NEW YORK, N.Y. (October 5, 2010)-VERSUS will drop the puck on the 2010/11 NHL regular season, and its sixth year of on-ice action, with an unprecedented amount of coverage featuring nine games across the first seven days of the season. The network’s coverage begins with a triple-header on Thursday when the Carolina Hurricanes battle the Minnesota Wild from Helsinki, Finland, at 12 p.m. ET (ed: which is 1000 hrs, MDT. Oh-Dark-Thirty early, for me.), followed by a Keystone State showdown between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers at 7 p.m. ET before finishing the night with a match-up featuring the Colorado Avalanche and 2010 Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks at 10 p.m. ET. Every NHL game on VERSUS is available in HD.
The first week of coverage continues with three additional overseas games from Helsinki; Stockholm, Sweden and Prague, Czech Republic on Friday and Saturday afternoon. The network will then feature exclusive coverage of the Colorado Avalanche/Detroit Red Wings contest on October 12 at 7:30 p.m. ET in VERSUS’ regularly-scheduled Tuesday night slot, as well as games on Wednesday (New York Islanders at Washington Capitals, 7 p.m. ET) and Thursday night (Tampa Bay Lightning at Philadelphia Flyers, 7 p.m. ET), marking the first time in network history that bonus games will be played during the opening week.
I'll have to set my alarm clock to catch tomorrow's first game, given my sleeping patterns of late. My morning coffee and hockey... YOW! Life is about to get one whole HELLUVA lot better. Finally!
Congratulations! I guess you know how my friends in Hong Kong feel when they get up in the middle of the night to watch American football! They even had a watch party brunch the first game of the season gfor fellow ex-pats!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
It's THAT time already?? Holy mud, wasn't it just finished a few weeks ago?? ;)
ReplyDeleteJust teasing. I know how I agonize between football seasons.
Hmm, wonder how the Caps will do this year?
Moogie: We did the same sorta thing, back in the day... except we took what we could get, AFRTS being what it was. Those days predated satellite teevee, of course.
ReplyDeleteKath. Heh. Yeah, hockey DOES have a short off-season, especially for those teams who go deep into the playoffs. The Caps SHOULD do better this year. Then again, we all expected big things from them LAST year.