Confirmed with Link: Habs sign 3-year regional tv-deal with Rogers

[Adriatic]

I just did a google map search. And good news.... Montreal is indeed in the Habs Regional TV market. You'll get all 82 games en Anglais et en Francais

Hahaha

 

[99GoHabsGo99]

They won't be available to you on GCL because they will be available on TV in your area

Lol WTF, Thats Pejorative Slured... I don't have cable anymore.. Cancelled it last year... So I can't watch unless I buy Hockeystreams which can't run on my computer because my cpu sucks.. awesome.... **** sakes.. Unreal

 

[pine*]

Lol WTF, Thats Pejorative Slured... I don't have cable anymore.. Cancelled it last year... So I can't watch unless I buy Hockeystreams which can't run on my computer because my cpu sucks.. awesome.... **** sakes.. Unreal

No it's not Pejorative Slured, it's actually quite logical

 

[Swarez]

I have to say that for such a large deal between 2 massive corporations, I'm not sure who fell asleep at the switch here.

The head of Rogers was clear when he said there would be NO black outs in this new deal and all the game would be available accross all Rogers channels accross the entire country.

Now we're hearing the NHL is still blacking out out of region games and Habs fans outside of their viewing region won't have access to all their games.

Add to that the fact that natioanl games are on several different channels accross the board and the confusion as to when and where you can watch games adds to viewer anxiety in stead of alleviating it.

For as good of a deal as this was supposed to be, I feel as an out of regioner, I'm getting hosed. I used to buy the french package with RDS and know I would get all th Hab games. Now, I have no idea what to do!

There are no blackout for the Rogers games they paid for on the national level.
regional is still seperate, they were pretty clear about that.

 

[99GoHabsGo99]

No it's not Pejorative Slured, it's actually quite logical

I think its Pejorative Slured that if you buy GCL you can't watch every game... It's not worth buying Cable just for the Habs.. This sucks.

How many games will I get on GCL? None?

Seems like a waste of money to buy GCL now if I'll only get half or less then that.

Blackouts is such a sad thing... This is 2014.

 

[sheed36]

Let me tell you this, if we get the Sens regional team to broadcast the Habs now that the Sens are on TSN, I might die. Potvin and the other dude are unlistenable.

I was thinking the same. No Dean Brown and Denis Potvin please.

 

[optimus2861]

The good news? Get to see (almost) all of the games out here in the east.

The bad news? It's Sportsnet. Their broadcast crews really do tend to suck more often than not.

I'll take it I guess, but I just can't get excited about this entire Rogers thing.

 

[Sterling Archer]

There are no blackout for the Rogers games they paid for on the national level.
regional is still seperate, they were pretty clear about that.

My rationale thought process is being jammed by my emotional brain that hates the new system. Blah!!

 

[Gustave]

I was thinking the same. No Dean Brown and Denis Potvin please.

I don't see how we avoid those clowns. All the other broadcast teams have been announced and neither of them are listed on those.

Get ready for Dean Brown.

 

[Brainiac]

I wish you could purchase one team's games on Centre Ice for a discounted price.

And that would be way too simple.

Seriously, I'm always willing to pay for entertainment. I buy all my music, got a netflix account and all. If I meet an artist I like in a bar, the next round is on me, no question.

But when the broadcaster just seems to make things complicated for me, sorry but I look for other options. I'd be willing to pay for Habs games on TV (and only Habs games) thus supporting the team. But this option is not available.

So yeah, for me it's CBC or streaming.

 

[ThaDevilGirl]

The good news? Get to see (almost) all of the games out here in the east.

The bad news? It's Sportsnet. Their broadcast crews really do tend to suck more often than not.

I'll take it I guess, but I just can't get excited about this entire Rogers thing.

For me it's: don't care, Habs are on tv.

 

[missthenet]

Great. Now tell me how I can see all 82 games from Edmonton.

How can I watch the games in Vancouver that are not national games, use to watch everything on RDS is there hope for BC in either french or english?

 

[BLONG7]

I don't see how we avoid those clowns. All the other broadcast teams have been announced and neither of them are listed on those.

Get ready for Dean Brown.

Brown and Potvin...wow, they are bad...real bad...wonder if they will now become big Habs homers the way they were for the Sens?? Boy they were brutal doing the Sens games...

 

[99GoHabsGo99]

Will Rogers be streaming the games on the website for free like CBC did? (The National Ones)

edit: GCL should really list your teams full schedule and which games will be blacked out before you buy.. Pretty stupid

 

[BLONG7]

For me it's: don't care, Habs are on tv.

This is very true...Sportsnet, RDS, TVA...whatever, it's the Habs!!!!

 

[Dagistitsyn]

That means I only have to watch three games in french this year? Schwing! *I'll probably actually stream those 3 games in English*

I honestly prefer listening to them in French (and I don't have clue what they're saying for the most part) than 90% of the English announcers that are around. Especially Sportsnet ones.. RDS always sounded more exciting to me

 

[Sterling Archer]

How well does hockey streams work and is it choppy or clear?

 

[Dagistitsyn]

I was thinking the same. No Dean Brown and Denis Potvin please.

They are, the. worst.

 

[Agnostic]

Will Rogers be streaming the games on the website for free like CBC did? (The National Ones)

edit: GCL should really list your teams full schedule and which games will be blacked out before you buy.. Pretty stupid

Hopefully without the Chevy Silverado and Chevy Cruze commercials. Ugh.

 

[DJ Breadman]

Sweet deal for us on the East coast...er..i think anyway?
Wish this was all simplified for all to see and understand clearly. Honestly all 82 games to be broadcasted over 9 differet channels? Im in the East and still dont understand if i need all 9 of those channels to see every game.

yeah it's not that great of a deal, I don't have all 9 of those channels so I guess I gotta buy a few now

 

[donghabs98]

They are, the. worst.

I was literally going to post the same video .

I rather listen to the games in French if Dean Brown and Denis Potvin are going to be calling games. I was hoping that they would go to TSN to continue covering the Sens.

 

[GoodKiwi]

OP, perhaps you should add this information to your post.

http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/09/02/sportsnet-habs-regional-games/

This means that the Canadiens’ 82-game season breaks down as follows:

• 39 regional games on Sportsnet East
• 3 regional games on City Montreal
• 10 national games (mainly Wednesdays) on Sportsnet East/Ontario/West/Pacific
• 8 national games (first four Saturdays, most Sundays) on City
• 4 national games on Sportsnet 360 (all Thursdays)
• 1 national game on Sportsnet One (Monday Oct. 27)
• 17 national games on Hockey Night in Canada, channels TBA

 

[Agnostic]

How well does hockey streams work and is it choppy or clear?

On my laptop it's choppy, I have a Pentium I3 and it doesn't have the power for the codec and graphics load. On my Ipad it's nice and smooth.

 

[DJ Breadman]

Let me tell you this, if we get the Sens regional team to broadcast the Habs now that the Sens are on TSN, I might die. Potvin and the other dude are unlistenable.

Potvin is gone back to Fl panthers thank ****

 

[WeThreeKings]

Pretty sure Potvin is doing Florida