A little over one month before the start of the NHL regular season, the league announced the games that’ll appear on their US TV partners during the 2026-27 campaign. With that, we know now the games that will be broadcast nationally in some form for the Hurricanes:
In case you are having trouble seeing the games, they are:
In case you were wondering how the national broadcast choices look for the Hurricanes compared to the rest of the league:
Twelve teams have more national appearances than the Canes, and they are tied with the Devils. The teams ahead of the Canes really aren’t surprising because of their history of drawing eyeballs and the storylines they bring into the season. That still doesn’t excuse the car wreck in Detroit and the, at this point, annual tire fire in Chicago getting that many national broadcasts—but at this point in the national TV contracts we basically know who the networks like showing.
If you’re looking at this and wondering, “Great, what about the other 72 games?” Well, we still don’t know. Logic would dictate that in this age of spacing news out, that very soon the Canes will make the big announcement about their local broadcast plans with the announced Canes Network. They still have over a month before the first local broadcast—remember preseason games are usually just broadcast on the website or using the feed of the home teams’ jumbotron—but with national schedule now set and the Hurricanes knowing exactly which games they are responsible for, we should expect that announcement soon.