The Pittsburgh Penguins will play nearly a fifth of their games on national television for the upcoming season, the NHL and its network rightsholders, ESPN and Turner Sports, announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Starting with their season opener Oct. 7 at the New York Rangers, the Penguins will take part in 16 nationally broadcasted games \u2014 five on ESPN, four on ABC, one on ESPN+\/Hulu and six on TNT.<\/p>\n
SportsNet Pittsburgh enters its third season as the local broadcast partner for the Penguins. Josh Getzoff returns as the play-by-play voice, with a rotation of analysts Colby Armstrong and Phil Bourque. Hailey Hunter and Dan Potash are back as rinkside reporters.<\/p>\n
Fans can also hear Penguins games on 105.9 The X and the Penguins Radio Network. Joe Brand will handle play-by-play duties with Bourque providing color commentary.<\/p>\n
Below is the full list of Pittsburgh\u2019s nationally televised games:<\/p>\n
Date, Game, Time, Network <\/p>\n
Oct. 7, at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Oct. 28, at Philadelphia, 6 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Nov. 6, vs. Washington, 7:30 p.m., ESPN+\/Hulu<\/p>\n
Dec. 16, vs. Edmonton, 7:30 p.m., TNT<\/p>\n
Dec. 23, at Toronto, 4 p.m., TNT<\/p>\n
Jan. 3, at Detroit, noon, ABC<\/p>\n
Jan. 15, vs. Philadelphia, 7 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
Jan. 31, vs. N.Y. Rangers, 3:30 p.m., ABC<\/p>\n
Feb. 3, at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m., TNT<\/p>\n
Feb. 28, at N.Y. Rangers, 12:30 p.m., ABC<\/p>\n
March 1, vs. Vegas, 1 p.m., TNT<\/p>\n
March 8, vs. Boston, 4:30 p.m., TNT<\/p>\n
March 16, at Colorado, 9:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
April 11, vs. Washington, 3 p.m., ABC<\/p>\n
April 12, at Washington, 3 p.m., TNT<\/p>\n
April 14, at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m., ESPN<\/p>\n
*All times Eastern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins will play nearly a fifth of their games on national television for the upcoming season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-114866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}