NHL All-Star Game returns to network television for first time since 2004
Pacific Division forward John Scott looks into the stands during the NHL All-Star championship game against the Atlantic Division Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. The Pacific Division won 1-0 and Scott was named MVP. Credit: AP / Mark Humphrey
NBC announced it will carry the 2017 NHL All-Star Game from Los Angeles on Jan. 29 on its main broadcast channel rather than NBCSN.
It will be the first network-television broadcast of the event since 2004, and the first on NBC since 1994, a game played at Madison Square Garden.
Last season’s “game” in Nashville, actually a 3-on-3 tournament, on NBCSN was the most-watched All-Star Game since NBC acquired rights to the event in 2005-06.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
