The first all-cable Stanley Cup Final in 29 years will have the benefit of a multi-network simulcast.
Every game of the Stanley Cup Final on TNT will be simulcast on at least one other Warner Bros. Discovery cable channel. TruTV will simulcast every game, and TBS will carry games on every night except for this coming Wednesday (if the series moves up) and Tuesday, June 13. TBS has prior commitments to carry All-Elite Wrestling (May 31) and Major League Baseball (June 13) on those nights.
The Cup Final will begin Wednesday or a week from Saturday depending on whether the Golden Knights-Stars Western Conference Final continues past Game 5. [Related: Stanley Cup Playoff TV schedule.]
The multi-network simulcast is not uncommon for the Turner networks, as every NCAA men’s Final Four and National Championship game on Turner has aired across TBS, TNT and TruTV.
This year’s Cup Final is the first to air exclusively on cable since Canucks-Rangers on ESPN in 1994. Under the NHL media rights deals reached two years ago, Turner has rights to the Cup Final every-other-year and will carry the event again in 2025 and 2027. Of the “Big Four” sports leagues, the NHL is the only one whose championship games air on cable.
There is no record of any previous Stanley Cup Final game airing across multiple national U.S. networks, though in 1994 MSG Network carried the entire Canucks-Rangers series locally in New York. ESPN’s national coverage was blacked out in the market.
(News from NHL)
