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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Here's the long and the short of what I gather.
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday games are all national. No blackouts or regional restrictions.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday games are regional games and may be subject to regional restrictions and blackouts. However, Rogers is going to work with the teams and NHL to potentially lift the blackout regional restrictions on some of these regional games. That would mean we might get to see some Flames games nationally on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday but that is not set in stone and would merely be a bonus. They would still be regional games but with the blackout lifted.
Wed-Sat-Sun = National
Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri = Regional
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I would bet you're not going to see any more national games than you get now besides potentially one on Sunday.
They may offer a Centre Ice 'lite' deal where you can get all the Sportsnet channels blackout free.
But it makes little sense for the teams to agree to lower the amount of regional games substantially. They can earn big bucks selling those rights (as we just saw with Ottawa). They aren't going to start pulling games from that package on a major level.
My best guess - exact situation as now EXCEPT no random regional Sportsnet Saturday afternoon games (which happens rarely now) and a few added Sunday national games.
Wednesday's will be similar to now with a couple of games going national (like the TSN/TSN2 games now) and you may get the odd out of market all American games on SN360/SNone.