NHL Center Ice Package News!!

I read an interesting article on Yahoo Sports' hockey blog Puck Daddy about the NHL Center Ice package.  A lot of good points in the article so definitely go check it out.

Here are some of the major points from the article. 
The price has gone up $8.00 from $163.80 to $171.80.  Which in the end is really not that big of a deal.

You can watch a free full-preview of Center Ice from October 7th-24th.  This is great because there is still no word on the whole HDtv issue running around the package over the last few years.  I for one will not buy the package without HD because the picture just doesn't add up to the price for me.  It is apparently on the cable providers to provide the HD feed so I guess we can all find out if ours does during the free preview.

Go check the article for the rest of the news.

NYRangers National TV Schedule!!

Today the NHL announced its National TV schedule.  Versus will carry 78 games which is 13 more then last season.  While NBC will continue its flex scheduling option so most dates do not have a specific game chosen yet.  Here are the 11 games the Rangers will play on Versus and 5 "options" for NBC:

Versus:
Monday October 18th vs. Colorado
Tuesday November 9th vs. Washington
Wednesday November 17th vs. Boston
Wednesday December 15th at Pittsburgh
Monday January 24th at Washington
Tuesday February 1st vs. Pittsburgh
Monday February 7th at Detroit
Tuesday March 1st vs. Buffalo
Wednesday March 30th at Buffalo
Monday April 4th vs. Boston
Thursday April 7th vs. Atlanta

NBC:(All games on Sunday)(Flex Schedule)
February 13th vs. Pittsburgh
February 20th vs. Philadelphia
March 6th vs. Philadelphia
March 20th at Pittsburgh
April 3rd at Philadelphia