How and where to watch the Canadiens on TV for 2024-25 season

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A decade after The Gazette first printed its annual information to methods to watch Canadiens video games on TV, you may be forgiven for pondering there’s nothing new to jot down about. Rogers nonetheless has two seasons to go on its 12-year $5.2-billion nationwide rights take care of the NHL, and RDS’s regional rights deal doesn’t expire till 2026 both.

However then in April, Rogers introduced it was promoting a few of its nationwide rights to Amazon, which can develop into the unique English-language TV broadcaster for choose Monday evening video games for the final two seasons of the Rogers/NHL deal, beginning with the Canadiens’ sport Oct. 14 in opposition to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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In complete, Amazon can have unique English-language rights to 26 regular-season NHL video games (one every Monday all through the season), all involving at the least one Canadian crew. 5 of these video games contain the Canadiens (Oct. 14, Nov. 18, Dec. 9, Jan. 6 and April 14).

The excellent news is that they’re Monday evening regular-season video games, so this doesn’t have an effect on Hockey Night time in Canada or the playoffs. And it doesn’t have an effect on French-language or radio rights, so all 5 of these video games will nonetheless be on RDS, TSN 690 and 98.5 FM.

The dangerous information is if you wish to watch all 82 video games in English, you’ll want subscriptions to not simply Sportsnet and TSN (whose streaming companies are $20/month every, much less if you happen to get yearly subscriptions), however Amazon Prime Video as nicely. Amazon Prime prices $10/month or $99/yr, and in addition offers you free delivery, music streaming and extra perks from the web commerce big. (NHL video games will probably be at no additional value to Prime members.)

The Prime Video app is accessible on most sensible TVs, Roku and Chromecast gadgets, and is an choice on newer set-top bins together with Bell Fibe and Videotron Helix. You too can stream the video games on iOS and Android.

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New this yr, each TSN and Sportsnet can be found as add-ons on Prime Video, for a similar worth as their streaming companies.

What to anticipate

Final month, Amazon introduced its on-air expertise for its NHL broadcasts. Veteran broadcasters Andi Petrillo (Hockey Night time in Canada, CBC Olympics) and Adnan Virk (MLB Community, DAZN) will co-host the reveals, Seattle Kraken announcer John Forslund will do play-by-play, analysts embrace Blake Bolden, Shane Hnidy, Thomas Hickey and Jody Shelley, and Mark Messier may also contribute to the broadcasts.

Prime Monday Night time Hockey is promising pre-game, intermission and post-game segments, and a characteristic known as “Speedy Recap” that may produce two-minute spotlight reels utilizing “machine studying” so individuals who tune in late can catch up.

In addition to the Monday evening video games, Prime Video may also have a present Thursday nights known as NHL Coast to Coast, which can test in dwell with video games across the league. Petrillo will host that present as nicely.

The fundamentals

In any other case, the story is similar as final season. Rogers can have 27 Canadiens video games nationally, together with Wednesday and Saturday night video games. Saturday video games will probably be on CBC if the Canadiens are taking part in the Maple Leafs and Citytv and Sportsnet East in any other case (although channel assignments may change in the course of the season). Some Saturday video games can also be out there in Punjabi on OMNI. Video games on different days will probably be on Sportsnet. TSN has 50 Canadiens regular-season video games, which will probably be on TSN2, and RDS has 60 regular-season video games. Each are blacked out west of Belleville, Ont., throughout video games. TVA Sports activities can have its typical 22 video games nationally, all Saturdays besides Wednesday’s dwelling opener. Sportsnet and TVA Sports activities even have all playoff video games (whether or not the Canadiens are in them or not) and the 4 Nations Face-Off in February.

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The on-air expertise additionally hasn’t modified, with play-by-play announcers Bryan Mudryk (TSN), Victor Findlay (TSN 690), Pierre Houde (RDS), Félix Séguin (TVA Sports activities) and Martin McGuire (98.5 FM) because the voices of the Canadiens.

When you’re watching from exterior the Canadiens’ area (which is all of Quebec, all of Atlantic Canada and jap Ontario), you’ll want NHL Centre Ice or Sportsnet+ Premium, at $250/yr or $35/month, to entry all Canadiens video games besides these out there domestically on a non-Sportsnet channel. (This implies you received’t get entry to the Prime Video video games.)

When you’re watching from the U.S., you’ll want ESPN+ to observe any video games not out there domestically. There are at present no Canadiens video games scheduled for nationwide broadcast within the U.S. on ABC, ESPN or TNT.

For particulars on methods to entry Canadiens video games from exterior the crew’s broadcast area, take a look at our information at hockeyinsideout.com.

The longer term

There’s been quite a lot of hypothesis on what occurs in 2026 when the Rogers/NHL deal ends. Is the Amazon rights deal a sign that Rogers can’t afford the fee? Will Bell sweep in with a extra aggressive supply to win the nationwide rights again? Will Amazon or one other streaming service take away the NHL from Canada’s legacy TV broadcasters? We don’t know but. All we will let you know is we’ll most likely be again to let you know methods to watch.

Downloadable schedules

Desire a copy of this schedule in your fridge or workplace wall? You’ll be able to obtain printable PDFs of the Canadiens’ season schedule right here:

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