NHL on the Fly is the flagship show on the NHL Network in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It carries instant updates and extended highlights of every game in the NHL

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 that night. The show also includes live "look-ins" to games for a few minutes at a time. After all the scheduled games for an evening conclude, a second version of the show, NHL on the Fly: Final, begins airing. Formerly, On the Fly: Final lasted either 30 minutes or 60 minutes, depending upon the number of games played in a particular evening. Now, the show is an hour long, no matter how many games are played on a particular night.

The show was formerly simulcast occasionally on TSN

The Sports Network

The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

 for the national audience when the channel aired regional Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

 action in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. TSN no longer airs regional-only games of this nature.

As of the beginning of the 2007–08 NHL season, the NHL Network is now available in the United States.

Analysts

• Craig Button
  Craig Button
  Craig J. Button is currently an ice hockey broadcast analyst and former National Hockey League executive.- Early life and hockey family :Born in Rochester, New York, Button entered the world of hockey at birth...
  
  
• Gary Green
• Larry Murphy
• Dave Reid
  Dave Reid
  David William Reid David William Reid David William Reid (born (May 15, 1964) is a retired Canadian ice hockey Left wing who played in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Bill Berg
  Bill Berg
  William Daniel Berg is a retired Canadian ice hockey player.-Playing career:Playing on both wing and defense, after a minor league apprenticeship with the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League - with whom he won a Calder Cup in 1990 - Berg started his National Hockey League career with...
  
  
• Bill Clement
• Kevin Weekes
  Kevin Weekes
  Kevin Weekes is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who most recently played for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League . He is now a color commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, and a studio analyst for NHL on the Fly.- Player :Weekes' career began with the Owen...
  
  
• Mike Johnson

External links

• NHL Network website