Canada splits NHL regional rights between Sportsnet and TSN, then splits each of those into four or five regional feeds. Which one shows your team depends on where you are sitting. Pick both and find out. For plans, prices and the rest of the channel line-up, see the home page.
Regional rights are set by postal code, so a provider can draw the line a town or two either side of these boundaries. This tells you which feed you are looking for; your provider’s channel guide confirms it.
The biggest change for 2026-27 is not regional at all. Rogers and the CBC did not renew, which ends NHL games on over-the-air television in Canada. Saturday games are now “Saturday Night Hockey” on Sportsnet, a channel you have to pay for one way or another.
Two more national windows moved to streaming: selected Monday nights are on Sportsnet+ only, and selected Wednesdays are on Amazon Prime Video. Neither appears on any regional feed, so if your team is playing in one of those windows, the answer above will not help you — that game is not on a television channel at all.
If you are outside both teams’ regions for a regional game, the traditional answers are NHL Centre Ice or Sportsnet+ Premium.
The reason this is confusing: Sportsnet has four regional feeds and TSN has five, they do not cover the same boundaries, and the rights to a single team can sit with both.
| Feed | Region it serves | NHL team it carries |
|---|---|---|
| Sportsnet Pacific | British Columbia, Yukon | Vancouver Canucks |
| Sportsnet West | The Prairies, Northwest Territories, Nunavut | Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers (not in Manitoba) |
| Sportsnet Ontario | Most of Ontario | Toronto Maple Leafs (shared with TSN) |
| Sportsnet East | Eastern Ontario, Québec, Atlantic Canada | — |
| TSN1 | British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon | — |
| TSN2 | National overflow | Montréal Canadiens |
| TSN3 | Manitoba, Saskatchewan, NT, Nunavut, northwestern Ontario | Winnipeg Jets |
| TSN4 | Most of Ontario | Toronto Maple Leafs |
| TSN5 | Eastern Ontario, Québec, Atlantic Canada | Ottawa Senators |
| RDS | Québec and francophone Canada | Montréal Canadiens, in French |
Every feed above is carried in our IPTV channel list, which is the honest reason this page exists — see the note at the bottom.
Regional rights are territorial. A Leafs fan who moves to Calgary is out of market: Sportsnet Ontario and TSN4 are not in the Calgary channel line-up, and the games that are shown there are Flames and Oilers games on Sportsnet West. Rogers’ new national agreement includes out-of-market rights for all regional games and the company has signalled fewer regional blackouts from 2026-27 onward, which may soften this over time.
Because the Leafs are the only Canadian team whose regional rights are split. Sportsnet and TSN each carry part of the schedule — roughly 26 games on TSN4 — so the correct answer for a Leafs game in Ontario is genuinely “check both”.
The Rogers-CBC arrangement was not renewed for 2026-27. Saturday hockey is now branded Saturday Night Hockey and airs on Sportsnet. There is no longer an over-the-air way to watch NHL hockey in Canada.
No, it is a national overflow channel, which is why it can carry Montréal Canadiens regional games to the whole country’s TSN subscribers without a regional split.
Not quite. Rights are assigned by postal code and providers draw the edges slightly differently, particularly around the Ontario-Québec border and in northwestern Ontario. Treat this as the answer for the overwhelming majority of addresses and confirm the edge cases with your own provider.
BuyIPTV.ca sells IPTV subscriptions in Canada, which is how we have the regional feed data to build this. The tool asks nothing of you and there is no signup — we built it because the question comes up constantly and nobody had answered it for Canada. If you want the channels rather than just the answer, there is a 24-hour free trial. If you don’t, the tool is yours anyway.
Sources: TSN and Sportsnet regional feed documentation, Canadian NHL rights guides and 2026-27 season viewing guides, checked 16 September 2026. Rights change between seasons; if you spot something out of date, tell us at support@buyiptv.ca and we will fix it.