NHL on CBS

January 26, 1957

|New York at Boston

February 2, 1957

|New York at Detroit

February 9, 1957

February 16, 1957

|Boston at Chicago

February 23, 1957

March 2, 1957

|New York at Boston

March 9, 1957

|Detroit at Boston

===1957–58===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

November 2, 1957{{Cite news |date=1957-11-02 |title=ON TELEVISION |language=en-US |page=39 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/11/02/archives/on-television.html |access-date=2023-09-03 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite book |last= |first= |author-link= |date=January 8, 1957|title=Billboard Jul 8, 1957 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSEEAAAAMBAJ&q=National+Hockey+League+on+CBS&pg=PA3|location= |publisher= |page= |isbn=}}

|Boston at New York

November 9, 1957

|New York at Chicago

November 16, 1957

November 23, 1957

November 30, 1957

|Detroit at New York

December 7, 1957

|Chicago at Boston

December 14, 1957

|New York at Detroit

December 21, 1957

January 4, 1958

|Boston at New York

January 11, 1958

January 18, 1958

|New York at Chicago

January 25, 1958

|Detroit at Boston

February 1, 1958

|Chicago at New York

February 8, 1958

|New York at Detroit

February 15, 1958

February 22, 1958

|Boston at Detroit

March 1, 1958

|Boston at Chicago

March 8, 1958

March 15, 1958

|New York at Boston

March 22, 1958

===1958–59===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

October 18, 1958

October 25, 1958

|Chicago at New York

November 1, 1958

|Detroit at Boston

November 8, 1958

November 15, 1958

|Montreal at Chicago

November 22, 1958

|Detroit at Boston

November 29, 1958

|Boston at New York

December 6, 1958

January 3, 1959

|Boston at Detroit

January 10, 1959

|Detroit at New York

January 17, 1959

|New York at Chicago

January 24, 1959

January 31, 1959

|Chicago at Boston

February 7, 1959

|Chicago at New York

February 14,1959

February 21, 1959

February 28, 1959

|Boston at Chicago

March 7, 1959

|New York at Chicago

March 14, 1959

|Detroit at Boston

March 21, 1959

|New York at Detroit

===1959–60===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

January 9, 1960

|Detroit at New York

January 16, 1960

January 23, 1960

|New York at Chicago

January 30, 1960

|Detroit at Boston

February 6, 1960

|Chicago at New York

February 13, 1960

February 20, 1960

|Boston at Detroit

February 27, 1960

|Boston at Chicago

March 5, 1960

|New York at Chicago

March 12, 1960

|Detroit at Boston

March 19, 1960

|New York at Detroit

The Toronto Maple Leafs did not appear on the schedule because the team played at home every Saturday night during the season.

=1967–1972 version=

==Coverage==

For six seasons, from {{NHL Year|1966}}{{cite news|title=Wirtz dusts off sale sign|url=https://www.thestar.com/mobile/sports/article/205246|author=Rick Westhead|newspaper=Toronto Star|publisher=Torstar Corporation|date=April 20, 2007}}{{cite news|title=NHL Signs Rich TV Contract|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=25A|date=September 23, 1966}}{{cite news|title=NHL nets rich pact for CBS-TV coverage|author=Phil Elderkin|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|page=10|date=September 24, 1966}}{{cite news|title=Sportslook|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|page=B2|date=September 24, 1966}} through {{NHL Year|1971}},{{Cite news |last=Eskenazi |first=Gerald |date=1972-07-07 |title=N.H.L. and N.B.C Sign $7-Million Pact |language=en-US |page=25 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/07/archives/nhl-and-nbc-sign-7million-pact.html |access-date=2022-01-22 |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news|title=NBC wants to get out after messing up NHL telecasts|author=Gary Deeb|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|publisher=Tribune Publishing|page=C3|date=June 3, 1975}} CBS aired a game each week{{cite news|title=NHL Lists Security Campaign|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=28|date=March 10, 1970}}{{cite news|title=Athletics' Owner Finley May Buy Oakland Seals|author=United Press International|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=48A|date=May 20, 1970}} between mid-January until early-mid May in every season, mainly on a Sunday afternoon,{{cite magazine|title=A Canadian Critic Grows Restless Over The Usurpation Of His Country's Gift To Sport

