{"id":13194,"date":"2026-09-25T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/ca\/?page_id=13194"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:00:36","slug":"how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/ca\/nhl\/how-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch NHL in Canada 2026-27: TV channels, streaming and what replaced Hockey Night in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is how to watch NHL in Canada in 2026-27. Saturday nights belong to Sportsnet, Monday Night Hockey streams only on Sportsnet+, the national Wednesday games are exclusive to Prime Video, and TVA Sports carries the national French-language games. Regional games stay with Sportsnet, TSN and RDS, depending on the team and where you live. The big change is on Saturdays. CBC no longer carries NHL games, so Hockey Night in Canada, a CBC fixture since 1952, is gone from the schedule, and Sportsnet’s Saturday doubleheader has a new name: Saturday Night Hockey. The season opens on Tuesday 29 September with Canadiens at Maple Leafs at 7:00 PM ET and Canucks at Oilers at 10:00 PM ET, both on Sportsnet, and our opening night guide<\/a> has the start times and home openers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NHL’s own listings put numbers on it. Of the 1,344 regular-season games, 652 already list an English-language network: 448 on a Sportsnet channel, 177 only on Sportsnet+ and 27 on Prime Video. TVA Sports lists 264 in French. Another 634 have no Canadian network yet. Most of those, 487, are US teams playing each other, which you watch as out-of-market games. The other 147 involve Canadian clubs and are regional broadcasts, mostly on TSN and RDS, which publish their own schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to watch NHL in Canada: the short version<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Package<\/th>Where it is<\/th>Language<\/th>What you need<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Saturday Night Hockey, from 3 October<\/strong><\/td>Sportsnet<\/td>English<\/td>Sportsnet through a TV provider, or Sportsnet+<\/td><\/tr>
Monday Night Hockey, from 5 October<\/strong><\/td>Sportsnet+ only<\/td>English<\/td>Any Sportsnet+ plan; TV subscribers need the add-on<\/td><\/tr>
Wednesday games, from 30 September<\/strong><\/td>Prime Video only<\/td>English and French<\/td>A Prime membership<\/td><\/tr>
Other national games<\/strong><\/td>Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet 360<\/td>English<\/td>Sportsnet on TV, or Sportsnet+<\/td><\/tr>
National French-language games<\/strong><\/td>TVA Sports<\/td>French<\/td>TVA Sports on TV, TVA Sports Direct or illico+<\/td><\/tr>
Regional games<\/strong><\/td>Sportsnet, TSN or RDS, by team<\/td>English and French<\/td>You must live inside the team’s region<\/td><\/tr>
Out-of-market games<\/strong><\/td>Sportsnet+ Premium or NHL Centre Ice<\/td>English<\/td>A Premium plan, or Centre Ice from a TV provider<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rogers holds the national rights for 12 seasons, to 2037-38, and its deal allowed two pieces to be sublicensed: the French-language package, which went to TVA Sports, and one exclusive night, which went to Prime Video. Each row is explained below, with the full Saturday, Monday and Wednesday schedules, the regional channel for every Canadian club and what to do about blackouts. Every national game now sits behind a subscription of some kind. The NHL’s listings name no over-the-air network for any of the 1,344 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened to Hockey Night in Canada?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CBC and Sportsnet announced on 16 June 2026 that the public broadcaster would stop carrying NHL games after the 2025-26 season. The sublicence that had put Saturday games on CBC for 12 years expired at the end of the 2026 playoffs, and it was not renewed. That ended a run on CBC television that began in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBC still owns the Hockey Night in Canada trademark, and Sportsnet’s Saturday broadcasts now go out under a new name. Saturday Night Hockey premieres on 3 October with Ron MacLean as host and Kevin Bieksa, Elliotte Friedman and Colby Armstrong on the panel. It is a weekly doubleheader with at least one Canadian team in every game. If you came here looking for the Hockey Night in Canada schedule, the Saturday tab below is its replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday Night Hockey, Monday Night Hockey and Wednesdays on Prime Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sportsnet says it has more than 550 national games this season, 35% more than last year, and that 150 games which used to be regional, and so blacked out for most of the country, are national now. The three regular nights are below, straight from the NHL’s listings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n