Television Coverage
In the United States, NBC broadcast the first two and final three games of the Final, while Versus broadcast games three and four. The first two games of the series were played on consecutive nights due to NBC's scheduling. In Canada, all games of the Final were broadcast in English on the CBC and in French on the cable network RDS. CBC had a new broadcast team calling the Final with Jim Hughson as play-by-play announcer, and Craig Simpson as colour commentator.
Game 7 was the final major sporting event on analog television in the United States, with the DTV transition finishing less than an hour-and-a-half after the game ended and just one hour after NBC coverage ended. NBC affiliates WDIV-TV in Detroit and WPXI in Pittsburgh – who months before the Stanley Cup playoffs began electing to keep their own respective analog signals on until June 12, well past the original February 17 deadline – both remained on the air for Game 7 before cutting their analog signals at 11:59 EDT.
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