{"id":632647,"date":"2026-07-28T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/632647\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:51:15","slug":"amazon-gets-exclusive-rights-to-wednesday-night-games-three-playoff-series-in-both-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/632647\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon gets exclusive rights to Wednesday night games, three playoff series in both languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Prime Video <a href=\"https:\/\/about.rogers.com\/news-ideas\/rogers-and-prime-video-announce-12-year-sublicensing-agreement-for-nhl-rights-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced Tuesday<\/a> it has secured exclusive rights to Wednesday night National Hockey League games, two first-round playoff series and one second-round playoff series through a sublicensing agreement with Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-year deal matches the one Rogers announced with the NHL that begins this coming season and will include at least 26 regular-season NHL games, with several Canadiens games among them.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens are scheduled to play seven Wednesday evening games next season with 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. starts, plus an additional three Wednesday late-night game against western opponents. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/affaires\/medias\/2026-07-21\/diffusion-du-canadien-en-francais\/tva-sports-presentera-32-matchs-et-amazon-7.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">La Presse reported last week<\/a> that seven Canadiens regular-season games would be part of Amazon\u2019s deal.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal between Rogers and Amazon were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>With the 45 regional games broadcast on RDS, this leaves 32 Canadiens games unaccounted for in French next season, the first with an 84-game schedule. La Presse reported TVA would carry all 32 of them and that announcement of a deal was imminent.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon carried Monday evening games in English for the past two seasons through a previous sublicensing deal with Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Video announced Tuesday it has secured exclusive rights to Wednesday night National Hockey League games, two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[265,5,264,21,5147,4],"class_list":["post-632647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-canadiens","tag-hockey","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116998641018686770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}