I’ve been getting some questions about this one, so:
If you missed my discussion of the preseason game television/radio situation in yesterday’s practice impressions:
- Tonight’s game between the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks (8:30 PM EDT start) will be “Joined in Progress” by the NHL Network, which is airing a 7 PM-start game between the Devils and Caps first (so the game will be joined in progress around 9:30), and it airs on NBC Sports Chicago Plus in the Blackhawks’ TV area.
- Ken Kal and Paul Woods will also cover the game on the radio:
Hey Red Wings fans, Paul Woods and I will be calling tonight’s game from Chicago. You can hear all the action at 8:15pm @WWJ950 #tunein— Ken Kal (@KenKalDRW) September 29, 2021
3. Kal and Woods will also webcast the Red Wings-Sabres game on Thursday, September 30th (that’s tomorrow, a 7:30 PM EST start) on the Wings’ YouTube channel:
4. I have been told that the Red Wings’ exhibition games vs. Columbus on Saturday (7 PM EDT), Chicago on Monday (7:30 PM EDT) and Thursday vs. Pittsburgh (7:30 PM EDT) will all air on Bally Sports Detroit;
5. Kal and the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan gave me the following radio schedule yesterday:
September 30 vs. Buffalo will air starting at 7:15 PM on WWJ;
October 6 @ Columbus starts at 6:45 PM 97.1 the Ticket;
And October 7th vs. Pittsburgh starts at 7 PM 97.1 the Ticket.
6. I am fairly certain that Sunday’s matinee game vs. Pittsburgh (1 PM EDT start) will be streamed but geo-blocked on the Penguins’ website, as they’re streaming their home games;
7. The other two games, at Columbus on October 6th (7 PM EDT) and Buffalo on October 9th (3 PM EDT start) are Mystery Games as far as TV or web coverage goes.
There have been rumblings of the Blue Jackets and Sabres picking up other teams’ streams, so they don’t seem to be doing their own thing. We’ll find out what happens with these two games over the course of the next week.
