The Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Columbus Blue Jackets in a critical regular-season game tonight. Both teams are tied for second place in the Metropolitan Division with two games remaining. Face-off is 7pm. Pre-game on WISR 680am will be 6:30pm. The Pens have won the first three games of the four-game season series. They finish the regular season at home against Ottawa tomorrow night.
NBC Sports will once again feature every NHL Stanley Cup Playoff game presented nationally in the coming weeks, running as many as 105 playoff games, and possibly more than 260 hours of programming starting April 11. NBC alone is scheduled to present up to 19 exclusive Stanley Cup Playoff games, with coverage presented on NBC, NBCSN and NHL Network, as well as USA Network and CNBC, during first- and second-round coverage. NBCSN serves as the primary home of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, offering coverage of one or two games virtually every night of the first round.