Playoff Coverage up 23 per cent on TSN

TSN’s ongoing coverage of the
2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs
continues with the Conference Semifinals and complete coverage of the
Buffalo vs. NY Rangers and
Detroit
vs.

San Jose
series. All games will be available in High Definition on TSN HD.

Coverage
gets underway on Wednesday, April 25, opening night of the Conference
Semifinals, with Game 1: NY Rangers @ Buffalo at 7 p.m. ET (see complete
broadcast schedule below).

TSN is
coming off a successful First Round of the NHL Playoffs, attracting a per game
average audience of 401,000 viewers. This marks a 23 per cent increase
over the First Round of last year’s NHL Playoffs.

Molson That’s
Hockey will air a one-hour Second
Round Preview Special on Tuesday, April 24, beginning at 7 p.m.
ET. Host Gino Reda will be joined by Hockey Insiders Bob McKenzie and
Darren Dreger as they preview all 4 Second Round playoff series and make
predictions for the Conference Semifinals. In addition, Pierre McGuire
will conduct ‘McGuire to the Max’, analyst Darren Pang will analyze the goalie
match-ups, and Maggie The Monkey, who went 4 for 8 in the First Round, will
make her picks for the Second Round.

TSN
Broadband will continue to provide expanded pre- and post-game coverage of the
NHL Playoffs with one-on-one interviews with coaches and players, available
exclusively on TSN Broadband at
www.TSN.ca
.

TSN will
once again use two broadcast teams for its NHL Playoff coverage: Gord Miller
and Pierre McGuire will call the Buffalo/NY Rangers series, using the popular
‘one-up, one-down’ method with Miller in the broadcast booth and McGuire at ice
level; Chris Cuthbert and Glenn Healy will call the Detroit/San Jose series,
using ‘one-up, one-down’ in Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena and the traditional
method with both announcers in the broadcast booth in San Jose.

Colourful
NHLer Jeremy Roenick will be back as a studio analyst for TSN’s coverage of the
Conference Semifinals, joining host James Duthie, Hockey Insiders McKenzie and
Dreger, hockey expert Dave Hodge, analyst Darren Pang, and Tie Domi.

TSN has coverage
of the first three rounds of the
Stanley
Cup Playoffs.

TSN’s
broadcast schedule for the
Stanley Cup
Conference Semifinals is as follows (note: all games available in High
Definition on TSN HD):

Wednesday,
April 25

7 p.m.
ET Game 1: NY Rangers @

Buffalo

Thursday,
April 26

7:30
p.m. ET Game 1:
San Jose @

Detroit

Friday,
April 27

7 p.m.
ET
Game 2: NY Rangers @

Buffalo

Saturday,
April 28

3 p.m.
ET
Game 2:
San Jose
@

Detroit

Sunday,
April 29

2 p.m.
ET
Game 3:

Buffalo @ NY Rangers (pre-game at 1:30 p.m.
ET)

Monday,
April 30

10 p.m.
ET Game 3: Detroit @ San Jose (pre-game at 9:30
p.m. ET)

Tuesday,
May 1

7 p.m.
ET Game 4:

Buffalo @ NY Rangers

Wednesday,
May 2

10 p.m.
ET Game 4: Detroit @ San Jose (pre-game at 9:30
p.m. ET)

Friday,
May 4

7 p.m.
ET Game 5 (if necessary): NY Rangers @

Buffalo

Saturday,
May 5

2 p.m. ET Game 5 (if necessary):
San Jose @

Detroit
(pre-game at 1:30 p.m. ET)

Sunday,
May 6

2 p.m.
ET Game 6 (if necessary):

Buffalo @ NY Rangers

Monday,
May 7

TBD
Game 6 (if necessary): Detroit @ San
Jose

Tuesday,
May 8

7 p.m.
ET Game 7 (if necessary): NY Rangers @

Buffalo

Wednesday,
May 9

TBD
Game 7 (if necessary):
San Jose @

Detroit

All
audience figures are 2+ and exclude pre- and post-game; source: BBM Nielsen
Media Research