NBC hockey broadcaster Mike Emrick at Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final in Boston on May 29, 2019. Credit: AP/Charles Krupa
Hockey is back! But for many of your favorite announcers, the experience will be a lot like yours: watching games on television.
Such is life during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12 NHL teams set to play three playoff rounds in Toronto and 12 others in Edmonton before the final four convene in Edmonton for the conference finals and Stanley Cup Final.
For New York-area fans, it begins on Wednesday night with an exhibition between the Rangers and Islanders that MSG and MSG+ will carry with the team’s regular announcing crews.