NBC announces complete Olympic Hockey coverage!

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All 54 games of both the men's and women's hockey tournaments will be seen live on the networks of NBC Universal. This will mark the first time in U.S. television history that the entire Olympic women's tournament will be televised. All Team USA hockey games and the gold medal games, both men's and women's, will be broadcast commercial-free and in their entirety. The women's gold medal game will air live on President's Day, Monday, Feb. 20, on NBC. The men's gold medal game will air live on the final day of Olympic competition, Sunday, Feb. 26, on NBC.

"Our hockey coverage is a fan's dream come true, every U.S. game will be seen commercial free and in its entirety," Ebersol said. "Die-hard fans should mark their calendars for Wednesday, Feb. 22. It will be the single greatest day in hockey - all of the game's biggest stars will compete in the men's quarterfinals as the world's eight best teams all face off."


NHL.com (http://www.nhl.com/news/2006/01/251792.html)

Good to hear all the men's hockey games will be on, but do they really need to bother with the women's games? Surely there's better stuff on to watch than that.

That is simply outstanding.

Good to hear! :handclap:

Sweet!

Lucky you. I live in turin and i think i'll get...how many? 10 games??

Good to hear all the men's hockey games will be on, but do they really need to bother with the women's games? Surely there's better stuff on to watch than that.

The womens tourne could very well be better then the mens.There are 6 teams thats could take the gold.

I suspect this would belong to the sub-board..

anyway
all 54 games of both the men's and women's hockey tournaments will be seen live on the networks of NBC Universal..
All Team USA hockey games and the gold medal games, both men's and women's, will be broadcast commercial-free and in their entirety

"Our hockey coverage is a fan's dream come true, every U.S. game will be seen commercial free and in its entirety," .the last two quotes suggest to me that not every game will be broadcast in its entirety though.. and to show them live that's inevitable unless they use more than one channel to show icehockey Olympic games as some genius decided that the quarterfinals will be partially contemporary :dunno: :dunno:

Die-hard fans should mark their calendars for Wednesday, Feb. 22. It will be the single greatest day in hockey - all of the game's biggest stars will compete in the men's quarterfinals as the world's eight best teams all face off."I agree so much..
and what happens? the CL 1/8s are scheduled for February 21 and 22 as well!(Chelsea-Barca) :banghead:
and to make things worse the last round of the hockey tournament preliminary round will be played right the day before the quarters ( :shakehead ), on February 21st. :dunno:

I guess i will have to get only highlights of the CL games and watch on tape Chelsea-Barca during the night! :hyper:

Lucky you. I live in turin and i think i'll get...how many? 10 games??I think some more.. and then we can hope in Eurosport! ;) (you don't get it?)

The womens tourne could very well be better then the mens.There are 6 teams thats could take the gold. :biglaugh:

btw, in the men's tourney there are 7 teams that could take the gold medal, in the women's tourney there are..well..i would say one (i know in the last match US won, but i watched Canada-US live in November at the pre-Olympic test events and the two teams weren't even close..)

I havent eurosport :(

I havent eurosport :(But still..i know you use torrents! :D

Yeah...but is it a fair thing that a hoster of the olympics have to use torrents to get it?

Yeah...but is it a fair thing that a hoster of the olympics have to use torrents to get it?Obviously not. We still don't know though. But i fear even for the games they will broadcast they won't show the whole thing (jumping through other sports during the game :rolleyes: )

The womens tourne could very well be better then the mens.There are 6 teams thats could take the gold.

Except for the fact that women's hockey is a joke of a sport. Not only is it boring, but I can't convince myself to take it at all seriously when these "great" women's teams from the USA and Canada are losing to "men's" teams with high-school age boys.

Women's hockey might be the event in which I'm the least interested, over the whole winter Olympics.

Except for the fact that women's hockey is a joke of a sport. Not only is it boring, but I can't convince myself to take it at all seriously when these "great" women's teams from the USA and Canada are losing to "men's" teams with high-school age boys.

Women's hockey might be the event in which I'm the least interested, over the whole winter Olympics.
Most of the Olympics are an utter bore with otherwise meaningless sports getting their day in the sun. I'll take womens hockey over cross country skiing and the great biathalon. Slalom skiing, and the worst of the worst is figure skating and ice dancing. Nothing like some good old fashined corruption to taint the whole event. Women's hockey may not be the cream of the crop but there is more than enough crap to go around in the Winter Olympics.

Most of the Olympics are an utter bore with otherwise meaningless sports getting their day in the sun. I'll take womens hockey over cross country skiing and the great biathalon. Slalom skiing, and the worst of the worst is figure skating and ice dancing. Nothing like some good old fashined corruption to taint the whole event. Women's hockey may not be the cream of the crop but there is more than enough crap to go around in the Winter Olympics.

I'd rather watch all of those sports over women's hockey, easily. Skiing in particular is one of the best events at the Olympics and I'm almost as interested in the men's skiing as the men's hockey. And women's skiing is way better than women's hockey, the athletes are only a few levels down from their male counterparts.

I'd rather watch all of those sports over women's hockey, easily. Skiing in particular is one of the best events at the Olympics and I'm almost as interested in the men's skiing as the men's hockey. And women's skiing is way better than women's hockey, the athletes are only a few levels down from their male counterparts.
I like the high speed events like the downhill and super G - male or female. I like Bobsled and ski Jumping. There is still alot of crap however.

