When it comes to NHL Network, you have to pay an ungodly amount of money just to get the channel on one of the few services it's on (Comcast, Sling, Fubo). As long as that poor excuse for a channel exists and the NHL still says that games we put on that channel are blacked out everywhere else, they will never grow the game. The worst thing is it seems like they don't care.
There is like 2 easy solutions to this issue:
1. Put it on ESPN Plus, or Peacock if it's NBC Owned, and I have Peacock
2. Sell the channel direct to consumer for a small Subscription fee a month, like what MLB Network just started doing.