Canucks release broadcast schedule
5 years ago
The Canucks and Sportsnet have released the 2018-19 broadcast schedule with very little surprises.
The full schedule can be found here:
There aren’t really any surprises to this announcement as all 82 regular season games will be broadcast on the various Sportsnet and CBC platforms. The entirety of the pre-season will be scheduled with the exception of the game on Monday, September 24th in Salt Lake City vs the Los Angeles Kings.
All games will be radio broadcast on Sportsnet 650. From the press release:
Sportsnet 650 is the exclusive radio home of Vancouver Canucks hockey, broadcasting every game live including all seven Canucks pre-season matchups. Play-by-play announcer Brendan Batchelor returns to the broadcast booth alongside analyst Corey Hirsch. For weekend broadcasts, Joey Kenward and Alex Auld will deliver pre-game intermission and post-game insight, while Andrew Walker and Scott Rintoul cover pre-game duties during weekday home games. Canucks reporter Mira Laurence completes the radio broadcast team, providing intermission and post-game updates rink side.
Back in the day, there was a handful of regular season games that weren’t broadcast and you had to listen on the radio or wait until Sportscentre to find out the score. Then there was the pay-per-view age that eventually went away. Given that history and how readily available each game is now, it makes announcements like this a little less dramatic.
The puck drops at Young Stars on September 7th and the pre-season kicks off 11 days later.
