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Thursday, 2026-06-04
20:00	NHL	Carolina Hurricanes	Vegas Golden Knights	Sportsnet CBC TVA Sports Sportsnet Now Premium

Saturday, 2026-06-06
20:00	NHL	Vegas Golden Knights	Carolina Hurricanes	Sportsnet CBC TVA Sports Sportsnet Now Premium

STATISTICAL DATA OF NHL ON TELEVISION IN CANADA

As of today 2026-05-30, and since this website started collecting statistical data on when and where Hockey matches from the NHL competition in Canada are televised, which began on 2021-01-13, we can provide the following data:

6,132

TV BROADCASTS

632 Free games

10.31%

5,500 Paid games

89.69%

Most Repeated Match

Montréal Canadiens - Toronto Maple Leafs

LAST FREE GAME

Carolina Hurricanes - Montréal Canadiens

2026-05-23 NHL por Sportsnet+, Sportsnet, TVA Sports, Sportsnet Now Premium, CBC, OMNI 2, OMNI

LAST PAY-PER-VIEW MATCH

Carolina Hurricanes - Montréal Canadiens

2026-05-29 NHL por Sportsnet, TVA Sports, Sportsnet Now Premium, CBC

RANKING BY CHANNELS

Sportsnet Now Premium

2,548 (41.55%)

Sportsnet

1,719 (28.03%)

TVA Sports

1,623 (26.47%)

Sportsnet Now

1,377 (22.46%)

Sportsnet Pacific

1,270 (20.71%)

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TOTAL

TV CHANNELS

DAYS

WITHOUT FREE GAME

AVERAGE

3.1

CHANNELS PER MATCH

31 Pay channels

77.5%

9 Free-to-air channels

22.5%

TOTAL

CANALES

TOTAL

Total equipos

Ranking of Teams by Number of Matches

Edmonton Oilers

531 (8.66%)

Montréal Canadiens

502 (8.19%)

Toronto Maple Leafs

495 (8.07%)

Winnipeg Jets

480 (7.83%)

Vancouver Canucks

474 (7.73%)

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Ranking of Teams by Number of Matches on Free-to-Air TV

Anaheim Ducks

158 (2.58%)

Dallas Stars

154 (2.51%)

Toronto Maple Leafs

90 (1.47%)

Montréal Canadiens

84 (1.37%)

Vancouver Canucks

69 (1.13%)

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Ranking of Teams by Number of Home Matches

Edmonton Oilers

266 (4.34%)

Montréal Canadiens

254 (4.14%)

Toronto Maple Leafs

243 (3.96%)

Winnipeg Jets

241 (3.93%)

Calgary Flames

238 (3.88%)

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Ranking of Teams by Number of Away Matches

Edmonton Oilers

265 (4.32%)

Toronto Maple Leafs

252 (4.11%)

Montréal Canadiens

248 (4.04%)

Winnipeg Jets

239 (3.9%)

Ottawa Senators

238 (3.88%)

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NUMBER OF GAMES BY DAY OF THE WEEK

MONDAY

636

10.37%

TUESDAY

1,106

18.04%

WEDNESDAY

593

9.67%

THURSDAY

1,188

19.37%

FRIDAY

557

9.08%

SATURDAY

1,370

22.34%

SUNDAY

682

11.12%

NUMBER OF GAMES BY MONTH

JANUARY

974

15.88%

FEBRUARY

676

11.02%

MARCH

1,078

17.58%

APRIL

774

12.62%

MAY

288

4.7%

JUNE

1.08%

JULY

0.05%

AUGUST

- %

SEPTEMBER

- %

OCTOBER

561

9.15%

NOVEMBER

854

13.93%

DECEMBER

858

13.99%

NUMBER OF MATCHES PER YEAR

2026

672

10.96%

2025

1,184

19.31%

2024

1,357

22.13%

2023

1,328

21.66%

2022

919

14.99%

2021

672

10.96%

RANKING BY TIMES