How to Watch the NHL 2026-27 Season in Canada

For the 2026-27 NHL season in Canada, the confirmed national home is Sportsnet. The Rogers-owned broadcaster is the national English-language carrier of the NHL — national regular-season games and the playoffs — and it carries forward into the new 12-year Rogers rights deal that begins in 2026-27, across all platforms and languages. Sportsnet is the one carrier confirmed to span both the old cycle and the new one. The wider 2025-26 picture in Canada also featured CBC free-to-air, Amazon Prime Video on Monday nights and the French-language and regional broadcasters — but, as explained below, how those slot into the new Rogers deal for 2026-27 is part of a transition that has not been fully confirmed.

Sportsnet, owned by Rogers, is the national English-language home of the NHL in Canada. It carries the national regular-season schedule and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and it is the carrier confirmed to continue under the new deal: in 2026-27 the NHL's Canadian rights move into a new 12-year Rogers agreement covering all platforms and languages, and Sportsnet sits at the centre of it. Whatever else changes in the Canadian NHL landscape for 2026-27, Sportsnet being the national home is the settled, forward-confirmed fact. You can watch Sportsnet through a cable or satellite TV package that includes the Sportsnet channels, or stream it through Sportsnet's streaming service and the participating TV-provider apps. For a Canadian hockey fan, a Sportsnet subscription is the dependable base for national NHL coverage in 2026-27. Check Sportsnet for current subscription and streaming pricing.

Here is the part worth being honest about. Through the 2025-26 season, Canadian NHL coverage extended well beyond Sportsnet — but those arrangements were sub-licences under the OLD Rogers cycle, and they do NOT automatically carry into the new 12-year deal that begins in 2026-27. In 2025-26, CBC carried national English games free-to-air — Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays plus all four rounds of the playoffs — under a Rogers sub-licence. Amazon Prime Video streamed exclusive national Monday-night games (Prime Monday Night Hockey). On the French side, TVA Sports carried national French-language games, while TSN and RDS held regional rights (for example around the Montreal Canadiens). All of that was the 2025-26 picture. For 2026-27, only Sportsnet is confirmed. The CBC free-to-air sub-licence ran through the end of 2025-26 with no 2026-27 renewal announced; the Amazon Prime Monday-night sub-licence covered 2024-25 and 2025-26 and has not been renewed for the new-deal era; and the French national and regional rights sit inside Rogers' new deal as possible sub-licences whose continuation is not confirmed. So we do not present CBC, Prime, TVA Sports, TSN or RDS as locked NHL carriers for 2026-27. If Rogers re-grants those sub-licences under the new deal, the free-to-air and Monday-night options may well return — but as of now, Sportsnet is the carrier you can rely on for 2026-27, and Matchcast will list any new sub-licensed broadcasters as they are confirmed.

For national games and the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2026-27, Sportsnet is the home. If the previous sub-licences are renewed under the new Rogers deal, a free Saturday-night Hockey Night in Canada window and a streaming Monday-night game could return — but plan around Sportsnet as the dependable base and treat any free-to-air or Prime option as a bonus if and when it is confirmed. For a French-language viewer, the 2025-26 arrangement put national games on TVA Sports and regional games on RDS; whether that exact split continues in 2026-27 depends on how Rogers sub-licenses French rights under the new deal. Again, Sportsnet (in English) is the confirmed national home; the French distribution for 2026-27 is part of the transition. Matchcast lists every NHL fixture with its Canadian broadcaster and updates as the 2026-27 sub-licences are confirmed, so you can always see where a given game is actually airing rather than relying on last season's line-up.