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Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

I don't think it's a thing in Canada as much. And let me clarify, it's not old traditional blackouts where it's not on tv at all, but a by-product of teams having local tv deals with specialized cable companies, so those games don't get shown on Centre Ice/ESPN or other services. The problem is the only way to get those channels is to have cable, or sometimes satellite, which is quite antiquated in this day and age. I couldn't watch the Kraken games in Seattle unless I had Comcast or DirectTv. I couldn't watch Coyotes games in Phoenix either, and I can't watch Vegas or Utah games, either through ESPN, even though they have the NHL tv deal, as they are somehow local games.

To their credits, the Kraken dumped their TV deal after the first after realizing the aberration, and went with over-the-air and streaming instead.
Interesting.

It's bad enough that the Habs are blacked out here.
 
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