|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1972/03/13/a-canadian-critic-grows-restless-over-the-usurpation-of-his-countrys-gift-to-sport|author=Mordecai Richler|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=March 13, 1972}} including playoffs.{{cite magazine|title=In Year 2 Of The New Era The Boom Goes On|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1968/10/14/550885/in-year-2-of-the-new-era-the-boom-goes-on|author=Gary Ronberg|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=October 14, 1968}} Each American based franchise was paid US$100,000 annually for the first two years of the initial contract and $150,000 for the third.{{cite book|title=Federal statutory exemptions from antitrust law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSG__dm7tYUC&q=National+Hockey+League+on+CBS&pg=PA224|publisher=ABA Publishing|page=224|year= 2007|isbn= 9781590318645}} From 1968–69{{cite magazine|title=Tv Made It All A New Game|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1969/12/22/tv-made-it-all-a-new-game|author=William Johnson|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=December 22, 1969}}{{cite news|title=NHL television opener Feb. 12, Hawks vs. Wings|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|page=7|date=December 23, 1966}}{{cite news|title=CBS and NHL Make Agreement For One Year|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=27|date=August 5, 1969}}{{Cite news |date=1969-08-05 |title=Networks Get 1-Year Extensions Of Pro Football, Hockey Pacts |language=en-US |page=30 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/05/archives/networks-get-1year-extensions-of-pro-football-hockey-pacts.html |access-date=2022-01-22 |issn=0362-4331}} through 1971–72, the intermission studio was called "CBS Control," just like with its NFL coverage.

Due to prior programming commitments, CBS did not broadcast regular season games during the 1966-67 season, so that portion of the package was subleased to RKO General, which syndicated eight regular-season games to some cities, including the four U.S. cities that then had NHL clubs and the six U.S. cities that would gain new teams in the 1967 expansion. During the 1967 playoffs,{{cite news|title=NHL playoffs|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|page=10|date=March 24, 1967}} CBS was scheduled to broadcast the April 8 game between the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens. However, an AFTRA strike forced the cancellation of the telecast.{{cite news |date=April 9, 1967|title=GBPG reair of Super Bowl I because of strike of AFTRA CBS. Stanley Cup game rangers vs canadians|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12854591/green_bay_pressgazette/|work=Green Bay Press-Gazette}} The strike itself ultimately ended two days later.

CBS started its weekly 1967–68 coverage{{cite news|title=Grist From The Sports Mill|author=Owen Griffith|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=21|date=April 8, 1968}} with the opening game (the Philadelphia Flyers vs. Los Angeles Kings) at The Forum in Inglewood, California on December 30.{{cite news|title=New Year Party Offers Variety|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=20|date=December 30, 1967}} Then after three more Saturday afternoons, CBS switched to covering Sunday afternoon games beginning on January 28 for the next 10 weeks.{{Cite news |date=1968-03-31 |title=RANGERS TO PLAY CANADIENS TODAY; End Best Regular Season in Battle at Garden |language=en-US |page=S2 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/03/31/archives/rangers-to-play-canadiens-today-end-best-regular-season-in-battle.html |access-date=2022-01-22 |issn=0362-4331}} On March 10, 1968, CBS broadcast a game at Chicago Stadium between Toronto and Chicago.{{YouTube|title=1968 CHICAGO vs TORONTO PART BROADCAST IN COLOR|id=fhY_OaEj7jg}}{{cite web |url=http://betweentheposts.ca/2018/03/25-years-later-it-could-be-special/|title=25 YEARS LATER, IT COULD BE SPECIAL|last=Berger|first=Howard|date=March 12, 2018|website=Between the Post|publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} In a precursor to the "Heidi fiasco" on NBC a few months later, CBS decided that the game was over, the Hawks leading 3–0 with 50 seconds left, and went to a children's movie called The Goalkeeper Also Lives on Our Street.

