NHL Game of the Week

The National Hockey League Game of the Week is a branding used for regular season National Hockey League weekend games that are typically televised on a national broadcast network in the U.S.

NHL Game of the Week
GenreNHL game telecasts
Presented bySean McDonough
Ray Ferraro
Emily Kaplan
Bob Wischusen
A. J. Mleczko
Leah Hextall
Dave Jackson
Steve Levy
Mark Messier
P. K. Subban
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons15
Production
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time180 minutes or until game ends
Production companyNBC Sports (2006-2021) ESPN (2021-present)
Original release
NetworkNBC
ABC
ReleaseJanuary 14, 2006 (2006-01-14) - May 8, 2021 (2021-05-08) (NBC);
November 26, 2021 (2021-11-26) - present (ABC)
Related
NHL on NBC
NHL on ABC

The branding was previously used by NBC on Sunday afternoons, beginning at the weekend of the NFL Conference Championship games when it held NHL broadcast rights between the 2005–06 and 2020–21 seasons. During the 2016–17, NBC began to promote the Star Sunday brand on both the Game of the Week and its Sunday Night Hockey broadcasts on sister cable network NBCSN, focusing primarily on the NHL's star players. Star Sunday featured extensive pre-game, in-game and post-game coverage of each featured player. The first game under the new package featured the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings on January 22, 2017, with Ryan McDonagh and Dylan Larkin the featured players of their respective teams.

Beginning with the 2021-22 season, ABC replaced NBC as the league's network broadcast partner. Since then, ABC has typically aired one game per weekend, usually on Saturday afternoons, beginning in February. Due to the current arrangement of ABC's sports programming being produced and co-branded by ESPN, the broadcasts carry the NHL on ESPN production and branding.

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