ESPN.com & NHL.com Users Chat With Players, Analysts During March 14 ESPN Anaheim-Colorado NHL Telecast.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000

GO.com's ESPN.com (NYSE:GO) and NHL.com users will have a chance to interact with NHL players and ESPN analysts during a game when the ESPN telecasts its second NHL Rules! game - Anaheim @ Colorado, Tuesday, March 14 (8 p.m. ET).

Visitors to ESPN.com and NHL.com can post questions that will be answered by ESPN on-air commentators Bill Clement, Darren Pang and Bryan Lewis from the announcers' booth while play is in action during Tuesday's game. Anaheim and Colorado players will chat with ESPN.com and NHL.com users in between periods. NHL Rules! offers the only opportunity for sports fans to interact with players and analysts during a game - regardless of the sport or medium.

The January 9 debut of NHL Rules! marked the first time fans were able to have their questions answered during a game. During the ESPN2 telecast, on-air hosts and analysts selected from more than 10,000 ESPN.com user questions during the Colorado-Chicago game. During the February 6 NHL All-Star Game televised live on ABC Television, players answered ESPN.com and NHL.com user questions live on-air from their respective benches while action occurred on the ice.

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