With their first game just days away, the new league officially announced their broadcast partners for their inaugural season. All 72 games will receive live coverage. In the U.S. NESN will broadcast all 24 Boston games while MSG Networks will do the same for the New York team. All of the games for all teams will be streamed on the league’s YouTube channel.
In Canada, games will be split between TSN, CBC, and Sportsnet. The league also noted that they might announce additional broadcast partners throughout the season. New York will take on Toronto on Monday, January 1st at 12:30 PM to open the season.
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Isaac Howard’s shootout goal is the difference in U.S. win over Czechia [Team USA Hockey]
Team USA ran their record to 3-0 with a 4-3 win over Czechia in a shootout on Friday. The Lightning’s young lad, Isaac Howard, scored the opening goal and then the deciding goal in the shootout. He’s up to 3 goals in 3 games for the U.S.
Which milestone is next for Steven Stamkos [Tampa Bay Times]
After this weekend, no one in the history of the NHL will have put on the Tampa Bay Lightning jersey more times than Steven W. Stamkos.
Crunch lose to Rocket, 3-2 [Syracuse Crunch]
Gabriel Fortier and Gage Goncalves provided the goals while Hugo Alnefelt stopped 17-of-20 shots. It’s been a bit of a scuffle for Syracuse over the last few weeks as they are 3-5-2 in their last 10 games. They are still in second place in the division, but the gap is growing as Cleveland is on a six-game winning streak.
Point, Mackinnon reach top skating speeds of the season [NHL]
Brayden Point hit 24.5 MPH during the game against the Panthers the other night. That’s pretty, pretty fast.
Torts to hit 1,500 games coached (and he’s a nice guy?) [NHL.com]
“There’s that perception of what he is and then there’s the reality of what he is, and what he is is a very demanding guy that cares an awful lot about his players. And he works extremely hard and pushes his players extremely hard to get the best out of them. That’s his modus operandi. And the sole purpose is because he cares about them. And he cares about winning.” — Mike Sullivan
Lawsuit alleges Kraken violated Metropolitans trademark with Winter Classic jerseys [The Seattle Times]
Well now, this is quite the predicament. Chances are it ends with a quite, undisclosed settlement.
