VERSUS/NBC Exclusive Games For Round 2
April 28, 2010 9 Comments
These games will not air on the regional sports networks of the teams playing in them. The rest of the games will. Any other questions, e-mail me or pose them in the comments.
Montreal vs. Pittsburgh
Game 1 – April 30, 7:00 PM, VERSUS
Game 2 – May 2, 2:00 PM, NBC
Game 4 – May 6, 7:00 PM, VERSUS
Game 5 – May 8, 7:00 PM, VERSUS
Philadelphia vs. Boston
Game 1 – May 1, 12:30 PM, NBC
Game 2 – May 3, 7:00 PM, VERSUS
Game 3 – May 5, 7:00 PM, VERSUS
Game 4 – May 7, 7:00 PM, VERSUS
Detroit vs. San Jose
Game 1 – Apr. 29, 9:00 PM, VERSUS
Game 2 – May 2, 8:00 PM, VERSUS
Vancouver vs. Chicago
Game 1 – May 1, 8:00 PM, VERSUS
Game 4 – May 7, 9:30 PM, VERSUS
Puck The Media 
is NHL Network US helping out with those VERSUS JIP games?
The Versus JIP games will likely be on Gamecentre or Centre Ice.
Doesn’t Versus only have two exclusive games per series?
They must have two per series and then four extras.
I’m surprised NBC didn’t pick up Det/SJ on Sunday. Detroit has mass appeal and SJ/SF is a top 5 media market. They must be desperate to show Crosby at least once…..
I’m not surprised. NBC won’t show a Winter Classic if a Canadian team is involved, but when it comes to Pens/Habs or Sharks/Wings, they went with Pens/Habs just to get Crosby on and because it’s the Sharks and not Hawks/Wings.
The only legitimate excuse is that the Eagles have back to back concerts on Fri and Sat nights, and if SJ/DET Game 2 was on NBC, it would have to be a noon start, too soon after the Eagles Concert.
But knowing the NHL and NBC, that probably wasn’t the reason they decided against SJ/DET, but probably one they would throw out if pressed about it now.
Actually it was already set (before the schedule was announced) that NBC’s game, for whatever reason, would be at 2 ET on Sunday, 11 a.m. PT. I wonder if there’s a rule that the league has in place stating that games can’t legally start before noon.
Yeah its called Horse Racing…which does 6/7x the numbers an NHL Playoff game garners. Better hope there is no overtime.
The Blackhawks hosted a couple of NBC games this year, face-off was 11:30 local.