{"id":20745,"date":"2021-05-11T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=20745"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:55:30","slug":"2021-stanley-cup-playoffs-begin-on-nbc-in-primetime-this-saturday-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/11\/2021-stanley-cup-playoffs-begin-on-nbc-in-primetime-this-saturday-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs Begin on NBC in Primetime This Saturday, May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20746\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NHLonNBC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NHLonNBC.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NHLonNBC-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NHL announced last night that the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs will begin in primetime on NBC this Saturday, May 15 &#8211; immediately following live coverage of <em>The 146th Preakness Stakes<\/em> &#8211; when Alex Ovechkin and the No. 2 seed Washington Capitals host Brad Marchand and the No. 3 seed Boston Bruins in Game 1 of their First Round series.<\/p>\n<p>The complete 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round schedule, as well as NBC Sports&#8217; comprehensive coverage schedule across the networks of NBCUniversal, will be announced in the coming days.<\/p><div id=\"morty-22143453\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL announced last night that the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs will begin in primetime on NBC this Saturday, May 15 &#8211; immediately following live coverage of The 146th Preakness Stakes &#8211; when Alex Ovechkin and the No. 2 seed Washington Capitals host Brad Marchand and the No. 3 seed Boston Bruins in Game 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv_news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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