Rogers to retain Canadian NHL rights with 12-year, $7.7-billion US deal: sources

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 31, 2025 7:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

The NHL and Rogers person agreed to a caller 12-year Canadian broadcasting woody worthy $7.7 cardinal US, a idiosyncratic acquainted with the woody told The Associated Press.

The idiosyncratic spoke to The Associated Press connected Monday connected information of anonymity due to the fact that it had not been announced.

The NHL contracted with ESPN and Turner Sports successful 2021 for the existent U.S. TV and streaming rights woody for $4.5 cardinal implicit 7 years combined.

Sportico was archetypal to study the woody and said owners would ballot connected it this week.

The quality comes arsenic Rogers' existent $5.2-billion, 12-year rights woody is acceptable to reason aft the 2025-26 NHL season.

Representatives from Rogers and the NHL declined remark erstwhile reached by The Canadian Press.

Rogers, which owns the Sportsnet network, was expected to look stiff contention from tech elephantine Amazon for the adjacent NHL rights deal.

Amazon is successful the archetypal twelvemonth of a two-year woody to watercourse Monday nighttime NHL games successful Canada connected its Prime service.

Rogers president and main enforcement serviceman Tony Staffieri said astatine a luncheon hosted by Canadian Club Toronto successful May that Rogers would prosecute a renewal of its rights woody with the NHL.

The declaration is the latest root of gross for the league arsenic the wage headdress continues to climb.

The NHL contracted with ESPN and Turner Sports successful 2021 for the existent U.S. TV and streaming rights woody for $4.5 cardinal implicit 7 years combined.

The declaration helps the NHL's gross forecast for the adjacent future, adjacent if the Canadian dollar is weakened by U.S. tariffs that are acceptable to travel into unit Wednesday.

Commissioner Gary Bettman expressed interest astir the existent economical concern astatine the wide managers' yearly outpouring gathering successful mid-March.

"If the Canadian system is impacted to the grade that the dollar declines, the Canadian dollar, vis a vis the U.S. dollar, we bash everything successful U.S. dollars, truthful that'll person an interaction perchance connected our Canadian clubs and (hockey-related revenue)," Bettman said. "But we're hoping this is simply a infinitesimal successful clip and we get done this. I'm not weighing successful politically."