WE FINALLY HAVE a TV deal announced.
As of October 7, 2021, Premeir Sports announced they once again own the rights to brodcast NHL hockey.
Slightly bizarrely this was announced via social media and not through an official press release. In fact the PS website shows no indication of the NHL at the time of writing.
The initial schedule can be found at the following tweet.
Premier Sports have held the NHL broadcast rights since 2011
Packages to subscribe to Premier Sports can be found at: https://www.premiersports.com/subscribenow
Some games will be shown on free-to-watch FreeSports, which is the sister channel of PS.
FreeSports can be accessed on digital TV and online. You only need set up an account to watch online, no payment or credit card details are neccessarily.
A check of BT Sports at this time indicates they plan to show no NHL games in 2021-22. This despite them acquiring the rights to showcase three games a week in recent years.
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Online Coverage
NHL TV is available to UK NHL fans for 2021-22. The ESPN + deal much talked about on social media is available to the United Sates market only. This information can be found here: https://www.nhl.com/info/where-to-stream
The two packages available are as follows:
2021-2022 All-Access Pass $99.99
2021-2022 Monthly Pass $14.99
You can find the details at this link https://www.nhl.com/subscribe
Blackouts apply will apply as before WHEN a television deal is finalised.
The devices you can view NHL TV on are Apple, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Xbox, Chromecast, Playstation and Amazon Fire. Details can be acquired at this link
https://www.nhl.com/subscribe#devices
All features of NHL TV are too numerous to list here individually so Iβll leave this link https://www.nhl.com/subscribe#features so you can peruse them at your leisure.
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Is it possible that there’s just no deal with anyone this year? That would mean everything is available on NHL Network right?
That would suit me just fine.
Hi Gordon, at this stage anything is possible and I would rule nothing out.
This is good news for people like myself that subscribe to NHL.tv as it means no blackout to some games that would be on Premier sports. It was especially annoying during the playoffs.