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Thursday, May 10th, 2012

GAMES 1 & 2 OF CONFERENCE FINALS SET

NEW YORK – May 10, 2012 – Day 30 – The NBC Sports Group’s coverage of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs continues Saturday night with an Eastern Conference Semifinal Game 7, and Sunday night with the first game of the Western Conference Final.

CONFERENCE FINALS SCHEDULE

The NHL announced the schedule for the first two games of both the Western and Eastern Conference Finals today. In the West, the #3 Phoenix Coyotes host the #8 Los Angeles Kings on Sunday and Tuesday nights. In the East, the #6 New Jersey Devils await the winner of the #1 New York Rangers and #7 Washington Capitals series. The Eastern Conference Final will begin on Monday night.  (all times ET and subject to change)

GAME 7

The #1 New York Rangers host the #7 Washington Capitals in Game 7 of their series at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night on NBC Sports Network. With the series tied 3-3, both teams fight to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals with a win. Neither team has won two consecutive games in this series. Five of the series’ six games have been decided by one goal with two ending in overtime. Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst), and Pierre McGuire (Inside-the-Glass analyst) will call the game. Coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. with NHL Live on NBC Sports Network.

“THE SPRING OF DOC”

In May 14^th’s issue of Sports Illustrated, Michael Farber writes: “Thirty-nine one-goal games, 20 decided in OT, three Game 7s: Nobody captures the drama of NHL Spring quite like the erudite Mike Emrick… This is the spring of Doc… He surely is among the most remarkable working in any sport. Emrick is a hybrid. He uses his voice like an instrument, modulating it to impute significance to a moment in the manner of classic old-school announcers… Beyond tracking the puck from Player A to Player B, he marbles his calls with information and pertinent digression and wry humor, which makes him as fresh as some of the other leading practitioners of hockey’s modern style.”

CHANNEL FINDER

With all 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoff games airing nationally for the first time and the Conference Semifinals being carried exclusively on either NBC, NBC Sports Network or CNBC, the NBC Sports Group created a channel finder to help fans find those channels in their area by simply entering a zip code.

Click here for the channel finder.

COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL COVERAGE

Comcast SportsNet, the local home for the Capitals, will closely follow hometown team playoff progress with pre- and post-game coverage, breaking news and analysis throughout each team’s playoff run. CSN Mid-Atlantic will have one-hour Capitals Postgame Live shows for all Capitals games in the second round. It will also have extensive coverage online.

GAMES TELEVISED SO FAR

For the first time in the 95-year history of the NHL, every Stanley Cup Playoff game will be televised nationally. The NBC Sports Group will provide unprecedented access to the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs in April, May and June, televising as many as 105 playoff games and possibly more than 262.5 hours of programming. Games will be presented on NBC, the NBC Sports Network, the NHL Network, and NBCUniversal’s business channel CNBC in primetime.

* Includes Devils-Panthers Conference Quarterfinal Game 7 that was joined in progress