Your TV Guide and Open Thread for Night 23 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs

This will appear every night to inform you of the TV networks and announcers that will be covering the games during the playoffs.  Enjoy all the local and national info, after the jump.

Note

There’s been a bit of an emergency, so were going to have to be in and out for the rest of the day.  Unless it’s a press release or the open thread, probably little coming up here today.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

More on VERSUS Big Ratings Post-Season

People continue to hate and hate and hate again on VERSUS, hell Ray Ferraro did it yesterday!  But VERSUS just keeps growing and growing and growing in viewers.  The dependable Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News, sing the chorus:

The game in which two of the sports’ biggest stars, Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin and Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, both scored hat tricks in the Caps’s 4-3 triumph, was the NHL’s most-watched and highest-rated second-round game since the San Jose-Colorado on May 15, 2002 drew 1.4 million viewers for ESPN.
Over the first eight conference semifinals games played through Tuesday May 5, Versus, coming off its best regular-season ratings with the NHL, scored a 10% increase to 700,860 viewers on average from 636,777 at the same stage of the 2008 playoffs, according to Nielsen. The Comcast-owned service also netted a 10% increase among men 18 to 49 and a 19% among guys 25 to 54 with its second-round coverage, said network officials.

Through 32 total postseason games, including complete opening-round action, through May 4, Versus recorded a 25% increase in household ratings, an 18% surge in viewership, a 16% advance among men 18 to 49 and 27% growth with men 25 to 54,according to network executives.

Can we please get a 3rd weekly game now, Mr. Davis?