Due to another strike by AFTRA (which resulted in the cancellation of a New York Rangers-Montreal broadcast last year), CBS started its playoff coverage with a CBC tape of the previous night's Boston-Montreal game. On April 13, CBS started its three-week-long weekend afternoon Stanley Cup coverage, ending with the St. Louis-Montreal game 4 on May 11. For the playoffs, Jim Gordon worked play-by-play, and Stu Nahan worked color commentary. During the regular season, the pair{{cite news|title=Oakland Meets Minnesota on Ice|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=5G|date=February 4, 1968}} alternated roles each week. For instance, Gordon worked play-by-play on December 30 while Nahan worked play-by-play the next week.

In {{NHL Year|1968}},{{cite news|title=Hawks, Canadiens Meet in TV Special|author=Ted Damata|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|publisher=Tribune Publishing|page=D1|date=January 4, 1969}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/CBS-TV-Rare-Original-February-1969-Promo-Poster-Ad-Framed-Peanuts-Apollo-9-/301842637024|title=CBS TV Rare Original February 1969 Promo Poster Ad Framed! Peanuts, Apollo 9|website=eBay}} CBS broadcast 13 regular season Sunday afternoon games and five Stanley Cup playoff games.{{cite news|title=Some Canadians Fret That U.S. Television Is Taking Over Hockey|author=Robert Prinsky|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=April 29, 1969}}{{cite news|title=Grist From The Sports Mill|author=Frank Keyes|newspaper=Hartford Courant|page=45|date=April 30, 1969}} Dan Kelly did play-by-play while Bill Mazer did color commentary and intermission interviews.{{cite magazine|title=Sporting A Whole Lot Of Sport|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1981/04/20/825564/sporting-a-whole-lot-of-sport|author=Mike DelNagro|magazine=Sports Illustrated|publisher=Time Inc.|date=April 20, 1981}}{{cite news|title=Sportslook|author=Don Page|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|page=A2|date=January 25, 1969}}

In 1970, Pat Summerall and then Boston Bruins' television announcer Don Earle did a short post-game segment from inside the team's dressing room at the end of CBS' coverage of the fourth (and what turned out to be the final game) of the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals. WSBK-TV, which was the Bruins' television flagship at the time, simulcast the CBS coverage and did a longer post-game locker-room segment after CBS' coverage ended. After Bobby Orr scored the championship-winning goal after just 40 seconds, so the story went, Summerall turned to Bobby's father, Doug Orr (who was reportedly, too nervous to go back to his seat from the Bruins' dressing room for the start of overtime) and yelled over the crowd in the stands above "Mr. Orr, your son has scored and Boston has won the Stanley Cup!" Doug Orr is said to have told Summerall, "I know Boston scored, but we didn't see it! What makes you think my son scored?" Summerall supposedly replied, "Because they wouldn't be yelling this loudly if Esposito had scored!"

On January 31, 1971, CBS was scheduled to carry a game between the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues, a rematch of the 1970 Finals. The game was to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, but NASA announced that the Apollo 14 lunar-landing mission would be launched that afternoon at 3:23 p.m. Eastern Time. CBS decided to air the first period of the game live, then switch to news coverage once the first period ended (at approximately 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time). At about 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, after the launch coverage was due to end, CBS would show the second and third periods of the game on tape delay. But the launch was delayed for over a half-hour, and after the launch took place, CBS had no time to show the rest of the game on tape. The theme music that CBS employed during this period bore similarities to the song "Sounds"{{YouTube|title=Hot Butter - Sounds|id=D5OOu4ANf_8}} by Hot Butter.

The network showed weekend afternoon playoff games; the same pattern continued through the {{NHL Year|1971}} season. CBS did manage to televise the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals clincher on a Tuesday night and the 1972 Stanley Cup Finals clincher{{YouTube|title=1972 Stanley Cup Final Bruins @ Rangers Game 6 Highlights 5 11 72|id=fO-Q5S8t6zA}} on a Thursday night. In 1971, CBS was not scheduled to broadcast Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals but showed the prime time contest (the first ever occurrence of an NHL game being nationally televised in prime time in the United States) between the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks{{cite book |last= |first= |author-link= |title=Federal Sports Act of 1972: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ...|year= 1973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQsQAAAAIAAJ&q=1972+CBS+Stanley+Cup+Finals&pg=PA230|location= |publisher= |page=230|isbn=}} after fans reportedly swamped switchboards at network headquarters in New York City asking that the seventh game be televised. Ironically, the game was not telecast by CBS' Chicago owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV, nor on CBS affiliates in most of Illinois, and parts of Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa, due to Blackhawks' owner Arthur M. Wirtz policy of not telecasting home games. While Dan Kelly once again handled all play-by-play work, Jim Gordon replaced Bill Mazer{{cite news|title=Sport of 'Kowtowing to Television'|author=Gary Deeb|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|publisher=Tribune Publishing|page=B1|date=March 28, 1976}} on the role Mazer previously did in {{NHL Year|1970}}. For the CBS' Stanley Cup Finals coverage during this period, a third voice was added to the booth (Phil Esposito in 1971 and Harry Howell in 1972).

