ESPN today officially announced that it will deliver a minimum of seven games from 2012-13 season of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) exclusively on ESPN3 in the US and on ESPN UK. Coverage begins Tuesday, October 9 at 1 p.m. ET with ESPN SportsCenter anchor Steve Levy and NHL studio analyst Barry Melrose calling the Lev vs. Dynamo Moscow game live on ESPN2 and ESPN3. The game will re-air in primetime on ESPN2 at 8 p.m. ET and will air on delay on ESPN in the UK (Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. BST).
Confirmed games through the end of the month feature an all-star lineup of hockey players, including Alex Ovechkin (Dynamo Moscow), Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA), Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar (Metallurg Mg).
Alex Ovechkin will play KHL hockey on ESPN2, with Barry Melrose on the mic | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports
Flipping through the channels and found a KHL game, then surfed to find the announcement from the 5th ... Ovechkin (Dynamo) and Chara (Lev) are out there tonight. Disappointed to Gonchar playing for Metallurg, prior to playing in the NHL he played for Traktor and was the reason I chose Traktor as my favorite KHL team.
The announcing is a bit sketchy because Levy & Melrose are having a problem pronouncing the European names,
, but Melrose did comment he thinks the NHL will be back in December ... I'm Ok with watching the KHL,
.
