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The NFL has inked one more TV deal. Following its blockbuster 10-year, $100 billion rights deal with Disney, Fox, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS and Amazon, the league has signed a less valuable but still strategically significant agreement with Hulu.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNENT Group, the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, has ordered an English-language original biopic series about Börje Salming, one of Sweden’s biggest ice hockey stars. The series is created and directed by Amir Chamdin, whose latest show, “Partisan,” won the top prize at Canneseries in 2020.

Fifteen young wizards on the ice are official all-stars.

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead star Katelyn Nacon has joined John D’Aquino (Cory In The House), Augie Duke (Bad Kids Go To Hell), June Carryl (Shameless), and NHL Hall of Famer Phil Esposito in feature drama Breathing Happy, which is filming in Tampa, Florida and Los Angeles, California.

Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins have postponed today’s home game against the Boston Red Sox. The tilt had been set to start at 2:10 p.m. local time at Target Field.

A Russian reporter had an un-fur-gettable moment after a dog unexpectedly interrupted her in the middle of a live broadcast.

Hockey great Mark Messier wants fans to know he had a lot of help on his path to the NHL Hall of Fame.

NEW YORK -- Hockey great Mark Messier wants fans to know he had a lot of help on his path to the NHL Hall of Fame.Messier's memoir “No One Wins Alone” will be published in October by Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.

Sportscaster Dick Stockton, who called more than 1,500 games cross the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL, as well as collegiate sports and 2 Olympic games, is retiring after more than 55 years behind the microphone. Fox Sports, which has employed Stockton since the division launched in 1994, announced his retirement Thursday.

The National Hockey League on Wednesday announced it would no longer use referee Tim Peel due to a televised comment he is accused of making, caught on a hot mic, during the Tuesday night game between the Nashville Predators and the Detriot Red Wings.

Electronic Arts (EA) has vowed to take more action against racism within the FIFA 21 community.A recent Eurogamer article brought to light that despite EA’s ongoing efforts to curb racism and any other form of toxicity within its games through the Positive Play Charter, the issues are still as prevalent as ever.The most recent high-profile instance happened earlier this month, when a Pro Team player racially abused Arsenal legend Ian Wright.

National Hockey League and ESPN are together again: The two sides announced a seven-year agreement Wednesday beginning next season that includes four Stanley Cup Finals, the NHL All-Star game and comprehensive streaming rights.ESPN has a long history with the league, stretching back to the network's launch, but hasn't aired games since 2004.“This partnership of the world’s top hockey league and the platforms of The Walt Disney Company is a big win for our fans and our game,” NHL Commissioner

Reunited, and it feels so good. The National Hockey League will be back on ESPN in the fall after 16 years as the league and cable net have agreed to a new seven-year TV deal. It’s the latest stint for the NHL on the Disney-owned Worldwide Leader, which aired games at various times during the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s, but not since 2004.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorHockey will return in a big way to Walt Disney’s ESPN in a new seven-year deal that breaks NBCUniversal’s dominance of the sport’s TV rights and makes some National Hockey League games available for streaming in broader fashion,ESPN’s new deal with the NHL will last from the 2021-2022 season through the 2027-2028 season, the network announced Wednesday.

Some bad blood with a neighbour apparently led to an altercation for former NHL star Sean Avery.

Walter Gretzky, the father of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has died. He was 82.

Wuxly Movement, a Canadian outerwear company that makes sustainable and animal-free products, is shining a light on an important moment.

Also Read: 'Mighty Ducks: Game Changers' Trailer: Lauren Graham Starts a Hockey Team (Video)Brill also really wanted to reiterate how much the outsiders helped the squad win its international competition. Of course, most of those kids were pretty limited to one skill themselves — and those skills didn’t all translate to the ice.

Green Day has just dropped a new single, along with some Punk Rock Aerobics to get fans’ blood pumping.

Mike Emrick spent decades narrating hockey's biggest moments happening live in front of him.That's also how “Doc" wants to experience a documentary about his life and career.NBC will air “Doc Emrick — The Voice of Hockey” Sunday afternoon after a second NHL outdoor game at Lake Tahoe. The program will feature more than a dozen current and former broadcasters sharing their thoughts on the now-retired play-by-play broadcaster.

An icon of the ice is getting some well-deserved fanfare in celebration of Black History Month.

Everyone loves an underduck, and now that ragtag franchise from the 1990s is back for a new generation. Disney+ said today that its hockey-themed follow-up series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers will premiere March 26 on the streamer. Check out a teaser trailer above.

The Tokyo Olympics, set to begin July 23, are six months away. But with COVID-19 cases surging in Japan and around the world and vaccine supplies falling short, the Olympic torch is in danger of going unlit.

NBCUniversal is pulling the plug on NBCSN, its cable sports network. The channel will shut down by the end of 2021, with its signature live sporting events airing instead on USA Network and Peacock.

NBC Universal will shut down sports channel NBCSN by the end of the year, with several prominent events – most notably, the National Hockey League to USA Network – sent to other properties.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFans of big NBC sports franchises like the NHL and Premier League will have to follow them to a new home.NBCUniversal will shutter its NBCSN sports network, and move some of its top sports properties to the USA network in a maneuver executives believe will boost the economics of the general-entertainment cable outlet at a time when new streaming-video hubs are luring bigger audiences.

In the latest sign of retreat for the traditional pay-TV bundle, NBCUniversal will wind down the operations of its sports cable outlet NBCSN by the end of the year.

Amazon is moving into hockey with the latest iteration of its All or Nothing sports docuseries strand.

Mike Milbury is no longer with NBC Sports after more than a decade as a hockey analyst. Milbury was absent Monday when the network unveiled the game and studio commentary lineup for the 2021 NHL season.

UPDATED, 5:48 PM: Two days before the start of the 2021 NHL season, NBC Sports and its longtime hockey analyst Mike Milbury have parted ways. The news comes more than four months since he was suspended for “insensitive and insulting” remarks about women.

Wayne Gretzky was known as “the Great One” for his skills with a puck, but it seems that the NHL great may be able to use that nickname for an entirely different sport.

David Pastrnak is paying it forward.

Hockey is set to return Jan. 13 after the NHL and players completed a deal Sunday to hold a 56-game season that would include playoffs lasting into July to award the Stanley Cup.

Scott Soshnick The Premier Lacrosse League’s launch in 2019 prompted many associated with the sport to ask whether there was enough support from financial linchpins like sponsors and ticket-buying fans to sustain two outdoor leagues.The answer, it seems, is no.To that end, the PLL and Major League Lacrosse, founded about two decades ago, are merging.

Wayne Gretzky’s name appears at No. 1 an astounding 60 times in the NHL’s record book.

Former NHL great Jerome Iginla made an appearance on the local news in Boston, but the reporter who interviewed him is clearly not a hockey fan.