NHL Network to air Wolf Pack at Phantoms live March 1

NHL Network will carry the Hartford Wolf Pack at the Lehigh Valley Phantoms live Sunday, March 1, 2026, with the American Hockey League listing "Coverage begins at 3 ET/2 CT." The AHL headline reads "Wolf Pack visit Phantoms on NHL Network today! The Hartford Wolf Pack visit the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, live on NHL Network today!" and includes the line "Coverage begins at 3 ET/2 CT."

Timing across sources is not uniform. Reddit’s r/hockey post echoed the 3:00 p.m. ET start, while a game page on The Rink Live lists the teams meeting in Lehigh Valley on March 1 at 2:05 p.m. CST. That 2:05 p.m. CST notation equals 3:05 p.m. ET, which conflicts with the AHL’s 3:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. CT message; the three clock times are explicit in the material and have not been reconciled in the published items.

The teams rendezvoused in a wild, recent meeting on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. The Rink Live recap reports a 5-4 finish in Hartford’s favor after penalties, writing "It was a draw at full-time and not even overtime could separate the two. It took penalties to decide the tie, where in the end Hartford was crowned winner as the game finished 5-4." The Rink Live scoring timeline lists the first period goals by Devin Kaplan (Lehigh Valley, 4:47) and Lane Pederson (Lehigh Valley, 5:33), then Hartford answers with Connor Mackey (10:13) and Adam Sykora (10:40). The second period entries show Philip Tomasino (22:05) and Oscar Eklind (31:35) for Lehigh Valley, and Juuso Pärssinen (37:48) and Brennan Othmann (39:35) for Hartford, with the page noting "Five goals were scored in the second period with the score being tied at 4-4 going in to the second break."

Players to watch when the NHL Network picture goes live include Hartford’s Brennan Othmann, credited twice on the Rink Live page — once with the 39:35 second period goal and once in the line "Hartford's Brennan Othmann scored the game-winning goal" — plus Connor Mackey and Adam Sykora. Lehigh Valley contributors named in the Feb. 28 recap include Devin Kaplan, Lane Pederson, Philip Tomasino and Oscar Eklind. Those names are the explicit goal-scorers listed on the published timeline; the shootout log and official boxscore details were not included in the recaps provided.

The telecast arrives inside the AHL’s Atlantic Division context; the AHL site lists Hartford and Lehigh Valley alongside Bridgeport Islanders, Charlotte Checkers, Hershey Bears, Providence Bruins, Springfield Thunderbirds, and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. The AHL page also carried a disciplinary note: "Hershey Bears forward Justin Nachbaur has been suspended for one (1) game as a consequence of his actions in a game at Rockford on Feb. 28."

The AHL’s promotional page includes a truncated line — "The telecast is another example of the NHL and its broadcast partners giving AHL" — that stops mid-sentence in the published copy. With a 5-4 shootout finish two days earlier and national distribution on NHL Network, Sunday’s broadcast is positioned as both a showcase for players such as Othmann, Tomasino and Pärssinen and a continuation of Atlantic Division storylines, even as the precise puck-drop and broadcast window remain at odds across the available listings.