Amazon Prime Video will become the exclusive home of Wednesday Night Hockey in Canada under a 12-year sublicensing deal with Rogers Communications, signed and announced on July 28, 2026 (Reuters; NHL.com).

The deal covers 26 regular-season NHL games per season, broadcast in both English and French on Prime Video in Canada. First puck drops on September 30, 2026. Prime Video will also carry first- and second-round NHL playoff series under the agreement (Deadline).

Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal sits atop a much larger foundation: Rogers Communications previously secured an $11 billion NHL rights package running through the 2037-38 season. Rogers operates Sportsnet, the pay-TV network that has been central to NHL broadcasting in Canada. This new arrangement effectively extends Rogers' hockey infrastructure onto a streaming platform for more than a decade.

Prime Video was not starting from scratch. The platform already streams NHL games and studio programming in Canada, including "Prime Monday Night Hockey," a package covering national regular-season Monday night games in English for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons (NHL.com). That broadcast is led by play-by-play announcer John Forslund, with analysts Jody Shelley and Thomas Hickey (NHL.com). The Wednesday package adds a second marquee night to Prime Video's hockey slate.

The reshuffling has casualties. Rogers and the CBC did not renew their NHL sublicensing deal, ending Hockey Night in Canada as a public broadcast (Deadline). Citytv, also owned by Rogers, is opting out of national NHL game telecasts entirely. For Canadian fans used to finding hockey on traditional television channels, the screen is shifting.

Jay Marine, Head of Global Sports at Amazon Prime Video, Tony Staffieri, CEO of Rogers Communications, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman all stand behind the deal. The NHL published an official release on nhl.com confirming Prime Video as the long-term home of Wednesday Night Hockey in Canada.

For fans, the practical change is straightforward: from September 30, a Wednesday night NHL game in Canada means opening Prime Video. No separate channel, no cable package for that night. A subscription to the platform is the price of entry, alongside whatever Rogers holds on its own networks. Two hundred nights of the hockey calendar still live elsewhere. These 26, plus the early playoff rounds, now belong to Amazon.