One trivial note however, on January 23, 1972, Jim Gordon was not in Boston for the Buffalo-Boston game. Therefore, Dick Stockton filled in and did the game with Dan Kelly. Stockton, who did some work for The NFL on CBS, was also at the time a sports anchor for WBZ-TV in Boston, which ironically was at the time an NBC affiliate (WBZ-TV switched from NBC to CBS on January 2, 1995, after its parent company Westinghouse invested in and later purchased CBS, making WBZ an owned-and-operated station of the network in September 1995 which it has remained as since).

During the 1972 Stanley Cup Finals between the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers, CBS took a rather calculated risk in not televising the Game 5 match on May 9 (CBS aired regular programming, including the original Hawaii Five-O in that period on that Tuesday night). This was even though Game 5 was a potential clincher with the Bruins up 3–1 on the Rangers. CBS ultimately lucked out (since the Rangers won Game 5 3–2), and televised the clincher (Game 6) on Thursday night, May 11.

After CBS lost the American television rights to NBC following the 1971-72 season (CBS was paying less than $2 million a year and NBC jumped to $5.3 million{{cite news |last=Craig|first=Jack|title=NHL finds NBC coverage more to its liking |url=http://i.imgur.com/e1O9Sj9.png}}), the network covered the inaugural season of the World Hockey Association.{{cite book|title=First, Fourth and Last|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3y7_6s4CnQYC&q=NHL+on+CBS&pg=PA60 |author=Jonathan Lucas|page=60|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn= 9781425111311|year=2007}} The WHA's TV deal{{cite news |last=Eskenazi|first=Gerald|date=October 27, 1972|title=Raiders Win, 7-6|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/27/archives/raiders-win-76-wha-gets-tv-pact.html|work=The New York Times}} permitted it to sell week‐night games to other networks (CBS meanwhile, would show games on Sunday afternoons in addition the all-star game and playoffs{{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/looking-back-at-the-wha/c-472963|title=Looking Back At The WHA|date=November 21, 2005|website=NHL.com}}). In addition, the WHA also sold a $3‐million package to Canada. On January 7, 1973, CBS aired its first WHA game between the Minnesota Fighting Saints and Winnipeg Jets live from the new St. Paul Civic Center with Ron Oakes, Gerry Cheevers, and Dick Stockton announcing.

=== About the 1967 NHL expansion===

CBS' second go-around with the NHL came at just about the time when the NHL's Original Six franchises were to be joined by the league's first expansion class of {{NHL Year|1967}}.{{cite news|title=NHL Owner Says Expansion Coming|author=Braven Dyer|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|page=B3|date=November 14, 1963}} Although the San Francisco Bay Area was not considered a particularly good hockey market, the terms of a new television agreement with a U.S. network (ultimately CBS) called for two of the expansion teams to be located in California. Hence, the California Seals and Los Angeles Kings joined the National Hockey League in an attempt to get a better TV deal, given that two large West Coast television markets would have NHL clubs (the Seals were renamed the Oakland Seals during their first season and then were rechristened the California Golden Seals when purchased by Charlie O. Finley in {{NHL Year|1970}}).{{cite magazine|title=Freddie's In, Gloom's Out|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1969/03/10/559667/freddies-in-glooms-out|author=Gary Ronberg|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=March 10, 1969}} CBS was hoping that they would grow with the NHL by persuading them to go coast-to-coast (Montreal to Los Angeles) in a similar fashion for which they had grown with the National Football League (beginning in 1956). In 1967, Bill Schonely did West Coast National Hockey League coverage for CBS.

