2011-12 NHL regular season start- More than 300 of the NHL's regular season contests will be televised by the League's national broadcast partners during the 2011-12 season. The League unveiled the national television schedule for the upcoming season Thursday, highlighted by the 2011 Compuware NHL Premiere games and a Friday matinee on NBC the day after Thanksgiving. The defending champion Boston Bruins open the NHL season by welcoming Philadelphia to TD Garden on Oct. 6 on Versus, while CBC will broadcast Montreal at Toronto. Both networks have a doubleheader that night, with Pittsburgh at Vancouver acting as the nightcap for both.
The Compuware NHL Premiere games start the next day, with the New York Rangers playing the Los Angeles Kings on TSN and Versus at Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, while the Buffalo Sabres and Anaheim Ducks play at Hartwell Arena in Helsinki. On Oct. 8, Anaheim and New York square off in Stockholm on TSN and Versus, while Buffalo and Los Angeles will play at World Arena in Berlin on TSN2.
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