Rogers Communications and NHL announce 12-year, $11-billion rights deal

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 8:33 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Rogers Communications Inc. and the National Hockey League person announced a caller 12-year statement valued astatine $11 cardinal for the nationalist media rights to NHL games connected each platforms successful Canada.

The statement is worthy much than treble the existent rights woody betwixt Rogers and the NHL, which outgo $5.2 cardinal implicit 12 years and is acceptable to expire adjacent season. The caller woody runs done the 2037-38 season.

Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said the institution is arrogant to proceed its concern with the NHL.

"Hockey is Canada's crippled and we're arrogant to beryllium the location of hockey," Staffieri said successful a connection Wednesday.

"Sports are halfway to our company, and these rights are the astir invaluable sports rights successful Canada."

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said the league and Rogers person a shared committedness to champion serving Canadian fans and the unmatched passionateness that they person for the game.

"For much than a decade, Rogers has done an unthinkable occupation of conveying what NHL hockey, our players, and our teams mean to hockey fans and their communities from seashore to seashore to coast," Bettman said.

The woody includes nationalist rights crossed each platforms, including TV, digital, and streaming, for each nationalist regular-season games, successful each languages, arsenic good arsenic out-of-market rights for each determination games.

It besides includes nationalist rights to each playoff games, the Stanley Cup Final and each peculiar events and tentpole events, successful each languages.

The statement allows for strategical sub-licensing for a subset of the rights, including nationalist French-language and a single-night exclusive nationalist package.