I'll take womens hockey over cross country skiing and the great biathalon. Slalom skiing, and the worst of the worst is figure skating... :shakehead

:shakehead
Well at least you did not defend figure skating. :)

Well at least you did not defend figure skating. :)Actually, even if i am not interested in it, i think figure skating (not ice dancing!) is better than the current women ice hockey. The bolded sport was only the most glaring disagreement.. cross country skiing and biathlon are more important as well imo. Speaking of crap i find really amazing you didn't mention curling! :)

Actually, even if i am not interested in it, i think figure skating (not ice dancing!) is better than the current women ice hockey. The bolded sport was only the most glaring disagreement.. cross country skiing and biathlon are more important as well imo. Speaking of crap i find really amazing you didn't mention curling! :)
Well I won't be watching any figure skating and probably will not see much curling. My only true interest is men's hockey. Won't miss a game. You really must hate women's hockey to consider Figure skating worth watching. I think we may as well put professional wrestling in if we are going to take figure skating seriously.

There is NOTHING wrong with curling. :)

Well I won't be watching any figure skating and probably will not see much curling. My only true interest is men's hockey. Won't miss a game. You really must hate women's hockey to consider Figure skating worth watching. I think we may as well put professional wrestling in if we are going to take figure skating seriously. :eek:
Wrestling is a complete joke, i don't know how you can even compare..
as much as you don't like it, figure skating is a sport, and with a high level of competition at the Olympics, Wrestling is not a sport, it's only a show (that i don't like btw).

I don't know if i will watch any figure skating cause, as i said, i don't care..
i don't hate women ice hockey and i could watch the decisive games if close ones. The point is at top level i find figure skating to be an enjoyable sport for those caring more than women ice hockey is at the current level for those caring (about ice hockey, like us); also, i have respect for figure skating athletes that are facing the pressure of putting 4 yrs of work on the line in few minutes where they can't make any mistake to have a chance to win.

And yes, the men's ice hockey Olympic tournament is by far my main interest, the only one i bought tickets for; actually it is for me the main tournament in the world of any sport since when the pro have been taking part.

I never tought I would ever say this but I cought myself enjoying ice dancing... :eek:
Particulary the part at the end of the tournament when they dance for fun after the medals are already won.

But men's ice hockey is by far the most important event in the tournament and overall the most important sport for me!

I'm also very interested in womens skiing! Janica Kostelic owns the world. :handclap: She will take 7 gold medals out of possible 5 (and all that skiing backwards on one ski) :yo:

Surely there's better stuff on to watch than that. Like what? Curling?

Has CBC posted a hockey schedule anywhere? I looked all over the CBC site and couldn't find anything.

If CBC is splitting time with TSN, then I could see all the games being televised at some point (although they might give precedence to some poor Canadian medal hopeful).

this is huge and great news.
in the last Olympics NBC had amazingly great coverage, every game in its entirety as i remember it. they use their secondary networks CNBC and MSNBC so they don't screw up their big-money net.

for feb 22nd q-final day, games start at 10:30 & 11:30 AM eastern north america time, the other two start at 2:30 and 3:30 PM eastern. that WILL be a great day for hockey! :)

It's in the afternoon. That is great news. I expected midnight.

Are they stating that they will guarantee to cover every U.S. hockey game, or every hockey game regardless of the country?

Edit: Nevermind. If they plan on broadcasting every game, how is that possible? Some of the games are broadcasted within an hour's difference.

Are they stating that they will guarantee to cover every U.S. hockey game, or every hockey game regardless of the country?

Edit: Nevermind. If they plan on broadcasting every game, how is that possible? Some of the games are broadcasted within an hour's difference.They have more than 1 station (ie, NBC affiliate) involved with the hockey tournament.

They have more than 1 station (ie, NBC affiliate) involved with the hockey tournament.

NBC, MSNBC, ABC is there more?

I would like to watch some games involving countries other than USA and Canada, so any linkies to official broadcast scheds would be appreciated.

NBC and MSNBC only. ABC and ESPN are owned by Disney, which doesn't broadcast hockey anymore.

Here's the complete TV schedule for ice hockey (I couldn't separate men's from women's)

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv/index.html?state=2&fromTimeInMillis=1140616800000&lineupId=MO24564:-&zipCode=63021&callSign=KSDK&genre=Ice%20Hockey

Looks like all games from the q-finals on will be shown in their entirety (hopefully no commercials, too, but that's probably wishfull thinking for all but US games).

NBC and MSNBC only. ABC and ESPN are owned by Disney, which doesn't broadcast hockey anymore.

Actually, USA will be broadcasting some of the men's and women's games, commercial free.

USA Hockey Coverage (http://www.usanetwork.com/sports/olympics/)


I'm trying to find a TV listing for the men's scedule, if I can't find a suitable link, then I will just take the information and create the schedule over here. If that's OK with everyone?

;)

looks like CBC is covering all the Canada games . . .

cbc.ca, then then click on TV, and the calendar comes up on the right, click any day for the broadcast schedule.

Hmmm, well hopefully my MSNBC digital cable link will pick these up in Canada....

Good to hear all the men's hockey games will be on, but do they really need to bother with the women's games? Surely there's better stuff on to watch than that.


they should play other non-USA mens games during those time slots, minus the womens championship game

There is NOTHING wrong with curling. :)
I rather watch curling than short track speed skating. Remember how ridiculous some of the climaxes at the last Olympic were? I remember a guy winning a medal by crawling to the finish line or the least fastest skater winning gold because those before all fell down. They're like gladiators on skates... ridiculous.