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Rogers has reached an agreement with Amazon Prime to shunt Monday night NHL games over to the streaming service, in a deal that will last for the next two years and begins next season.
Amazon already has the rights to a limited number of MLB contests on Fridays, and this year has already had two Jays' games strictly to itself.
"Rogers and the league said in a joint statement Thursday that "Prime Monday Night Hockey" will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 NHL seasons.
It marks the NHL's first exclusive broadcast deal with a digital-only streaming service in Canada."
A yet to be named broadcast team will call the games on Amazon.
I can't help but think that if Rogers had held onto its original streaming service, Shomi, it might have been able to attract more subscribers with this package. But I've long believed they gave up on the idea way too quickly, allowing Bell's Crave to flourish as the main Canadian streaming service, leaving Rogers with only the vastly inferior CityTV+ package.
Rogers announces deal to move Monday night NHL games to streaming
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