The next day, Turner Sports announced that they have agreed to a seven-year deal with the NHL to broadcast at least 72 games nationally on TNT and TBS (while also giving HBO Max the live streaming and simulcast rights to these games) beginning with the 2021–22 NHL season, which will include three Stanley Cup Finals, the other half of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Winter Classic.
On April 26, 2021, Sports Business Journal reported that NBC had officially pulled out of bidding for future NHL rights, meaning that NBC will not televise NHL games for the first time since the 2004–05 NHL lockout. 
ABC will also broadcast four Stanley Cup Finals over the life of the contract.
On March 10, 2021, the National Hockey League and ESPN confirmed a 7-year television deal that will include games not only on ESPN, but also ABC, ESPN+, and Hulu beginning in the 2021–22 season. These were the final games that Emrick called he announced his retirement on October 19, 2020. As he had been doing throughout the playoffs, 74-year-old NBC lead play-by-play commentator Mike "Doc" Emrick called the Cup Finals off of monitors from his home studio in Metro Detroit, citing his advanced age as a potential risk for severe illness from COVID-19. The league then allowed both Sportsnet and NBC commentators into the hubs. 2020 - The NHL initially had plans to produce broadcasts for each game using a skeleton crew on-site, such as cameramen and producers, and then each media partners' commentators on both TV and radio were to call the games remotely. Keith Jones, Anson Carter, and Patrick Sharp Mark Messier, Chris Chelios, and Brian Boucher Further information: List of American Stanley Cup Finals television announcers, NHL on NBC commentators, List of NHL on ESPN personalities, and Stanley Cup Finals television ratings National television 2020s YearĪnson Carter, Paul Bissonnette, Wayne Gretzky, and Henrik Lundqvist
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