ESPN Carrying Three Games To Celebrate Opening Night Of NHL’s 2021-22 Season

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The National Hockey League opens its 2021-22 season tonight and ESPN will be along for the ride.

The ESPN networks will carry three games to celebrate the season’s start. Two of the games will air as part of a double header on ESPN. Up first in the double header schedule is a matchup of the defending NHL Champion Tampa Bay Lightning and Pittsburgh Penguins at 7:30 p.m. ET. The expansion Seattle Kraken and the Las Vegas Golden Knights follow at 10:15 p.m.

The Anaheim Ducks and Minnesota Wild are also scheduled to play tonight. That game’s start time is scheduled for 10:15 p.m. ET. It will stream online through ESPN+

Sean McDonough will have the call for the Lightning-Penguins game. Analyst Ray Ferraro will join him for additional commentary while reporter Emily Kaplan will have all of the latest in-game news and interviews.

John Buccigross will anchor coverage of the Kraken-Golden Knights game. Brian Boucher will provide additional commentary while reporter A.J. Mlezcko will have the game’s latest news and interviews.

Over on ESPN+, Leah Hextall will anchor the streaming coverage of the Ducks and Wild. Boucher will join her in the analyst role while Linda Cohn will have all of that game’s latest news and interviews.

Arda Ocal, Ryan Callahan, and John Tortorella will provide mid-game discussion and analysis during intermissions.

More information on the ESPN networks’ NHL coverage is available along with all of the latest NHL headlines at https://www.espn.com/nhl.

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ESPN Networks Announce 2017 NCAA Frozen Four Broadcast Schedule

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March Madness is done, but it isn’t the only college sports tournament coming to an end.

The Frozen Four begins Thursday on ESPN2 at 6 p.m. E.T. with a 2-3 matchup between No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth and No. 3 Harvard. No.1 Denver will take on Notre Dame at 9:30 p.m.  The winners of those two games will face off April 8 for the college hockey championship live on ESPN.

Denver’s appearance in this year’s Frozen Four marks the second straight year that the Pioneers have advanced to the semi-final round of the college hockey’s championship tournament.  This year’s appearance is extra special for Harvard.  That is because it marks the first time since 1994 that the school has advanced to the Frozen Four.

Notre Dame has never won a college hockey championship, and while the team is no stranger to the Frozen Four, this year marks the first time in six years that it has advanced to the semi-final round of college hockey’s championship tournament.  Six years have passed since Minnesota-Duluth has been in the tournament’s semi-final round, too.  The last time the Bulldogs advanced to the Frozen Four, 2011, the team went on to win what is its only college hockey championship.

ESPN’s John Buccigross will have the call for both semi-final matchups and Saturday’s championship game.  He will be joined by ESPN hockey analyst Barry Melrose for additional commentary.  Reporter Quint Kessenich will have all of the latest in-game news and interviews.

Fans wanting a fully-immersive experience will get just that courtesy of ESPN3.  ESPN3 will offer audiences ice-level exposure courtesy of The Ref and Robo Cam.  The Robo Cam streaming option will allow fans to watch the games through a trio of cameras placed on the glass around the rink, capturing all of the natural sound from the games including arena noise.

The Ref Cam will be incorporated into the alternate presentation.

2017 marks the 24^th straight year that ESPN’s networks have carried the Frozen Four.  More information on the 2017 Frozen Four is available online now at:

 

 

 

Website: http://www.ncaa.com/frozenfour

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ncaamenshockey

Twitter: http://twitter.comNCAAIceHockey

 

 

 

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ESPN Releases Broadcast Schedule For 2016 Frozen Four Tournament

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The 2015 – 2016 college basketball season is all but wrapped up after Monday night’s men’s championship matchup between Villanova and UNC.  Tonight the women get their turn as UConn and Syracuse face off for their title.  College basketball may be getting all of the attention but it’s not the only sport that is wrapping up its season.  The annual “Frozen Four” tournament wraps up the 2015 – 2016 college hockey season this weekend.  And ESPN will have full coverage of the annual tournament.

Denver, North Dakota, Boston College, and Quinnipiac will vie for the NCAA college hockey title in this year’s Frozen Four.  The 2016 tournament will be carried across a number of ESPN’s platforms live from the site of the tournament, Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.  The tournament will be held this Thursday, April 7^th and Saturday, April 9^th.  Top-seeded Quinnipiac will take on Boston College in the first of the semi-final matchups Thursday at 5pm ET.  No. 3 seed North Dakota will take on the Pioneers of Denver in Thursday’s second game.  That game is scheduled for an 8:30pm ET start time.  The winners of those games will face off in the Frozen Four Championship match Saturday night at 8pm ET.

John Buccigross and Barry Melrose will have the call for all three of this weekend’s games.  Quint Kessenich will be between the benches for all of the games’ latest news and interviews.  Victoria Arlen makes her debut with the team this year.  She is a former Paralympian Gold Medalist.  She joined ESPN in 2015 and regularly reports for espnW, X Games, and SportsCenter.  All three games in this weekend’s Frozen Four Tournament will be carried live on ESPN2 and online via ESPN3 Surround.  The streaming option allows fans to watch the game from ice level via a trio of robotic cameras that are placed on the glass around the rink.  The trophy presentation will be carried online exclusively on ESPN3.

Along with the exclusive ice-level coverage via ESPN3 Surround, the refs in each game will be wearing mics, letting audiences hear from them at various points throughout the final three games.  On the studio side, Steve Levy will anchor ESPN’s studio coverage of this weekend’s tournament.  From ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, CT.  He will be joined by college hockey analysts Sean Ritchlin and Dave Starman for additional commentary.  Fans can also follow all of the scores, news, and more via Twitter at http://twitter.com/NCAAIceHockey and http://twitter.com/hashtag/frozenfour.  More information on this year’s Frozen Four tournament is available online now along with all of the latest college hockey news at:

 

Website: http://espn.go.com/college-sports

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ESPNU

 

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ESPN Networks Kick Off 2014 – 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Broadcast Schedule This Weekend

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ESPN and the ESPN family of networks will kick off their coverage of the 2014-2015 college hockey season tomorrow.

Officials with ESPN announced this week that ESPN will kick off coverage of the 2014-2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Season Sunday, November 9th.  This year’s coverage opens with a matchup of #15 Notre Dame (5 – 2 – 1) and #1 Minnesota (5 – 1). The game will be broadcast tomorrow live beginning at 5pm ET on ESPNU.  The game will be broadcast live from the campus of the University of Minnesota.

John Buccigross will anchor tomorrow’s broadcast.  He will be joined in the booth by Barry Melrose.

More information on the ESPN networks’ coverage of the 2014-2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Season is available online at

Website: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ESPNU

Twitter: http://twitter.com/espnu

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