A record six broadcasters from eight of the countries competing at the 2015 IPC
Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool have confirmed that they will show
live coverage of the competition, which gets underway on Sunday (26 April) in
Buffalo, New York, USA.
Five more broadcasters from Italy, Russia, Canada,
Japan and Germany have joined the USA’s NBC Sports Group in confirming their
coverage of Buffalo 2015, the most number of broadcasters ever to cover an IPC
Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.
Italy’s Rai Sport, Russia’s national
hockey league KHL TV, Canadian broadcaster CBC Sports, Japan’s SKY PerfecTV and
Germany’s SportDeutschland.tv will show games live on their online platforms as
well as some key fixtures live on television.
The announcement follows NBC
Sports Group’s coverage details of Buffalo 2015 in the USA, which will include
40 hours of coverage at NBC Sports Live Extra at
http://stream.nbcsports.com/liveextra/ and live coverage of the gold medal game
on 3 May at NBC Sports Network.
The live coverage at Buffalo2015.com will not
be available in Germany and the USA, but will currently be available in all
other countries.
The full schedule for Buffalo 2015 is available at
www.Buffalo2015.com/schedule.
CBC Sports
News and live coverage from all
games at CBCsports.ca
KHL TV
Live coverage of all of Russia’s preliminary
round games (except Russia v Germany on 29 April, which will be delayed),
semi-finals and medal games, on KHL TV at: http://tv.khl.ru/
Rai
Rai will
broadcast the gold medal game and all Italian games live online at:
http://www.raisport.rai.it/ and Italian games live on TV at Rai Sport.
SKY
PerfecTV
Live coverage of all Japan games online at:
http://vod.skyperfectv.co.jp/program_detail.php?PI=14507
SportDeutschland.TV
Live
coverage of all games online at: http://sportdeutschland.tv and
http://www.deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de
The commentary team at
Buffalo2015.com will feature retired three-time Paralympian and member of the
gold-medal winning US squad from Sochi 2014, Taylor Lipsett. He will joined by
Brent Pope, who voiced ice sledge hockey at Torino 2006 and Sochi
2014.
Buffalo 2015 begins on Sunday with Group B clashes between Paralympic
champions the USA and Sochi 2014 silver medallists Russia, and European
champions Italy v Germany.
Group A matches will also take place between
reigning champions Canada and Japan whilst the Czech Republic will face
Norway.
Live results, news and statistics will be available at
www.Buffalo2015.com/schedule.
