Winter Classic on New Year's Day will air live on NBC, 11 other contests will be on NBC Sports Network

From the beginning almost to the end of the 2019-20 season, NBC Sports plans to showcase the Nashville Predators.

The NHL’s primary television partner will show 12 Predators games on its family of networks during the coming campaign, most notably the Bridgestone Winter Classic on New Year’s Day in Dallas. Nashville’s first appearance will be the regular-season opener Oct. 3 against Minnesota. Its last will be March 29 at Colorado, the 79th game on the schedule.

The 12 contests account for 14.6 percent of the regular season. Eight of them will be in road games, including a back-to-back Jan. 29 at Washington and Jan. 30 at New Jersey.

The rest of the country will get to see the Predators take on all but one of their Central Division opponents at least once. The exception is Winnipeg.

Nashville will appear on Sunday five times, which is the most of any day of the week, but just once on Wednesday Night Hockey, the exclusive NBC Sports Network broadcast (Jan. 29 at Washington).



A rundown of the Nashville Predators’ scheduled national television appearances for 2019-20 (all times Central):