==Memorable moments==

Perhaps, the most memorable moment came on Mother's Day of {{NHL Year|1969}} (May 10), when Bobby Orr's{{cite magazine|title=It's Gotta Be Orr—or Else|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1970/10/19/611504/its-gotta-be-orror-else|author=Mark Mulvoy|author-link=Mark Mulvoy|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=October 19, 1970}} winning goal in overtime of Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals gave his Boston Bruins their first Stanley Cup Championship since {{scfy|1941}}, as they swept the St. Louis Blues at the old Boston Garden. Immediately upon scoring, Orr was sent flying by St. Louis defenceman Noel Picard. The "flight" was captured by a news photographer and is one of the iconic images in the history of sports. In 1999, that goal was voted the greatest moment in NHL history by a panel of sportswriters who cover the league's clubs regularly.

The most commonly seen video clip of Bobby Orr's "flight" is the American version of the broadcast on CBS as called by Dan Kelly. This archival clip can be considered a rarity, since about 98% of the time, any surviving kinescopes or videotapes of the actual telecasts of hockey games from this era usually emanate from CBC's coverage. According to Dick Irvin Jr.'s book My 26 Stanley Cups (Irvin was in the CBC booth with Danny Gallivan during the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals), he was always curious why even the CBC typically uses the CBS replay of the Bobby Orr goal (with Dan Kelly's commentary) instead of Gallivan's call. The explanation that Irvin received was that the CBC's master tape of the game (along with others) was thrown away to clear shelf space at the network.

The clip exists because WSBK-TV in Boston, then an independent station, was the television flagship of the Boston Bruins. WSBK had a weekly program during the season showing highlights of the previous week's games. WSBK got permission from CBS to simulcast the game to tape the network's telecast and use highlights from that for next week's show. WSBK decided to show the entire (however brief) overtime session in the final 1969-70 edition (aired on May 17, 1970) of Bruins Highlights, as well as in Boston Bruins: World Champions, an hour-long documentary featuring highlights of the team's 1969-70 season and Stanley Cup win. Coincidentally, WSBK is now owned by CBS, run as a sister station to WBZ-TV (formerly owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting as an NBC affiliate).

On May 24, 1980, in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers, Bobby Nystrom scored the game-winner at 7:11 of overtime on national television throughout the United States to secure the first Stanley Cup in Islanders' history. Nystrom was part of the first NHL team (1979-80 New York Islanders) to win a Stanley Cup with Europeans on its roster.{{cite book|title=IIHF Top 100 Hockey Stories of All Time|author=Andrew Podnieks|author-link=Andrew Podnieks|author2=Szymon Szemberg|page=74|publisher=Fenn Publishing|location=Bolton, Ontario, Canada|year=2008|isbn=978-1-55168-358-4}}

==Ratings==

The highest-rated Stanley Cup Finals games in NHL on CBS history are the following:{{cite web|title=Stanley Cup Final Game 7 Becomes The Most Watched NHL Game In 38 Years|url=http://fangsbites.com/2011/06/stanley-cup-final-game-7-becomes-the-most-watched-nhl-game-in-38-years/|author=Ken Fang|work=Fangsbites.com|publisher=WordPress|date=June 16, 2011|access-date=June 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620191818/http://fangsbites.com/2011/06/stanley-cup-final-game-7-becomes-the-most-watched-nhl-game-in-38-years/|archive-date=June 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}

class="wikitable"

!Rank

!Date

!Teams

!Game

!Viewership

|May 18, 1971 (prime time)

|Chicago-Montreal

|Game 7

|12.41 million

|May 11, 1972 (prime time)

|Game 6

|10.93 million

|April 30, 1972 (Sunday afternoon)

|Game 1

|8.51 million

|May 7, 1972 (Sunday afternoon)

|Game 4

|8.26 million

==Schedules==

===1967–68===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

December 30, 1967

|Philadelphia at Los Angeles

January 6, 1968

|New York at Montreal

January 13, 1968

|Pittsburgh at Toronto

January 20, 1968

|Philadelphia at Boston

January 28, 1968

|Detroit at Minnesota

February 4, 1968

|Oakland at Minnesota

February 11, 1968

|Montreal at Chicago

February 18, 1968

February 25, 1968

|Toronto at New York

March 3, 1968

|Seals at Flyers (match played at Madison Square Garden)

