2021 NHL Season

[PalaceGun]

Sylvain Lefebvre won’t get vaccinated and won’t keep his new job. Doesn’t appear to be for any pre-existing health reasons. A personal choice.

Blue Jackets dodged a bullet there. An absolutely useless coach. Not sure why they hired him.

 

[Drunkgoliath]

Avs just let a coach go for same reasons.

 

[scottywiper]

I notice NHL Tv does not list Australia as one of the countries where it is offered this year???

 

[Drunkgoliath]

I notice NHL Tv does not list Australia as one of the countries where it is offered this year???

Correct. Games are offering in Aus through the ESPN app. So you need a Foxtel or Fetch account. I think it's going to cost us a lot more for games now

 

[PalaceGun]

Correct. Games are offering in Aus through the ESPN app. So you need a Foxtel or Fetch account. I think it's going to cost us a lot more for games now

Amusing how with less than four weeks before the new season starts, one finds out about a significant viewing service change via an Australian Rules Football forum. No emails from NHLTV, nothing on their Twitter timeline, a google search reveals next to nothing, mainly unanswered enquiries.

NHLTV “service” is on par with Morrison’s vaccine roll out.

 

[Agent93]

There's a Fetch plan with ESPN for $6 per month. Might be the best option if you don't have a foxtel sub already.

 

[Drunkgoliath]

There's a Fetch plan with ESPN for $6 per month. Might be the best option if you don't have a foxtel sub already.

Oh? I didn't see that. Will look into

 

[PalaceGun]

There's a Fetch plan with ESPN for $6 per month. Might be the best option if you don't have a foxtel sub already.

After buying a Fetch box, I believe.
Murdoch can continue to foxtrot oscar.

 

[PalaceGun]

I think I have found a “workaround”.

A VPN, ESPN+ and a sister-in-law in the USA.

Potentially just ESPN+ at $6USD/month + VPN at $3/month + USA address to pay for ESPN+

How to Watch ESPN+ Anywhere (Canada, UK, Australia)

ESPN+ is one of the top-watched sports channels on earth, and it is geo-blocked to the US. Learn how to unblock ESPN plus here.

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[Drunkgoliath]

Chara signs 1 year deal with NYI
wTf are they doing

 

[scottywiper]

Chara signs 1 year deal with NYI
wTf are they doing

Plugging the hole left by Leddy trade. Then i suspect they'll look for someone better at trade deadline.

 

[scottywiper]

Amusing how with less than four weeks before the new season starts, one finds out about a significant viewing service change via an Australian Rules Football forum. No emails from NHLTV, nothing on their Twitter timeline, a google search reveals next to nothing, mainly unanswered enquiries.

NHLTV “service” is on par with Morrison’s vaccine roll out.

I wonder if we'll still be offered the home broadcasts of all the teams.
That's an important part of the NHL experience for me.

 

[PalaceGun]

I wonder if we'll still be offered the home broadcasts of all the teams.
That's an important part of the NHL experience for me.

Has to be, can’t imagine it won’t be, that would be going backwards.

The relaying of information regarding the change as been horrible/non-existent.

 

[PalaceGun]

Chara signs 1 year deal with NYI
wTf are they doing

Still gets the job done on the penalty kill, probably won’t get found out too often in the defensive system that Trotz runs with, mentor for Dobson, smart pick up at one-year and $795k

 

[scottywiper]

Has to be, can’t imagine it won’t be, that would be going backwards.

The relaying of information regarding the change as been horrible/non-existent.

Laughable really.

 

[RooBoyz24]

Gees they are taking there time announcing a deal for us Aussies.Wanna See the Pens Win another Stanley Cup.

 

[Phone]

For Oilers, Archibald’s selfish anti-vaccine stance is not worth the risk

Archibald is a nice, fourth-line penalty killer in a normal season. He’ll get you 10 goals a year. But for this, the third COVID-affected NHL campaign, an unvaccinated Archibald just isn’t worth it.

www.sportsnet.ca

In a blow to the Oilers, Duncan Keith has decided to get the jab and will now suit up for the Oilers

 

[Phone]

extremely scared to check the rest of Sestito's timeline, but good god this has destroyed me

 

[PalaceGun]

Watching FoxNews and believing their BS is set to cost Tyler Bertuzzi $400,000+ and the perception of most of his contemporaries, and hockey fans, of being a complete moron.

Well played, Tyler.

 

[PalaceGun]

I thought the pandemic was about people dying throughout the world but Captain Maple Leaf gives us his take about “both sides”. Good grief…

 

[Mindtraveller]

Eichel dropped as captain and failed.his medical at Buffalo

 

[Agent93]

Gees they are taking there time announcing a deal for us Aussies.Wanna See the Pens Win another Stanley Cup.

Mate, I don't think anything extra is going to be announced. You're either getting foxtel or Fetch and using the ESPN App, or looking at geoblocking workaround to use ESPN+

I think I have found a “workaround”.

A VPN, ESPN+ and a sister-in-law in the USA.

Potentially just ESPN+ at $6USD/month + VPN at $3/month + USA address to pay for ESPN+

How to Watch ESPN+ Anywhere (Canada, UK, Australia)

ESPN+ is one of the top-watched sports channels on earth, and it is geo-blocked to the US. Learn how to unblock ESPN plus here.

securitygladiators.com

I'd be worried about blackout restrictions in certain areas with ESPN+. The big problem for me is the only folks whose address I could 'borrow' are all in Toronto; if I can source an address in say, LA, then I'd likely only miss 2 games. I'm considering NHL.tv as a "UK" subscriber as an alternative.

 

[Phone]

Mate, I don't think anything extra is going to be announced. You're either getting foxtel or Fetch and using the ESPN App, or looking at geoblocking workaround to use ESPN+

And the press release clearly saying this will happen 24 hours before opening night.

Are NZ and Aus the only two lucky countries to lose what we had before?

 

[PalaceGun]

Mate, I don't think anything extra is going to be announced. You're either getting foxtel or Fetch and using the ESPN App, or looking at geoblocking workaround to use ESPN+


I'd be worried about blackout restrictions in certain areas with ESPN+. The big problem for me is the only folks whose address I could 'borrow' are all in Toronto; if I can source an address in say, LA, then I'd likely only miss 2 games. I'm considering NHL.tv as a "UK" subscriber as an alternative.

My SIL is in Denver.
Might miss out on MacKinnon and co.
Blackouts are ridiculous.

 

[Agent93]

Are NZ and Aus the only two lucky countries to lose what we had before?

Sort of. There's a tonne of countries with no ESPN rights deals for NHL in place that get to use NHL.tv still but everyone else has some form of change based on existing local broadcast deals.

If you look on the 'how to stream' portion of the NHL site basically everyone below 'Star+' are being screwed into an expensive (compared to last season) extra subscription with a 3rd party. The Scandanavian countries + NE Europe need to pay for a premium plan which costs round $50AUD per month more (more than triple) than the basic TV and movies plan from the same service.

That said, they had a few press articles go out a week or so ago. So officially AU / NZ users are still in the dark.