Hey everyone, is there anyone currently doing SHL/Allsvenskan coverage with English or French commentary? My Swedish is... nonexistent, but I moved to Europe recently and wanted to try watching a league that lined up better timezone wise. I don't think I'd necessarily have a problem with just not understanding the commentary, but I thought it would be easier to onboard myself to a league I know nothing about if I did understand what was going on a bit.
Thank you for your help in advance.
I’m not 100% sure, but I’ve read that Cmore produces English commentary for international markets, at least for some games.
There was a thread a couple of years ago where someone asked the question of English language streams of SHL games, and I remember not finding too many solid answers. Before I got my Cmore subscription, my SHL fix sometimes came from less legitimate sources where there actually were occasional English commentary, but more often I watched games with only arena noise. I think it might be Cmore (the Swedish broadcaster) themselves who provides English commentary for maybe one game per round, and if you’re streaming from the rights holder in Switzerland, for example, you either watch that game, or will have to do without commentary for the game you want to watch.
From what I’ve gathered, they’ve been airing games with English commentary in some of the larger hockey markets in Central Europe, and the most recent source I found suggested that this is still the case in at least (iirc) Switzerland, Austria and Slovakia, but there might actually be many more countries where the SHL is broadcasted or streamable with Cmore’s in-house English PBP, if some older sources still hold true.