March 10, 1968

|Toronto at Chicago

March 17, 1968

|Detroit at Minnesota

March 24, 1968

|Minnesota at Pittsburgh

March 31, 1968

|Montreal at New York

===1968–69===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

January 4, 1969

|Chicago at Montreal

January 12, 1969

|St. Louis at Minnesota

January 19, 1969

|Toronto at Boston

January 26, 1969

|Montreal at New York

February 2, 1969

|Montreal at Chicago

February 9, 1969

|Los Angeles at Detroit

February 16, 1969

|Boston at Chicago

February 23, 1969

|Toronto at Minnesota

March 2, 1969

|Chicago at Toronto

March 9, 1969

|Montreal at New York

March 16, 1969

|Minnesota at St. Louis

March 23, 1969

|Boston at New York

==== Note ====

The Canadiens-Bruins March 30 game was canceled due to coverage of the death of former President Dwight Eisenhower.{{Cite news |last=Jr |first=Felix Belair |date=1969-03-29 |title=EISENHOWER DEAD AT 78 AS AILING HEART FAILS; END IS PEACEFUL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/29/archives/eisenhower-dead-at-78-as-ailing-heart-fails-end-is-peaceful.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |work=The New York Times |page=1 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Belair Jr. |first=Felix |date=1969-04-01 |title=WORLD'S LEADERS JOIN IN SERVICES FOR EISENHOWER; Simple Rites in Washington Cathedral Hail the General for 'Invincible Faith' 78 LANDS REPRESENTED Funeral Train Leaves for Trip to Abilene, Boyhood Home of 34th President Leaders of World Join in Simple Service for Eisenhower in Washington Cathedral 34th President Hailed For 'Invincible Faith' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/04/01/archives/worlds-leaders-join-in-services-for-eisenhower-simple-rites-in.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |work=The New York Times |page=1 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

===1969–70===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

January 11, 1970

|New York at Montreal

January 18, 1970

|Los Angeles at Detroit

January 25, 1970

|St. Louis at Philadelphia

February 1, 1970

|Toronto at Boston

February 8, 1970

|Philadelphia at Detroit

February 15, 1970

|Montreal at New York

February 22, 1970

|Boston at Chicago

March 1, 1970

|Chicago at New York

March 8, 1970

March 15, 1970

|Montreal at Toronto

March 22, 1970

|Toronto at New York

March 29, 1970

|Boston at Detroit

April 5, 1970

|Detroit at New York

===1970–71===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

January 10, 1971

|Philadelphia at Montreal

January 17, 1971

|New York at Chicago

January 24, 1971

|Minnesota at New York

January 31, 1971

|St. Louis at Boston

February 7, 1971

|St. Louis at Philadelphia

February 14, 1971

|Boston at Toronto

February 21, 1971

|Detroit at New York

February 28, 1971

|Toronto at Boston

March 7, 1971

|Montreal at Detroit

March 14, 1971

|St. Louis at Chicago

March 21, 1971

March 28, 1971

|Toronto at Detroit

April 4, 1971

===1971–72===

class="wikitable"

! Date

! Teams

January 9, 1972

|Montreal at Chicago

January 23, 1972

|Buffalo at Boston

January 30, 1972

|Minnesota at New York

February 6, 1972

|Toronto at New York

February 13, 1972

February 20, 1972

|Boston at Chicago

February 27, 1972

|Philadelphia at Detroit

March 5, 1972

|Chicago at Minnesota

March 12, 1972

March 19, 1972

|Minnesota at Boston

March 26, 1972

April 2, 1972

|Montreal at New York

==Stanley Cup playoffs commentating crews==

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Round

!Teams

!Games

!Play-by-play

!Color commentator(s)

