Malagahawks
We tanked hard and got Bedard!! Happy Days!!
It starts next season & hopefully injects more $$ to start bumping the CAP.
Wait so HBO Max is getting the streaming rights is that what I’m reading? That’s really all I care about is how and where and how much streaming will be.
So no more games on ESPN+?
It means HBO Max and ESPN+ are going to find way to make you pay more for exclusive NHL content
Likely means subscription within a subscription
The Hawks manage their own local game rights for all games not on National or Regional networks whose rights are packaged by the NHL itself.
Soho did the Hawks seell tge local rights to ?
Still the local NBC Channel?
What this would mean is that when a Hawks game is on ESPN or TNT theywoukd d need to supply their own broadcast crews....but when it is only a local rights game the local chicago channel that the Hawks sold rights to will still use Foley and the crew chosen by the Hawks to cover their games.
When the games are oart of tge NHL Center Ice package you can buy from some cable suppliers you will get the ESON or TNT broadcasts crews if it is one of thise broadcasts...or you will get Foley et al on the "local" rights games .
So realky not much changes except tge carriers for natuobalkybor regionally broadcast rights games sold by the League.
I get the NHL Center Ice package as part of my Rogers SportsPak.. so I get all Hawks games on that no matter which broadcast crew is television tge game ...However (and I do not know if this will be maintained after the Covid crisis is over or not) during this season therecwss leads choice of broadcast crews for each game ...If it was as NBC game shown nationally or regionally we got that crew. Which was always tge case...but if the game was onlyva local game either homeorxaway,we might be given only 1 option to watch it on Center Ice...we get either the Hawks coverage crew with Foley or we get the opposition broadcast view only with rare exception for a very few double broadcast option nights.
Again in the past CentrevIce gave more double option watching g nights ..Of course I always chose the Foley broadcast ...but now Center Ice seenscto make the majority ofveveningscsubject to the whims of NHL decision-makers as to which broadcast(Hawks or Opps ) will be shown.
In any case I of course wish I coukd watch only the Foley crew team broadcasts that the Hawks control...I hate ...hate watching the opos broadcasts especialky Nashville broadcasts havi g to suffer through Terry Crisp ...insufferable.