NHL on NBC
Name Region served NHL team rights Notes
NBC Sports California Northern and central California San Jose Sharks Created in 2008 , in conjunction with Maloof Sports & Entertainment ( owners of the Kings and Monarchs ) , after the company did not renew their television contract with FSN Bay Area
NBC Sports Chicago Illinois , northwestern Indiana , Iowa , non-Milwaukee market areas of southern Wisconsin Chicago Blackhawks NBC owns 20% of this joint venture with the Bulls , Blackhawks , White Sox , and Cubs ( who own 20% each themselves )
NBC Sports Northwest Oregon and Washington Vancouver Canucks
NBC Sports Philadelphia Philadelphia , eastern Pennsylvania , Delaware , southern and central New Jersey Philadelphia Flyers Channel serves as flagship of the Comcast SportsNet . Replaced PRISM and SportsChannel Philadelphia as the local broadcaster of the Flyers in 1997
NBC Sports Washington Delaware , Maryland , south-central Pennsylvania , Virginia , Washington , D.C. , West Virginia Washington Capitals
NHL coverage on NBC owned-and-operated television stations -- NBC Sports Regional Networks
The NHL on NBC is a presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on NBC and NBCSN in the United States. While NBC has covered the league at various points in its history, the network's current relationship with the NHL is the result of NBC Sports acquiring the league's broadcast television rights from ABC in 2005. Its current contract with the league runs until 2021. Since 2008, NBC's regular season coverage includes the annual NHL Winter Classic, an outdoor game usually played on New Year's Day; one national weekly regular season game each Sunday afternoon after New Year's Day, titled NHL Game of the Week; one week of regionally televised contests in February for Hockey Weekend Across America; and one nationally televised game one day after Thanksgiving. NBCSN's coverage includes 90 regular season games that are mostly aired on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, and later in the season on Sunday nights, titled Sunday Night Hockey. Coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is split between NBC and NBCSN, with CNBC and the USA Network (beginning in 2015) airing selected playoff games during the first two rounds.