Sunday Night Hockey


Sunday Night Hockey is a weekly presentation of National Hockey League games that air on NBCSN on Sundays during the regular season. Sunday Night Hockey usually debuts during the second Sunday of January.
The package made its debut on January 10, 2016, featuring a game between the New Jersey Devils and the Minnesota Wild. Following the game, NBCSN premiered a weekly recap show, NHL Sunday Shootout, which is a summary of the previous week's NHL action.
During the 2016–17 NHL season, NBC Sports began to promote both the Game of the Week and Sunday Night Hockey broadcasts under the Star Sunday brand, focusing primarily on the NHL's star players. Star Sunday features extensive pre-game, in-game, and post-game coverage of each featured player. The first game under the new package featured the Wild visiting the Anaheim Ducks on January 5, 2017. The game's featured players were Minnesota's Ryan Suter and Anaheim's Ryan Kesler.

Results

2015–16 season

DateTimeAway TeamScoreHome TeamScore
January 10, 20168 P.M.New Jersey2Minnesota1
January 17, 20167:30 P.M.Philadelphia2 Detroit1
February 14, 20167:30 P.M.Philadelphia1NY Rangers3
February 21, 20167 P.M.Detroit0NY Rangers1
February 28, 20166:30 P.M.Tampa Bay4Boston1
February 28, 20169 P.M.Los Angeles2Anaheim4
March 6, 20168 P.M.St. Louis4Minnesota2
March 13, 20167:30 P.M.Toronto1Detroit0
March 20, 20166 P.M.Washington2Pittsburgh6
March 20, 20168:30 P.M.Minnesota3 Chicago2
March 27, 20167:30 P.M.Pittsburgh3 NY Rangers2
April 3, 20168 P.M.St. Louis5Colorado1
April 10, 20167 P.M.Philadelphia5NY Islanders2

2016–17 season

During the season, the Star Sunday brand made its debut.
DateTimeAway TeamScoreHome TeamScore
January 8, 2017*8 P.M.Minnesota2Anaheim1
January 15, 2017*7 P.M.Minnesota3Chicago2
February 12, 2017*7:30 P.M.Montreal0Boston4
February 19, 20176 P.M.Chicago5Buffalo1
February 19, 20178:30 P.M.Boston2San Jose1
February 26, 2017*7:30 P.M.St. Louis2Chicago4
March 5, 2017*8 P.M.St. Louis3Colorado0
March 12, 2017*7 P.M.NY Rangers4Detroit1
March 26, 2017*7 P.M.Philadelphia6Pittsburgh2
April 2, 2017*7:30 P.M.Philadelphia3NY Rangers4

Designated as a Star Sunday game.

2017–18 season

NBC resumed its special Star Sunday presentations on March 11, 2018, both as part of the Game of the Week and Sunday Night Hockey package.
DateTimeAway TeamScoreHome TeamScore
January 7, 20187:30 P.M.Boston4Pittsburgh5
January 14, 20187:30 P.M.NY Rangers2Pittsburgh5
March 4, 20187 P.M.Detroit1Minnesota4
March 11, 2018*7:30 P.M.Dallas1Pittsburgh3
March 18, 2018*7:30 P.M.St. Louis5Chicago4
March 25, 2018*7:30 P.M.Boston2 Minnesota1
April 1, 2018*7:30 P.M.Washington3Pittsburgh1

Designated as a Star Sunday game.

2018–19 season

Star Sunday returned on February 3, 2019, both as part of the Game of the Week and Sunday Night Hockey package. This will mark the first season of Star Sunday to have its presenting sponsor; AT&T was the first presenting sponsor and they branded themselves as Star Sunday presented by AT&T.
DateTimeAway TeamScoreHome TeamScore
January 6, 20198 P.M.Chicago5Pittsburgh3
February 10, 2019*7 P.M.Toronto1NY Rangers4
February 17, 20196 P.M.Philadelphia3Detroit1
February 24, 2019*7 P.M.St. Louis1Minnesota2
March 3, 2019*7:30 P.M.Nashville3Minnesota2
March 10, 2019*7:30 P.M.Boston2Pittsburgh4
March 10, 2019*10 P.M.Los Angeles3Anaheim2
March 17, 2019*7:30 P.M.Philadelphia2Pittsburgh1
March 17, 2019*10 P.M.Edmonton3Vegas6
March 24, 2019*8 P.M.Colorado1Chicago2
March 31, 2019*7:30 P.M.Boston3Detroit6

Designated as a Star Sunday game.

2019–20 season

Beginning with this season, Brian Boucher replaced Pierre McGuire on the lead broadcast team with Mike Emrick and Eddie Olczyk. McGuire will be reassigned to work with NBC's other broadcast teams.
DateTimeAway TeamScoreHome TeamScore
January 5, 20207:30 P.M.Detroit2Chicago4
January 5, 202010 P.M.Nashville4Anaheim5
February 9, 20207:30 P.M.Colorado3Minnesota2
February 16, 20206 P.M.St. Louis1Nashville2
February 23, 20207:30 P.M.St. Louis4Minnesota1
February 23, 202010 P.M.Vegas6Anaheim5
March 1, 20208 P.M.Washington4Minnesota3
March 1, 202010:30 P.M.Los Angeles4Vegas1
March 8, 20207:30 P.M.St. Louis2Chicago0
March 8, 202010 P.M.Colorado4San Jose3

Ratings

During its inaugural season, Sunday Night Hockey averaged 491,000 viewers over 13 games, up 28% from Sunday Night games during the 2014–15 NHL season over the same number of games. NBCSN's ten-most watched games of the 2015–16 season were either Wednesday Night Rivalry or Sunday Night Hockey games.