK – (March 14, 2012) – Sidney Crosby returns to the ice for the first time since Dec. 5, 2011 as his Pittsburgh Penguins, second in points in the Eastern Conference (89), travel to New York to take on the Eastern Conference-leading New York Rangers (95) at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m. ET on newly added coverage on the NBC Sports Network.

Beginning Thursday, the NBC Sports Group will present 12 live NHL or college hockey games over the next seven days. Crosby’s Penguins will be featured twice across the platforms of the NBC Sports Group, including Sunday’s NHL Game of the Week on NBC at their in-state rival Philadelphia Flyers; the Rangers will appear three times, all at home; and the San Jose Sharks, fighting to make the playoffs in the Western Conference, will also appear three times. The bonus Thursday night game also means that the NBC Sports Group will air 11 straight nights of live hockey action dating from Sun., March 11 through Wed., March 21. Thursday night’s Penguins game on the NBC Sports Network is a non-exclusive telecast and will be subject to local blackouts.

The team of Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst) and Pierre McGuire (‘Inside the Glass’ analyst) will call the action for Sunday’s game on NBC, and NBC Sports Network’s Wednesday night game. Dave Strader (play-by-play) and Brian Engblom (‘Inside the Glass’ analyst) will call Sunday night’s game. Emrick and McGuire will call Monday’s primetime coverage, with Strader and Engblom teaming up again for Tuesday’s game. Liam McHugh and analyst Mike Milbury will cover all the intermissions for NBC’s coverage. Additionally, McHugh hosts NHL Live, NBC Sports Network’s pre- and post-game studio show, and is joined by expert analysts Milbury and Keith Jones. John Walton (play-by-play) and Ken Hodge (analyst) handle college hockey for NBC Sports Network on Friday and Milbury will join them on Sat. to call the Hockey East Finals.

NBCSPORTS.COM: NBCSports.com continues to be the online destination for hockey fans. The website streams each NHL Game of the Week, allowing users to follow all the action and providing them with special features like “Star-Cam,” which follows marquee players throughout the game. NHL content areas on the site include ProHockeyTalk, one of NBCSports.com’s popular “Sports Talk” sites that provide fans with day-to-day coverage of the league with sharp analysis on every angle for all the big stories of the day. NBCSports.com also has exclusive NHL videos wrapping-up all the NHL action that day.

FRIDAY NIGHT ICE: NBC Sports Network’s college hockey coverage culminates this weekend with the Semifinals and Finals of the Hockey East Tournament on Friday and Saturday, respectively, live from TD Garden in Boston, Mass. Coverage begins on Friday with a double-header when No. 1 Boston College takes on Providence at 5 p.m. ET, immediately followed by No. 10 Maine against No. 5 Boston University at 8 p.m. ET. The NBC Sports Network will then air the Hockey East Finals in primetime on Sat. at 8 p.m. ET.

NBC Sports Group hockey schedule (all times ET, subject to change):

Thursday, March 15 — Pittsburgh at New York Rangers, 7:00 p.m. (NBCSN)

Friday, March 16 — #1 Boston College vs. Providence, 5:00 p.m. (NBCSN)
Friday, March 16 — #10 Maine vs. #5 Boston University, 8:00 p.m. (NBCSN)

Saturday, March 17 — Hockey East Finals (TBD), 8:00 p.m. (NBCSN)
Saturday, March 17 — Detroit at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. (NBCSN)

Sunday, March 18 — Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 12:30 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, March 18 — Washington at Chicago, 7:00 p.m. (NBCSN)

Monday, March 19 — New Jersey at New York Rangers, 7:30 p.m. (NBCSN)
Monday, March 19 — Anaheim at San Jose, 10:00 p.m. (NBCSN)

Tuesday, March 20 — Phoenix at Dallas, 8:00 p.m. (NBCSN)
Tuesday, March 20 — San Jose at Los Angeles 10:30 p.m. (NBCSN)

Wednesday, March 21 — Detroit at New York Rangers, 7:30 p.m. (NBCSN)

More stuff is coming up.

CBS Sports Network Announces 2011-12 Hockey East Schedule

CBS Sports Network and the Hockey East conference have announced an eight game college hockey schedule that begins next week and ends in March. Overall, Boston College makes the most appearances with 5, Boston University is next with 4, then Maine and Vermont have two appearances. Providence College and UNH have one single appearance and that is a game involving both schools in February.

