The NHL has reached a two year agreement to air games on Amazon Prime
Recently Amazon, Rogers Communications and the NHL announced a two year agreement in Canada to bring hockey fans Monday Night Hockey exclusively on Prime Video. While the Washington Capitals won't be featured this season there are still some Monday games on the slate. Six to be exact with one at home and five on the road.
David Proper, the NHL Senior Executive Vice Preisdent of Media and International Strategey said in a press release from the NHL:
""We are thrilled to collaborate with Amazon and Rogers on this project. Amazon has a strong track record of presenting sports on Prime Video in a highly innovative and viewer-friendly manner. We are committed to serving hockey fans and reaching new audiences with our robust content distribution strategy that brings NHL viewers exciting NHL content to a multitude of streaming services. With this groundbreaking partnership, we are continuing to stay true to that goal.""
It'll serve hockey fans all across Canada beginning on Monday Oct. 14 when the Montreal Canadiens host the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Monday night slate, per Amazon, includes 21 Canadien team home games and includes the Stanley Cup Final rematch between the florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers on Monday Dec. 16. The complete schedule for Monday Night Hockey is available here.
The following Mondays after Oct. 14 feature the Tampa Bay Lightning facing off against the Toronto Maple Leafs then the Maple Leafs against the Winnipeg Jets a week later. The games will be available at no extra cost to Prime subscribers in Canada. You can follow Prime Monday Night Hockey on Instagram at @sportsonprimeca.
The release also notes that last month both Prime Video and NHL Prodctions annouced NHL Coast To Coast which is a weekly whiparound style show live on Thursday nights in Canada featuring live look ins, highlights and expert analysis of every NHL game.
There will also be an untitled docuseries with Box to Box Films, the producers of Drive to Survive that will give unprecidented access to some of the NHL's most compelling players all at different stages of their careers which sounds quite similar to the hit Netflix show Quarterback that followed the lifes on and off the field of different signal callers.
We think the concepts are brilliant. Fans need more access and it looks like the NHL is beginning to step up to the plate.
