Rogers Communications and Amazon.com’s Prime Video on Tuesday signed a 12-year sublicensing agreement granting the streaming platform exclusive rights to broadcast Wednesday night national NHL games in Canada starting with the 2026-27 season.
The deal also grants Prime Video exclusive rights to pick Stanley Cup playoff series and expands its NHL offering in Canada, where Rogers last yr renewed national NHL media rights through the 2037-38 season.
Prime Video may have the exclusive rights to no less than 26 national regular-season games annually, starting Sept. 30, 2026, in addition to two first round playoff series and one second round series per yr.
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The agreement comes as streaming platforms invest heavily in live sports rights, one in every of the few categories of programming that continues to attract large real-time audiences.
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Sportsnet will retain exclusive English-language rights to greater than 500 national NHL games per season, including most playoff coverage.
It builds on Rogers’ broader 12-year NHL national media-rights renewal covering the 2026-27 to 2037-38 seasons.
Financial terms of the sublicensing deal weren’t disclosed.