and Joe Micheletti|- |4/1/07 |Detroit vs. ColumbusLos Angeles vs. San Jose |12:30 p.m. (seen on all NBC stations in the Eastern, Central, and Mountain Time Zones)6 p.m. (West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii) |Mike Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Brett Hull, and Pierre McGuireChris Cuthbert, Brian Hayward, and Peter McNab|- |4/8/07 |Buffalo vs. PhiladelphiaChicago vs. Dallas |1 p.m.1 p.m. |Mike Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, and Pierre McGuireChris Cuthbert, Joe Micheletti, and Peter McNab|} NBC moved its NHL telecasts to Sundays after its season premiere (which occurred on a Saturday) for the final eight dates of the season. The nine weeks of games (totaling 22 regional games) scheduled by the network amounted to the league's most extensive U.S. broadcast television coverage since , during Fox's tenure. A new Sunday Night Football-esque horizontal score banner, designed by Troika Design Group, also debuted during the season. The 2007 Stanley Cup Final was also notable for its exceptionally poor television ratings in the United States. Games 1 and 2 were carried by cable channel Versus, then a new and little known player on the sports television scene. Game 1 produced a 0.5 national rating or 523,000 households. It was the 58th best rated program of that day. Game 2 produced a 0.4 national rating or 446,000 households, lower than the 2006 WNBA All-Star Game on ESPN which drew 447,000 households. It was the 74th best rated program of that day. The move to NBC did little to compensate for the series' limited drawing power. A perennial last among the Big Four American television networks, NBC was at the time going through an intense period of ratings turmoil, setting lowest rated week records in several viewing categories over the course of Spring 2007. Game 3's coverage on NBC garnered a mere 1.1 rating (approximately 1,205,600 households), making it the lowest rated prime-time broadcast in the network's history. For comparison, Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, broadcast opposite Game 3 on cable channel TNT, achieved a 5.3 rating, approximately 5,808,800 households. Game 4 achieved a 1.9 rating (approximately 2,082,400 households), down 5% from Game 4 the previous year. Game 5 received slightly less, 1.8 (approximately 1,972,800 households). As a whole, NBC's ratings for the championship series were down 20 percent from the previous season, making it the least watched final in the United States. At the time, Versus was only available to 50% of cable-equipped homes in the