CBC News - In Canada, it’s never been more complicated — or expensive — to watch NHL hockey

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Yes. It is much more complicated. Back in the day all we had to do is turn the TV on Saturday night (HNIC) and we'd get to watch a Leaf or Habs game. Then they started two games on HNIC. That was glorious!

Not complicated but also got to watch one whole game a week (maybe 2)!

If you happened to be in the broadcast area of a local team channel and ponied up the money for cable you could watch a good chunk of those games. If that was your team.

Adding in good TV prices then and now, what inflation does to a cable price back then I'd wager that it may actually be cheaper now than before.

in northern ontario(80's) we had the buffalo nbc/abc/cbs stations and wsbk from boston channels included with cable tv so there was a lot of buffalo and boston games mixed in with hnic