We have the full press release with the schedule right below.

HOCKEY EAST ANNOUNCES 2011-12 CBS SPORTS NETWORK BROADCAST SCHEDULE

Wakefield, Mass. – Hockey East and CBS Sports Network announced on Wednesday the eight-game broadcast schedule for the upcoming 2011-12 season.

The schedule opens with Boston College hosting WCHA foe Denver University on Friday, October 14 at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The next two games will feature one of the fiercest rivalries in all of college sports, as Boston College faces off against Boston University on November 13 and December 2 at Conte Forum.

“We are pleased to join forces once more with CBS Sports Network,” said Hockey East Commissioner Joe Bertagna. “The need to reach a national audience is greater than ever before and we are happy to continue this partnership.”

CBS Sports Network will televise from Maine’s Alfond Arena on December 10, as the Black Bears host the Boston University Terriers. The Network will also air the rematch on January 28 from Agganis Arena in Boston.

On February 3, the Network will air UNH entertaining Providence College from the Whittemore Center in Durham. The Network schedule concludes with Vermont at Boston College in the final two games of the regular season for each school.

“We’re excited for another season of Hockey East action on CBS Sports Network,” said Ross Molloy, Vice President, Remote Production, CBS Sports Network. “The schedule once again features top conference games and we look forward to providing fans comprehensive coverage throughout the season, including our pregame show which originates from the site of each game.”

The Hockey East Association is a 10-team Division I college men’s hockey conference founded in 1984 and an eightteam Division I women’s league which began play in 2002-03. The men’s league has won seven NCAA championships in the past 19 years.

2011-2012 CBS SPORTS NETWORK BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Date	Game	Time
Friday, October 14	Denver at Boston College	7:30
Sunday, November 13	Boston University at Boston College	4:00
Friday, December 2	Boston University at Boston College	7:30
Saturday, December 10	Boston University at Maine	7:30
Saturday, January 28	Maine at Boston University	7:30
Friday, February 3	Providence at New Hampshire	7:30
Friday, March 2	Vermont at Boston College	7:30
Saturday, March 3	Vermont at Boston College	7:00

 

That’s going to do it.

CBS College Sports’ 2010-11 College Hockey Schedule

And to round out our college hockey press releases, we have the composite CBS College Sports schedule. Overall, 24 games from the ECAC, CCHA, Hockey East and Atlantic Hockey. Here’s the schedule.

CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK BACK ON THE ICE FOR EIGHTH SEASON OF COLLEGE HOCKEY

Network Signs Multi-year Partnership to Broadcast Hockey East Games

CBS College Sports Network returns to the ice for the Network’s eighth year of college hockey programming, which includes a schedule of 24 games to be broadcast in High Definition.   Hockey East games return to the Network this season, as CBS College Sports Network and Hockey East have signed a multi-year programming partnership.  The schedule also features regular season and post-season CCHA Hockey and ECAC Hockey action, as well as Atlantic Hockey contests. 

            The puck drops on Friday, October 8 (7:30 PM, ET) with *No. 8-ranked New Hampshire taking on No. 3-ranked Miami (Ohio).  In all, the Network will broadcast five Miami (Ohio) games, as well as feature ten of the top 15 teams in the country.  Top match-ups include: North Dakota at Maine (10/22), Yale at Cornell (11/19), a home and home series between Boston College at Boston University (12/3, 12/4) and Michigan at Miami (2/4), among others.  The complete schedule is included below. 

Veteran analyst Dave Starman returns to the Network for his eighth year calling games.  Starman teams with play-by-play announcers Eric Frede and Matt Shepard.

           

CBS College Sports Network annually covers 25 men’s and women’s sports, while providing coverage of over 250 live events each season, in addition to a variety of studio shows and original programming.   CBS College Sports Network is available across the country through cable and video providers and via satellite on DIRECTV Channel 613 and Dish Network Channel 152. For more information, go to www.cbscollegesports.com.

*USA Today Poll as of 9/27/10

And that will round out the college hockey releases.

2010-11 Hockey East TV Schedule

It’s quite rare when I get to do college hockey press releases, but today, I have four, count ‘em, four college hockey TV coverage releases to provide and that’s a good thing. I’d like to see more college hockey on TV and it’s nice to see Big Ten Network and CBS College Sports stepping up to the plate this season.

