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Why Monday's Leafs/Sharks Game Wasn't Available on Cable
Forget about free TV or Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC.
Now you can't even watch Monday's Leafs/Sharks game on Sportsnet, which effectively owns the team via Rogers.
Instead, the greed mongers at Big Red have shunted the contest over to Sportsnet+. That "plus" is the extra money you'll have to shell out to subscribe to yet another streaming service. And it can add up.
"If you're a Rogers Xfinity TV customer with Sportsnet, Sportsnet+ is included in your subscription at no extra cost. Anyone with a different provider who's subscribed to Sportsnet can add Sportsnet+ for an extra $12.99 per month.
For fans without cable television, a Sportsnet+ subscription costs $34.99 per month, or $269.99 per year."
This was the first Leaf game only available on the Rogers-owned streamer. But there are another 12 more to come over the course of the season.
In the words of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends."
It doesn't pay to have Rogers in charge.
But you will.
Why Monday's Leafs/Sharks Game Was Streaming Only
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Old news... this has been discussed here before. I knew what it would be and who would be crapped on just by your clickbait headline. Just stop creating clickbait or otherwise forward-referencing headlines. This is a message board, not the MSM.
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I didn't consider it clickbait and that honestly wasn't my intention. There are no ads here so nothing to gain by doing that. Personally, I'd forgotten that this was tonight, and guessed others might have, too.
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Re: Why Monday's Leafs/Sharks Game Wasn't Available on Cable
Apparently they won 3-1. Whoop de frickin do. 
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Re: Why Monday's Leafs/Sharks Game Wasn't Available on Cable
The Toronto Star's curmudgeonly columnist Vinay Menon weighs in with his take on the new look - or maybe hard to look at - Leafs.
"This franchise, which has not won the Cup in my lifetime, should make it easier for diehards to keep cheering."
Stop being so greedy, Rogers — watching the Leafs on TV should be free
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And the backlash continues, as the growing anger builds about the new pay-per-game standard being set by Rogers.
Some fans say they simply will not pay for the 'extortion.' But others have found a new way to stick it to Big Red, as outlined in the Toronto Sun.
“I watched the San Jose feed on my IPTV,” was one reply to our post on X. “Rogers are extortionists.”
And further to that chorus:
“I absolutely love that I have a IPTV subscription that completely screws Rogers. God I love sticking it to Canadian programming."
“Forcing people back to Piracy, if that’s what they want.”
Frustrated Canadian hockey fans irate over new streaming costs: ‘First game I missed in a decade’
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