ESPN will retake the ice for the first time since 2004 when it airs an NHL opening-night doubleheader in the fall. And the league’s other new TV partner, Turner Sports, also revealed its inaugural games on TNT.
The league unveiled its 82-game 2021-22 regular-season schedule today (see it here), and ESPN will drop the puck on a pair of games on Tuesday, October 12: the Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning at home against the Pittsburgh Penguins, followed by the expansion Seattle Kraken‘s first-ever game, against 2017 expansion club the Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas.
Both games also will be simulcast on ESPN+.
ESPN also will carry the Kraken’s first home game on Saturday, October 23, against its new division rival Vancouver Canucks at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The inaugural roster for the league’s 32nd franchise was filled out during Wednesday’s NHL Expansion Draft.
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The league unveiled its 82-game 2021-22 regular-season schedule today (see it here), and ESPN will drop the puck on a pair of games on Tuesday, October 12: the Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning at home against the Pittsburgh Penguins, followed by the expansion Seattle Kraken‘s first-ever game, against 2017 expansion club the Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas.
Both games also will be simulcast on ESPN+.
ESPN also will carry the Kraken’s first home game on Saturday, October 23, against its new division rival Vancouver Canucks at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The inaugural roster for the league’s 32nd franchise was filled out during Wednesday’s NHL Expansion Draft.
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- 7/22/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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