Amazon acquires Monday night NHL package in Canada from Sportsnet - will broadcast games exclusively on Prime Video

[MMC]

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[jigglysquishy]

Exciting news.

The Sportsnet and TSN Apps are absolutely atrocious.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

Here we go, they will sell Monday night to someone, Saturday to another one, Wednesday to another company, we will need to subscribe to 20 companies, in order to watch the full season, and then they will cry, because people are turning toward piracy.

 

[bossram]

Well, SN sucks ass. So I'm fine with it. Amazon could put a software engineer who doesn't know anything about hockey on the intermission panel, and they'd be better than who they currently have.

Amazon would undoubtedly have a better streaming experience than SN+, which is over a minute behind the live feed, and constantly glitches or crashes.

 

[Breakers]

The war of Mega retailers in these membership's is just getting started.
It's an arms race being watched tightly by Wall-street
Amazon gave a blank check to the NFL for thursday

Paramountplus aligned with walmart and their membership which offers streaming of NCAA, MLS

just trying to gather everything

Target is trying but failing miserably

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Doesn't paint a good picture for Sportsnet financials if this is what they're looking to do.


I do think the future of NHL coverage is through a major streaming service though so hopefully this does well for Amazon and then they pick up the entire ticket in Canada in a couple years down the road.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Here we go, they will sell Monday night to someone, Saturday to another one, Wednesday to another company, we will need to subscribe to 20 company, in order to watch the full season, and then they will cry, because people are turning toward piracy.

So cable with extra steps.

 

[Bounces R Way]

f*** yeaaaaah

can't wait to sit on my primecouch and crack open a primebeer to watch some primehockey on primeday

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Prime is pretty cheap, and includes Amazon's Video and Music apps. The Music app kinda sucks but it's good value, even if only for Prime Shipping.

 

[DaveG]

Prime is pretty cheap, and includes Amazon's Video and Music apps. The Music app kinda sucks but it's good value, even if only for Prime Shipping.

Yep, and even cheaper if you're a student (or have a .edu email address so you can fake it )

 

[Kingfan1967]

Does this sale only apply to Canada , or will it allow Amazon to stream SN Monday Night Hockey to the US ?

 

[Leafidelity]

Amazon please

Buy the entire week

 

[BTP]

If it means 4K then do it yesterday

 

[Voight]

Not a fan of streaming services having TV rights, they should still have the games available via cable.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

At this point, anything is better than Rogers.

Here's hoping they do better than 720p highlight packages.

 

[overlords]

give me habs in 4k and I'll watch on wish.com idgaf

 

[FiveFourteenSixOne]

If this means that I have to pay for an NHL package from Amazon to watch a handful of Oilers Monday night games which I'm currently getting included with my Sportsnet TV package then I'm against it.

We shouldn't have to go to multiple sources to consume the same content.

What's next, Disney+ for Tuesday games, and Netflix for Wednesdays?

Like someone said above, this streaming nonsense is turning into cable all over again, just with extra steps.

 

[joestevens29]

Doesn't paint a good picture for Sportsnet financials if this is what they're looking to do.


I do think the future of NHL coverage is through a major streaming service though so hopefully this does well for Amazon and then they pick up the entire ticket in Canada in a couple years down the road.

Really shouldn't be shocking, they've made so many cuts over the years now to save money that it appears cheaper for them to just pawn games off.

Ideally in a perfect world Amazon has success as you say and they put together something similar to Dazn that gives fans a lot more access to the sport.

I'm also curious if TSN offered to buy the games or not.

If this means that I have to pay for an NHL package from Amazon to watch a handful of Oilers Monday night games which I'm currently getting included with my Sportsnet TV package then I'm against it.

We shouldn't have to go to multiple sources to consume the same content.

What's next, Disney+ for Tuesday games, and Netflix for Wednesdays?

Like someone said above, this streaming nonsense is turning into cable all over again, just with extra steps.

Good thing I have all those streaming apps

 

[trellaine201]

lol Sportsnet trying to recoup their GIGANTIC lo$$es anyway they can.

 

[Turin]

Nice Sportsnet pls go away forever

 

[MMC]

Not a fan of streaming services having TV rights, they should still have the games available via cable.

Not a fan of the younger generations’ primary means of consuming media having sports game rights?

This is where everything is headed, it makes sense

 

[MoreDifferentS]

f*** yeaaaaah

can't wait to sit on my primecouch and crack open a primebeer to watch some primehockey on primeday

Possible contender for "tweet that aged better than any other".

 

[BB79]

I miss when the NHL used to give us free game of the day/week on the NHL app

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

If you don't black games out I'll love you long time

 

[joestevens29]

I miss when the NHL used to give us free game of the day/week on the NHL app

I miss when you were with Rogers you got the NHL package for free and could watch any game you want and could choose home or away feed.

Yet 7 or 8 years later and I feel we are further behind than ever.