!Studio host

1967

|Semifinals

|Chicago-Toronto

|Game 5

|colspan="2"|Stu Nahan

rowspan="4"|1968

|rowspan="2"|Quarterfinals

|Montreal-Boston

|Game 2 (taped from 4/6, joined-in-progress; CBC tape)

|Danny Gallivan

|Dick Irvin Jr.

|Ward Cornell and Dan Kelly

New York Rangers-Chicago

|Game 4

|colspan="2"|Stu Nahan

rowspan="2"|Semifinals

|St. Louis-Minnesota

|Game 1

|colspan="2"|Stu Nahan

Montreal-Chicago

|Game 5

|colspan="2"|Stu Nahan

rowspan="2"|1969

|Quarterfinals

|St. Louis-Philadelphia

|Game 4

|colspan="2"|Bill Mazer

Semifinals

|Montreal-Boston

|Games 2, 4

|colspan="2"|Bill Mazer

rowspan="2"|1970

|Quarterfinals

|St. Louis-Minnesota

|Game 4

|colspan="2"|Bill Mazer

Semifinals

|Chicago-Boston

|Games 1, 4{{YouTube|title=Bruins@Black Hawks Series the CUP 1970|id=kX7xLCuhEl8}}{{YouTube|title=1970 April 26 game 4 Boston vs Chicago Original Boston Broadcasts|id=2yP7Z8N3Bio}}

|colspan="2"|Bill Mazer

rowspan="3"|1971

|rowspan="2"|Quarterfinals

|Chicago-Philadelphia

|Game 4

|colspan="2"|Jim Gordon

Boston-Montreal

|Game 7{{YouTube|title=Canadiens vs Bruins - Game 7 1971|id=xPE29L7ZM64}}

|colspan="2"|Jim Gordon

Semifinals

|Chicago-New York Rangers

|Games 4, 7

|colspan="2"|Jim Gordon

rowspan="2"|1972

|Quarterfinals

|Minnesota-St. Louis

|Games 4, 7

|colspan="2"|Jim Gordon

Semifinals

|Boston-St. Louis

|Game 3

|colspan="2"|Jim Gordon

== [[Stanley Cup Finals]] commentating crews ==

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!Year

!Teams

!Games

!Play-by-play

!Color commentator(s)

!Studio host(s)

1967

|Montreal-Toronto

|Games 2, 5

|colspan="2"|Stu Nahan

1968

|St. Louis-Montreal

|Games 1, 4

|colspan="2"|Stu Nahan

1969

|Montreal-St. Louis

|Games 1, 4

|colspan="2"|Bill Mazer

1970

|St. Louis-Boston{{cite magazine|author=Mark Mulvoy|author-link=Mark Mulvoy|date=October 19, 1970|title=It's Gotta Be Orr—or Else|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1970/10/19/611504/its-gotta-be-orror-else|magazine=Sports Illustrated}}

|Games 1,{{YouTube|title=Bruins@Blues 5/3/1970|id=pCFBwRqD114}} 4{{YouTube|id=u3rZ5jKTQP0|title=BEST QUALITY Bobby Orr Stanley Cup winning goal 1970 Boston Big Bad Bruins}}

|colspan="2"|Bill Mazer

1971

|Chicago-Montreal{{cite book |last=Feldmann|first=Doug|author-link= |date= October 2013|title=Keith Magnuson: The Inspiring Life and Times of a Beloved Blackhawk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbGwAAAAQBAJ&dq=Keith+Magnuson+Dan+Kelly&pg=PA76|location= |publisher= |page=76|isbn=9781623683139}}

|Games 3, 6–7{{YouTube|title=5/18/1971 Canadiens at Blackhawks (NHL Finals Game #7)|id=SZAjnzbnimg}}

|Jim Gordon and Phil Esposito

1972

|Games 1, 4,{{YouTube|title=5/7/1972 Bruins at Rangers (NHL Finals Game #4)|id=_hEskwa-IP0}} 6{{YouTube|id=Kr2-QDHCq6s|title=5/11/1972 Bruins at Rangers (NHL Finals Game #6)}}{{YouTube|id=fO-Q5S8t6zA|title=1972 Stanley Cup Final Bruins @ Rangers Game 6 Highlights 5 11 72}}

|Jim Gordon and Harry Howell