NHL Playoff Round 1 Television Schedule; Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens Kickoff on NHL Network

Happy Playoff Start Day, everybody!

While the Dallas Stars aren't in it this season, I'm sure you're all going to watch the best part of the NHL season as the playoffs get underway tonight.

We will be throwing up general gameday threads to chat playoffs each night. Later today, we'll give you the DBD staff's playoff predictions in round 1. Until then, we thought you might want to plan our your next couple of weeks worth of television watching, as most nights will feature action-packed series play.

Here's each matchup and their television schedule throughout the first round. Make sure to bookmark this page, it'll come in handy later! Also fun fact: you can stream all of the playoff games if you have NBC as part of your cable package on NBCSN's network website.