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Friday, May 4th, 2012

FOUR GAME 4s THIS WEEKEND

2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs: Days 24-26 Phoenix @ Nashville, 7:30 p.m. ET Tonight – NBC Sports Network (Phoenix leads 2-1)

NEW YORK – May 4, 2012 – Days 24-26 – The NBC Sports Group continues its exclusive coverage of the Conference Semifinals with four Game 4s this weekend beginning tonight on NBC Sports Network. NBC will broadcast games Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Tonight’s coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET with NHL Live on NBC Sports Network.

TONIGHT

The Western Conference Semifinals continue tonight with the #4 Nashville Predators hosting the #3 Phoenix Coyotes at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network (Coyotes lead series 2-1). Tonight’s schedule (all times ET):

7:30 p.m.

#3 Pho @ #4 Nas (Game 4)

NBCSN

John Forslund, Joe Micheletti

 

TOMORROW

Saturday’s Eastern Conference Game 4 features the #7 Washington Capitals hosting the #1 New York Rangers at 12:30 p.m. ET on NBC. Game 3 on Wednesday ended in a historic fashion with a New York Rangers goal in triple overtime to give the Rangers a 2-1 victory and a 2-1 series lead. Tomorrow’s schedule (all times ET):

12:30 p.m.

#1 NYR @ #7 WAS (Game 4)

NBC

Doc Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Pierre McGuire

 

SUNDAY

Sunday’s games begin in the Western Conference with the #8 Los Angeles Kings hosting the #2 St. Louis Blues, who face elimination, at 3 p.m. ET on NBC (Kings lead series 3-0). Moving to the Eastern Conference, the #4 New Jersey Devils look to extend their 2-1 series lead with a home-ice advantage against the #5 Philadelphia Flyers at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network. Sunday’s schedule (all times ET):

3 p.m.

#2 STL @ #8 LAK (Game 4)

NBC

Dave Strader, Brian Engblom

7:30 p.m.

#5 PHI @ #6 NJ (Game 4)

NBCSN

Kenny Albert, Pierre McGuire

 

 

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 and Flyers, will closely follow hometown team playoff progress with pre- and post-game coverage, breaking news and analysis throughout each team’s playoff run. CSN Philadelphia will be doing live pre- and post-game programs for all Flyers games in the second round and CSN Mid-Atlantic will have one-hour Capitals Postgame Live shows for all Capitals games in the second round.  Both networks 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.

NBC Sports Network

34*

CNBC

13

NBC

8

NHL Network

6

 

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