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Canadian television sports package
NHL Centre Ice
is a Canadian
digital cable
subscription
out-of-market sports package
controlled and distributed by
Rogers Communications
through
Rogers Cable
as of 2014
. It is offered by three national satellite television service providers,
Bell Satellite TV
, TELUS
Optik TV
,
Telus
Satellite TV, and
Shaw Direct
and many digital cable television providers such as
Eastlink
,
Shaw
,
Cogeco
and more.
It offers NHL regular season and select playoff games that are played outside the local viewing area using American local and national television networks such as the
Bally Sports
networks and other sports networks like
ABC
,
ESPN
, and
TNT/TBS
. It offers both
standard
and
high definition
games.
Blackout restrictions
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NHL Centre Ice
does not black out any game based on attendance or mileage to said arena. All home teams are blacked out in their designated TV markets. For example, customers in
Toronto
cannot see
Toronto Maple Leafs
games on NHL Centre Ice; these local games are instead available on a local Toronto station.
This creates a significant problem in areas that lie within the blackout zone but are not served by the NHL team's
regional sports network
.
Erie, Pennsylvania
is an American example of this: Erie is in the
Buffalo Sabres
' blackout zone, but
MSG Network
is not carried in that section of Pennsylvania, thus resulting in a total blackout of all Sabres games not carried on a national provider. (When
Empire Sports Network
existed, that outlet did serve Erie.)
Blackouts can be lifted if one team is not televising the game and the other is, provided the non-broadcasting team grants permission.
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clarification needed
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On some systems, WGN-TV Blackhawks games are not blacked out on WGN-TV in Canada even when they are playing a Canadian team even when it's the local team.
Availability
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NHL Centre Ice is available with these cable and satellite providers:
See also
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External links
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