NHL announces TV schedule for qualifying round series, round-robin games

The NHL kicks off its 2020 playoffs on August 1st when the league drops the puck for its qualifying round. 16 teams are competing for the 5th through 8 seeds in each conference, and the top four in each conference are playing a round-robin to finalize the top four seeds.

The league announced the dates and times for each series last week, and this week, they released broadcast information for watching the games in the United States and Canada. The schedule below lists TV channel information for the first three games in each series and the opening portion of the round-robin. The rest is TBD as we figure out which end up necessary.

The schedule is a packed one in the two hub cities, with hockey running all day starting at noon ET in Toronto. The puck drops for the final game each night at 10:30 p.m. in Edmonton. We get over 12 hours per day of playoff-level hockey for the first part of August, and it’s going to be a wild ride.

The NBC networking will broadcast hockey across its slate of channels in the United States. We’ll see games on NBC, NBCSN, and USA Network, and then also on NHL Network, NHL.TV, and NHL Center Ice. In Canada, Sportsnet, CBC, and TVA Sports will broadcast the daily slates.

Here is the complete schedule. We’ll update the TBD games as more information comes available.