I’m going to separate these by conferences to make it easy.

First I’ll do Hockey East. CBS College Sports and NESN will do the games. Here’s CBS College Sports’ schedule.

HOCKEY EAST SIGNS NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP WITH CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK

~Ten games featuring Hockey East teams will be featured in 2010-2011~

Hockey East Commissioner Joe Bertagna and CBS College Sports Network Executive Vice President and General Manager Steve Herbst announced on Wednesday, a multi-year partnership with the network beginning for the upcoming 2010-2011 season.

The network will broadcast eight Hockey East regular-season contests, plus two road games vs. CCHA opponents in non-conference action. All 10 games will be broadcast in High Definition (HD) by the network.

CBS College Sports Network’s coverage will commence in the opening weekend with New Hampshire at Miami University on Oct. 8th in Oxford, Ohio. Maine will play at Michigan State in East Lansing the following weekend on Oct. 15 at Munn Ice Arena. The first contest broadcast from New England will be on Oct. 22 at Alfond Arena, as the Black Bears face-off against WCHA foe North Dakota. The network will also broadcast the BC-BU home and home series on Dec. 3 and 4 in Boston.

CBS College Sports Network’s Hockey East broadcast team includes play-by-play announcer Eric Frede and analyst Dave Starman.

CBS College Sports Network annually covers 25 men’s and women’s sports, while providing compelling coverage of over 250 live events each season, in addition to a variety of studio shows and award winning original programming. CBS College Sports Network is available across the country through cable and video providers and via satellite on DIRECTV Channel 613 and Dish Network Channel 152. For more information, go to www.cbscollegesports.com. 

2010-2011 CBS COLLEGE SPORTS BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Date	Game	Time
Oct. 8	UNH at Miami	7:30
Oct. 15	Maine at Michigan State	7:30
Oct. 22	North Dakota at Maine	7:30
Dec. 3	Boston College at Boston U.	7:30
Dec. 4	Boston U. at Boston College	8:00
Dec. 10	UNH at Maine	7:30
Jan. 9	Boston U. at Vermont	7:00
Jan. 16	Boston College at Maine	7:00
Feb. 11	Boston U. at UMass	7:30
Feb. 18	UNH at Vermont	7:30

And in January, NESN will air college hockey on Friday nights including the Hockey East Championship in March.

NESN’S HOCKEY EAST TELEVISION SCHEDULE

~”Hockey East Friday Night” starts January 7 with PC at BC~

Hockey East is please to continue its relationship with NESN with the “Hockey East Friday Night” league package and other games involving Hockey East schools.

All games that are part of the “Hockey East Friday Night” regular season package begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be preceded by the “Hockey East Face-Off Live” NESN pre-game show, which begins at 7 p.m.

Games that are part of the league package are marked in bold. 

2010-2011 NESN TV SCHEDULE
Date	Game	TV	Time
Oct. 22	Boston U. at UMass	NESN	7:00
Nov. 19	Boston U. at UNH	NESN	7:00
Nov. 27	Quinnipiac at Massachusetts	NESN	7:00
Jan. 7	Providence at Boston College	NESN	7:30
Jan. 14	Massachusetts at UMass-Lowell	NESN	7:30
Jan. 15	Harvard at Boston U.	NESN	7:00
Jan. 21	Boston College at Boston U.	NESN	7:30
Jan. 22	Boston U. at UNH	NESN	7:00
Jan. 28	Massachusetts at Northeastern	NESN	7:30
Jan. 29	Vermont at Merrimack	NESN	7:30
Feb. 4	Maine at UNH	NESN	7:30
Feb. 5	Maine at UNH	NESN	7:00
Feb. 7	Harvard vs. Northeastern (BP)	NESN	5:00
Feb. 7	Boston College vs. Boston U. (BP)	NESN	8:00
Feb. 14	Beanpot Championship Game	NESN	8:00
Feb. 19	Maine at UMass-Lowell	NESN	7:30
Feb. 25	Vermont at Boston University	NESN	7:30
Feb. 26	Vermont at Boston U.	NESN	6:00
March 4	UNH at Boston College	NESN	7:30
March 6	WHEA Championship Game	NESN	TBA
March 12	Hockey East Quarterfinals	NESN	7:30
March 18	Hockey East Semifinals	NESN	5/8
March 19	Hockey East Championship	NESNPlus	7:00

Next, the ECAC schedule.