However, in June, the auction was cancelled, and Alex Meruelo left the ownership, leading the team to cease operations.
The Arizona Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings played on September 23 and 24 at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, best known as the main venue for the Australian Open.
The league held four regular season games on four consecutive days at Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
The following players led the league in regular season points at the completion of games played on April 18, 2024.
This included Sportsnet's sub-licensing agreements to air Saturday Hockey Night in Canada games on CBC Television and French-language broadcasts on TVA Sports.
[185] On December 18, analyst Cassie Campbell-Pascall left Sportsnet to become a special advisor in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).
[187] This was the third season of the league's seven-year U.S. national broadcast rights deals with the ESPN family of networks and TNT Sports.
[190] For the second consecutive season, ESPN collaborated with Disney Channel on a youth-oriented alternate broadcast, using the NHL's player and puck tracking system to render a live animated version of the March 9, 2024, Pittsburgh Penguins–Boston Bruins game, portrayed by characters from the animated series Big City Greens.
Not all of TNT's regular season games were exclusive broadcasts and were thus subject to blackout in local markets.
[202] The next day, the Coyotes announced a new television agreement with the E. W. Scripps Company's sports division Scripps Sports, under which it carried games on a subchannel of its Phoenix broadcast station and ABC affiliate KNXV-TV, and syndicate them to sister stations in the team's broadcast territory, including KGUN-TV in Tucson, Arizona, and KUPX-TV and KSTU-DT2 in Salt Lake City.
[208][209] On May 4, 2023, the Golden Knights signed a multi-year agreement with Scripps Sports to start airing games on Scripps' Las Vegas broadcast station KMCC, and syndicate the telecasts to other stations across the team's broadcast territory; both KMCC and Salt Lake City's KUPX-TV were converted from Ion Television stations to independents to accommodate the team's broadcasts, along with Scripps's Montana Television Network, whose second digital subchannels previously carried The CW.
The channel is operated by NESN—the regional broadcaster of the Boston Bruins—which is majority-owned by the Penguins' parent company Fenway Sports Group.
[211][212] ESPN/ABC studio analyst Chris Chelios, who served in the role for two seasons, left the network as part of its June 2023 cost-cutting measures.
[215][216] TNT ice-level analyst Keith Jones left the network to become president of hockey operations with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Pang, who spent 14 years in the same role with the St. Louis Blues and is also a color commentator on TNT, replaces both Colby Cohen, whose contract with the team was not renewed[219][220] and Patrick Sharp, who left to also join the Flyers front office, along with Keith Jones.
[221] The Los Angeles Kings started using TV/radio simulcasts, keeping radio announcers Nick Nickson and Daryl Evans, and TV analyst Jim Fox.
[224] To replace him, a rotation of Colby Armstrong, Mike Rupp, and Phil Bourque, who also provides color commentary on radio, is used.
[225] The Seattle Kraken hired Al Kinisky as their radio analyst, replacing Dave Tomlinson, who moved to the Vancouver Canucks television booth.
Rimer, the TV voice of the Blue Jackets starting in the 2005–06 season, also had stints with the Washington Capitals and the Florida Panthers.
Edwards joined the Bruins broadcast team before the 2005–06 season after several stints as an anchor and reporter on various networks, most notably with ESPN's SportsCenter.