The Kent-based Seattle Thunderbirds will have one Western Hockey League home game and three road games televised this season on ROOT Sports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The WHL and ROOT Sports announced the 10-game Friday Night Hockey schedule Oct. 6 that will bring live action into 3.7 million homes across five states during the 2011-12 season, according to a T-Birds media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
All five U.S.-based clubs, the Everett Silvertips, Portland Winterhawks, T-Birds, Spokane Chiefs and Tri-City Americans will have games televised.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ian Furness will do the play-by-play with analysis by Kevin Sawyer, a former WHL and NHL player.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Friday Night Hockey ROOT Broadcast Schedule:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Game 1 – Jan. 6 – Seattle<\/strong> at Tri-City, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 2 – Jan. 13 – Tri-City at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 3 – Jan. 20 – Spokane at Tri-City, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 4 – Jan. 27 – Tri-City at Red Deer, 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 5 – Feb. 3 – Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 6 – Feb. 10 – Everett at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 7 – Feb. 17 – Tri-City at Seattle<\/strong>, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 8 – Feb. 24 – Spokane at Portland, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 9 – March 2 – Seattle<\/strong> at Everett, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Game 10 – March 16 – Seattle<\/strong> at Spokane, 7 p.m.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kent-based Seattle Thunderbirds will have one Western Hockey League home game and three road games televised this season on ROOT Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}