Confirmed with Link: HNIC No Longer to be Televised on CBC

[sheed36]

Canadian hockey fans waiting for the likely price increases to soon follow from Robbers to continue watching hockey in Canada.

 

[vokiel]

Canadian hockey fans waiting for the likely price increases to soon follow from Robbers to continue watching hockey in Canada.

It might get cheaper to just watch games at a bar sipping a beer like it's a strip club.

 

[yianik]

I feel like a part of my childhood was just murdered. Many decades ago a young me would spend many a late night sitting in my attic tuning in HNIC from across the border. A generous amount of aluminum foil with a set of rabbit ear antennas to watch CBC on a 13 inch black and white TV.

Im feeling you. Three channels, CBC english/french and CTV. Black and white 13 inch or so TV.

Saturday morning watch some cartoons, head to school with friends where the teachers had activities including floor hockey. Come home for lunch , street hockey till dark. Day would be caped off with the HNIC , Habs ( Dick Irvin Jr my favourite ) and treat night of frozen mini pizzas /fish and chips /swanson TV chicken dinner. A coca cola. Monday talk about Saturday night hockey.

As Canadian as it can get, millions watching coast to coast.

Good times.

Thanks for the memories HNIC.

 

[habdynasty]

What no more leaf games on cbc Saturday night ? Good.

 

[Chili]

As Gary says: 'We love our fans' (translated 'We love $$$$$')

To the over the air, free of charge NHL consumers...'Who?'.

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

HNIC was one of the rare times I would still open my TV. Guess I won't be needing the idiot box anymore.

 

[Whalers Fan]

I feel like a part of my childhood was just murdered. Many decades ago a young me would spend many a late night sitting in my attic tuning in HNIC from across the border. A generous amount of aluminum foil with a set of rabbit ear antennas to watch CBC on a 13 inch black and white TV.

I did something similar. I became a Habs fan because of HNIC on CBC via Channel 9 out of Windsor, watching from across the border in Michigan in the '70's.

I actually lost access to CBC a couple of years ago when we dumped Comcast for YouTube TV, which doesn't consider channel 9 a local channel here like Comcast did.

 

[scrubadam]

I prefer SN feed anyways, but sucks for people who would watch it OTA.

 

[GordonGraham]

Thats one big domino now they have to announce the french rights next season is like 100 days away and still no info



Used to be Leafs on CBC and Habs on sportsnet but now sporstnet will show the Leafs will City tv be the home of Habs (are theyeven still showing games next season )

 

[Noble]

Please tell me this is the end of Ron MacLean

 

[Adriatic]

Please tell me this is the end of Ron MacLean

Hopefully not.

 

[Runner77]

Only time will tell if the roofies get him.

I thought he was done for when he wore vacuum-packed denims on Hockey Day in Canada.

 

[Hacketts]

the demiurge strikes again

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

No more free viewing…

Good times

 

[windycity]

Such bullshit

 

[HabsAddict]

When Robbers got involved my prediction was that games would become pay-per-view "events". $4.99 to watch any Habs game, $9.99 playoffs.

It's coming...

 

[Fish on The Sand]

I honestly think the move is Molson creating a habs streaming app (with in depth content plus games) with their own English/French broadcasters and barring Rogers from broadcasting any habs game including in the playoffs.

Habs don't get to shop playoff rights. They could look at doing something like that for regional games though.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

I prefer SN feed anyways, but sucks for people who would watch it OTA.

It's literally the exact same feed.

 

[Nedved]

This is just going to cost me extra money. I doubt SN will show all the Canada games Saturday nights now. Am I going to be regional zoned out of Saturday games too if I'm trying to watch the Oilers or Nucks?

 

[Nedved]

When Robbers got involved my prediction was that games would become pay-per-view "events". $4.99 to watch any Habs game, $9.99 playoffs.

It's coming...

Can the habs just sell a package and live stream from their website for 100 bucks a year? I couldn't imagine spending 250 to watch all the habs games now.

 

[RabbleMasterBlaster]

The clownish state of sports broadcasting rights is why I gave up on trying to watch anything outside the seven seas. Gaggles of midwits meeting in boardrooms trying to figure out how to extract every dollar they can out of the game have made it significantly less convenient than the alternatives.

Equity Bros are literally ruining everything anyone could ever enjoy. Just look at what they did to Vegas.

 

[HabsAddict]

Can the habs just sell a package and live stream from their website for 100 bucks a year? I couldn't imagine spending 250 to watch all the habs games now.

100 bucks is also my limit. I love the Habs but I'm not spending 500 bucks a year on them.

Last season I had the French Hockey Package for 70 bucks. Great. Hoping to see it again this season.

 

[SYDN]

It was already down to 1 game a week during the regular season. No big deal. Spend those tax dollars on better news or something more in the public interest.

 

[BLONG7]

100 bucks is also my limit. I love the Habs but I'm not spending 500 bucks a year on them.

Last season I had the French Hockey Package for 70 bucks. Great. Hoping to see it again this season.

Get a firestick............cheap on a monthly basis..........all Sportsnet, TSN channels, RDS, TVA you get them all.

 

[Kimota]

Saturday Night Hockey has not been the same for a long time. I liked when CBC had the Leafs and Radio-Canada had the Habs. It was a good mix of watching the two solitudes. "Oh yea this is how they are over there" was my thought when watching CBC. They were a strange animal while no less exciting. Where the style of Play-by-Play by Bob Cole was the equivalent of a horse-race describing. While Radio-Canada was less noisy and more eloquent with Rene Lecavalier and all the others that followed him in a similar style. Showing the difference between the french and english. Then RDS got the gig and while it wasn't the same, Pierre Houde was in the tradition of all the respectful French eloquant speakers while a little more passionate than those of the past. I think we had it lucky in French cause on the english side they never got to replace Bob Cole. But the negative part for people is that Radio-Canada/french CBC got out of broadcasting games a long time ago. At least in english, CBC just got out of it in 2026. Anyway for long while, on Saturdays I watched the Habs on RDS and would switch to CBC to watch Don Cherry. Felt like the best of both Worlds.

Now Rogers and TVA have stumbled into NHL sport. Feels like the rivalries of team between the Leafs, Habs, Bruins, etc... seems like a thing of the past. Maybe all of it was done by design, I feel. This sport is not a part of Canadian tradition anymore. It's similar to whatever any tv show or movie we stumble across on a random streaming service. And this is where this "sport" is heading to. Just ice cold not like a beer though but a World of consummers and providers and money and tech.

RIP Hockey Night in Canada and Canadian Hockey tradition. You Will be Missed.