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NBC’s Matt Lauer fumbles the puck: U.S.-Canada game Sunday is on MSNBC, not NBC

By Helene Elliott
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Sorry, hockey fans. Matt Lauer, host of NBC’s ‘Today’ show, misspoke Friday morning when he said Sunday’s preliminary-round hockey showdown between the U.S. and Canada will be shown on NBC.

A spokesman for NBC Universal confirmed that the game will be aired on MSNBC, as planned, and that Lauer was mistaken in saying the game would be broadcast on NBC.

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It will be shown live starting at 4 p.m., the spokesman said. And yes, it will be live on the West Coast too.

(A disclosure: I’ve appeared twice on the NBC Universal show ‘Meet the Olympic Press,’ which airs daily during the Games at 9 a.m.)

-- Helene Elliott in Vancouver, Canada

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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