With the puck dropping on the 2026-27 season in just under a month, Minnesota Wild fans finally have an idea of how they’re going to watch their team – and what it’s going to cost them.
On Wednesday, the Wild announced a multi-year local streaming agreement with Prime Video called Wild+, making it the exclusive streaming distributor of Wild games within the team’s local broadcast territory. That territory covers Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Iowa and Wisconsin. Fans in that footprint can subscribe through Prime Video for $19.99 per month or $99.99 annually.
You don’t need an Amazon Prime membership – which costs $14.99 per month or $139 per year – to purchase a Wild+ package, just a free Amazon account. If you already pay for Prime, you still have to subscribe separately to watch games.
The Wild’s approach is not universal among teams using Prime Video. Anaheim Ducks and Dallas Stars fans can stream their local games at no additional cost if they are already Prime subscribers, because both teams’ games are included with a standard Amazon Prime membership. The Wild, along with the Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, and St. Louis Blues, is charging a separate $19.99/$99.99 fee with no Prime subscription required.
Prime Video will carry all regular-season games not exclusively nationally televised, as well as locally produced first-round Stanley Cup Playoff games. Fans outside the local broadcast territory can still access games through NHL Center Ice and NHL Power Play on the ESPN app.
Games will also be available linearly on cable and satellite packages that FanDuel Sports North occupied. So, if you’re a cable or satellite subscriber, you shouldn’t need to change your package. Specific channel numbers haven’t been announced yet and are expected to be announced before the season begins.
The $19.99 price also puts the Wild in line with a broader trend among Minnesota sports teams. For Minnesota sports fans, the price tag may seem familiar: It is the same monthly price as Twins.TV, the distributor of Minnesota Twins games. Other Minnesota teams run at similar price points, with Minnesota United games available through Apple TV’s regular subscription, which costs $12.99 per month or $99.99 annually. The price for the Timberwolves’ new partnership with DAZN has not been released, but is expected to be similar, around the $19.99 per month price tag.
The cost of following Minnesota sports increasingly depends on how many teams a fan wants to watch. A Star Tribune calculation found that following the full slate of Vikings, Twins, Wolves, Wild, Loons, and Lynx games could cost roughly $1,500 a year once all necessary services are added up. Each subscription represents a relatively modest monthly expense, but the combined cost becomes more significant for fans who follow multiple teams.
Last season, a $19.99 FanDuel Sports Network subscription gave Minnesota fans access to Wild and Timberwolves games, along with a portion of Lynx games, allowing them to follow multiple local teams through a single regional sports network. However, FanDuel Sports Network faced financial trouble over the past year, leaving teams that remained on those platforms scrambling to find more stable distribution.
By that measure, landing on Prime Video, an established and widely accessible platform, is a reasonable outcome for the Wild in this new era of local sports broadcasting, even if it means fans now have another subscription to account for.
Full details on the transition to this new platform are still pending at watch.wild.com. With the season less than a month away, fans making decisions about cable packages, streaming setups, and budgets will have to wait for those remaining details. For now, fans in the local broadcast territory can create a free Amazon account if they don’t already have one and plan for either $19.99 per month or $99.99 per year.
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