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NEW YORK, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Hockey League will introduce the first league-sponsored social networking environment on NHL.com called NHL Connect, beginning with the upcoming 2006/2007 season. This new initiative will offer NHL fans the ability to easily create rich, multimedia personal profile pages and share interests and ideas with other users in the NHL community, displaying comments, photos, podcasts and video casts, links to new articles and content, friends or colleagues and RSS feeds.
"We're excited to be introducing NHL Connect to our fans on the Web and provide them an opportunity to express their passion for the game, their favorite teams and players and relive the NHL game experience wherever and whenever," said Keith Ritter, The National Hockey League's President of NHL ICE & Senior Vice President, Business Development.
"We're excited to be introducing NHL Connect to our fans on the Web and provide them an opportunity to express their passion for the game, their favorite teams and players and relive the NHL game experience wherever and whenever," said Keith Ritter, The National Hockey League's President of NHL ICE & Senior Vice President, Business Development.
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