It’s always a good thing when two of the NHL’s Original Six teams square off. On Wednesday, the New York Rangers take on the Chicago Blackhawks live from the United Center in Chiberia at 8 p.m.
Doc Emrick, Ed Olcyzk and Pierre McGuire will call the game.
Wednesday’s game marks the first team the Rangers and Blackhawks will have faced each other since the 2011-12 season.
Here’s the NBCSN press release.
RANGERS-BLACKHAWKS WEDNESDAY NIGHT RIVALRY MATCHUP HIGHLIGHTS 22 HOURS OF HOCKEY COVERAGE THIS WEEK ON NBCSN
Team USA’s Patrick Kane and Blackhawks Host Three-Time Olympian Henrik Lundqvist and Rangers on Wednesday Night Rivalry at 8 p.m. ET
This Week’s NHL Coverage Boasts 26 Players Named to 2014 Olympic Teams, Including 17 Between Rangers and Blackhawks
Harvard Faces 2013 NCAA National Champion No. 10 Yale in “Rivalry on Ice” Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN From Madison Square GardenSTAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 7, 2014 – NBCSN will present 22 hours of NHL and college hockey coverage this week, highlighted by an Original Six showdown on Wednesday Night Rivalry, when Team USA’s Patrick Kane and the Chicago Blackhawks host three-time Swedish Olympic Team goaltender Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN.
This week’s coverage includes a college hockey clash between Harvard and No. 10 Yale in the “Rivalry on Ice” Saturday at 8 p.m. ET from Madison Square Garden, a Metropolitan Division battle between the Philadelphia Flyers and Rangers on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, and features 26 players who were selected to represent their respective countries at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi next month.
Emmy Award-winning play-by-play commentator Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, analyst Eddie Olczyk and Emmy Award-winning ‘Inside-the-Glass’ analyst Pierre McGuire will have the call from United Center in Chicago, Ill.
Wednesday’s matchup is the first game between the Rangers and Blackhawks this season, and the first between the two teams since the 2011-12 season. The Rangers are coming off of a 4-3 shootout loss to the Blue Jackets last night, while Chicago enters play following a 3-2 shootout loss to San Jose on Sunday. The defending-champion Blackhawks are tied with the Ducks for the most points in the NHL (67), are currently riding a 10-game point streak (6-0-4), and have not lost in regulation at home since Dec. 5.
The Rangers-Blackhawks Wednesday Night Rivalry matchup also features 17 players that will represent their countries at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, including four from Team USA. For the Blackhawks, Kane (United States), Jonathan Toews (Canada), Duncan Keith (Canada), Patrick Sharp (Canada), Michal Rozsival (Czech Republic), Johnny Oduya (Sweden), Niklas Hjalmarsson (Sweden), Marcus Kruger (Sweden), Marian Hossa (Slovakia), and Michal Handzus (Slovakia) are all headed to Sochi in February. The Rangers boast three Team USA members (Ryan Callahan, Ryan McDonagh and Derek Stepan), in addition to Lundqvist (Sweden), Carl Hagelin (Sweden), Rick Nash (Canada) and Mats Zuccarello (Norway).
NHL coverage continues Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on NBCSN, when the Flyers travel to New York to face the Rangers. Emrick and McGuire will have the call from Madison Square Garden.
NBCSN’s 2013-14 college hockey coverage continues this week, highlighted by one of the oldest rivalries in college sports, when Harvard faces 2013 NCAA Division I champion No. 10 Yale at Madison Square Garden in the “Rivalry on Ice” on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. Strader and McGuire will provide commentary.
NBCSN’s college hockey coverage begins Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET, when No. 14 Notre Dame hosts Alabama-Huntsville. Dan Parkhurst (play-by-play) and Anson Carter (analyst) will have the call from the Compton Family Ice Arena in South Bend, Ind.
NHL Live, NBC Sports Group live NHL pre-game and post-game studio show, begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN on Tuesday and Sunday, and at 7 p.m. ET prior to Wednesday Night Rivalry. Liam McHugh will host NHL Live with former players and analysts Mike Milbury, Keith Jones and Jeremy Roenick.
NBC Sports Live Extra – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, and tablets – will stream all 2013-14 NHL regular-season games televised on NBCSN, including this week’s Flyers-Devils, Rangers-Blackhawks, and Flyers-Rangers matchups, Notre-Dame-Alabama Huntsville, and the Harvard-Yale “Rivalry on Ice” game
Date Coverage Network Time (ET) Wed., January 8 NHL Top 10 NBCSN 6:30 p.m. NHL Live NBCSN 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Chicago NBCSN 8 p.m. Thu., January 9 N.Y. Rangers at Chicago (Encore) NBCSN 7:30 a.m. NHL Top 10 NBCSN 6:30 p.m. NHL Top 10 NBCSN 7 p.m. NHL Top 10 NBCSN 7:30 p.m. Fri., January 10 Alabama Huntsville at No. 14 Notre Dame NBCSN 7:30 p.m. Sat., January 11 Harvard vs. No. 10 Yale – “Rivalry on Ice” NBCSN 8 p.m. Sun., January 12 NHL Live NBCSN 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers NBCSN 7 p.m.
That will do it.
