From tmc1982@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 8 17:57:01 2019
In the 1958 TV Guide Fall Preview, the scheduled NHL games (played on Saturday afternoons) that were to be broadcast were given. Bud Palmer and Fred Cusick handled the announcing duties. The lack of variety in teams is simply because there were only six
teams (two of them in Canada). Here's the list:
10/18/58 Detroit @ Chicago
10/25/58 Chicago @ New York
11/1/58 Detroit @ Boston
11/8/58 Chicago @ Detroit
11/15/58 Montreal @ Chicago
11/22/58 Detroit @ Boston
11/29/58 Boston @ New York
12/6/58 Detroit @ Chicago
1/3/59 Boston @ Detroit
1/10/59 Detroit @ New York
1/17/59 New York @ Chicago
1/24/59 Chicago @ Detroit
1/31/59 Detroit @ Boston
2/7/59 Chicago @ New York
2/14/59 Montreal @ Boston
2/21/59 Chicago @ Detroit
2/28/59 Boston @ Chicago
3/7/59 New York @ Chicago
3/14/59 Detroit @ Boston
3/21/59 New York @ Detroit
Somewhere (an old Sports Illustrated), I read that the CBS NHL package had better ratings than the NBC NBA package, at least in one of the seasons. But, ratings or not, it eventually disappeared because the NHL didn't want the fledgling Players'
Association to gain a cut of the TV deal. So the league dropped CBS.
And Toronto didn't appear because it played at home every Saturday night during the season.