TNT and ESPN are going 0-for-October where Canadian teams are involved.
The NHL Network has a pair of Hockey Night in Canada games to start the season. The green of the Dallas Stars matches up with the rouge of Les Habs in Montréal (22). Toronto is in Los Angeles in a late afternoon local start (29).
The U.S. channel will likely carry the Rogers Sportsnet feed on a Monday night as Sidney Crosby and his team comes to Edmonton (24).
The lone ESPN+/Hulu game has the cruel irony of the Winnipeg Jets 2.0 at the very tiny desert home of where the Jets 1.0 went (28).
There should be a NHL Center Ice free preview.
NHL Network
October 22
Dallas @ Montréal, 7p (HNIC)
October 24
Pittsburgh @ Edmonton, 8p
October 29
Toronto @ Los Angeles, 7p (HNIC)
ESPN+/Hulu
October 28
Winnipeg @ Arizona, 10:30p
Hockey Night in Canada
October 15
Ottawa @ Toronto, 7p/Montréal @ Washington, 7p/Calgary @ Edmonton, 10p
October 22
Toronto @ Winnipeg, 7p/Dallas @ Montréal, 7p/Carolina @ Calgary, 10p/Buffalo @ Vancouver, 10p
October 29
Toronto @ Los Angeles, 7p/Montréal @ St. Louis, 7p/Edmonton @ Calgary, 10p
Rogers Sportsnet national telecasts
October 12 Toronto @ Montréal, 7p/Vancouver @ Edmonton, 10p
October 13 Colorado @ Calgary, 9:30p
October 15 Vancouver @ Philadelphia, 4p
October 17 Arizona @ Toronto, 7p/Pittsburgh @ Montréal, 7p
October 18 Buffalo @ Edmonton, 9p
October 19 Winnipeg @ Colorado, 8p
October 20 Dallas @ Toronto, 7p/Vancouver @ Minnesota, 8p/Buffalo @ Calgary, 9:30p
October 22 St. Louis @ Edmonton, 4p
October 24 Pittsburgh @ Edmonton, 8p
October 25 Pittsburgh @ Calgary, 9p
October 26 Edmonton @ St. Louis, 8p
October 28 Pittsburgh @ Vancouver, 10p
NHL over-the-air broadcasts are very rare these days. Even Chicago has all of its games on cable.
Rogers runs into jams during the World Series. The Sportsnet channels will be occupied on October 17 so the Vancouver Canucks are in the U.S. capital on Citytv in Vancouver, which is CKVU-DT, Channel 10.
Not sure if Americans in Blaine, WA could pick up CKVU with an antenna. Our British Columbia readers know that they can access CKVU through cable.
The 4 pm local start means CKVU can show all the American TV shows that normally make up the vast majority of the Citytv prime time lineup.
Sportsnet Pacific has also added the game as well as CKVU.
Tracking the NHL 2022 media changes
Gord Miller and Ray Ferraro are amazing on their own in calling a NHL game. Combined they are better than the individual people. They are the Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier of NHL broadcasts.
Ray Ferraro announced yesterday that he is leaving TSN after 14 years. Ferraro is cutting back on his workload and staying with ESPN. Ferraro spent a lot of time in airplanes and airports for Maple Leafs games on TSN4.
Ferraro will be greatly missed on the TSN telecasts.
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The Montréal Force is the new Premier Hockey Federation women's hockey franchise. The Montréal Force and Toronto Six are the Canadian teams in the league.
The Force will be based at the Verdun Auditorium in Montréal and also possibly play home games within Quebec in Gatineau, Quebec City, Rimouski, Rivière-du-Loup, Saint-Jérôme, and Sept-Îles.
There are 5 U.S. based teams in the 7-team league.
2022 NHL preseason schedule
We railed against the P.K. Subban deal Montréal made for Shea Weber at the time of the trade. The offseason saw P.K. Subban retire and Weber after the first year of unofficial retirement. The fact that the Habs got Evgenii Dadonov for Weber's contract says a lot about the salary cap. The Habs are the last Canadian team to reach the Stanley Cup final (2021) and win a Stanley Cup (1993).
Our guide to the NHL Canadian teams coverage
Excited to get back Kraft Hockeyville winners on the NHL preseason schedule. Rogers Sportsnet (and CBC before this) carried the Kraft Hockeyville games but not in 2022. They do have the national contract and should carry the national games.
The people of Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick, winners of Kraft Hockeyville in 2020 and 2021, got their NHL preseason games. The games, actually played in Gander, NF at the Steele Community Centre on October 6 and nearby Bouctouche, NB at the J.K. Irving Centre on October 8, deserved the national treatment in English.
CanadianCrossing.com NHL coverage
The Winnipeg Jets are without a captain. Carey Price may not play another NHL game. Calgary gained some players and lost a lot of others. Jack Campbell is in Edmonton, Nazem Kadri is in Calgary, and Matt Murray is in Toronto. We don't encapsulate offseason changes for the Canadian NHL teams like we used to do.
The Buzzer via CBC Sports looks at the offseason for the Canadian NHL teams.
Spring is a lot more disappointing for Canadian NHL teams. Just enjoy the fall and winter and very early spring.
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