On Tuesday it was officially announced that Turner Sports would be the NHL’s second broadcast partner in the United States. They will join ESPN/Disney as the visual presentation of the sport for the next seven years. After sixteen years of watching the league on NBC it will be weird seeing it on a different network.
It will be interesting to see what changes the two networks bring to their coverage over the better part of the next decade. Don’t expect all of those voices you’ve come to love to hate to go away. The on-air talent for NBC will be available for ESPN and Turner Sports to choose from so it’s unlikely Pierre McGuire is out of our lives.