NHL, HBO Team Up for Reality Series

Entering the final season of its television rights deals with NBC and Versus, the National Hockey League made an aggressive move today by announcing a deal with HBO. The pact includes an in-season, all-access, behind-the-scenes series that will follow the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals for four weeks, leading up to the NHL Winter Classic game on New Year’s Day between the two teams.

The series will be part of HBO’s 24/7 reality franchise, which had previously ventured into  sports such as boxing and auto racing, and will take on the tone of HBO’s much-talked-about NFL series Hard Knocks.

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