- Prime Video is the new exclusive local streaming home for six NHL teams
- Stars and Ducks games come free with Prime, the other four cost $20 a month
- Read below for the full list of teams and what it means for out-of-market fans
Six NHL fanbases are about to change where they watch hockey.
Prime Video announced Wednesday that it becomes the exclusive local streaming home for the Carolina Hurricanes, Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues starting with the 2026-27 season. The multi-year agreement with the league covers in-market viewers only.
The defending Stanley Cup champions rolled theirs out first. Carolina is launching the Hurricanes Hockey Network, which streams as a subscription on Prime inside the team’s regional territory:
Not every team’s deal looks the same. Stars and Ducks games are included with a Prime membership at no extra charge:
Everybody else is charging for it. Carolina, Columbus, Minnesota and St. Louis are selling their games at $20 a month or $100 a year, and you don’t need a Prime subscription to buy in, per Sportico.
How all six got here is a story about two networks going under.
Dallas and Anaheim had already left FanDuel Sports Network for Victory+, which shut down after reports of missed rights payments. Carolina, Columbus, Minnesota and St. Louis were on Main Street Sports, the company formerly known as Bally Sports, which folded at the end of last season.
NHL centralized operations took over game presentation for those last four teams in July, so the league is producing the broadcasts that Prime will carry.
Columbus is branding its own channel out of it. The Blue Jackets Hockey Network debuts this fall on cable and satellite, streams exclusively on Prime, and puts a select number of games on over-the-air stations:
Seattle has been streaming this way since 2024, and Prime already carries MSG Networks, NESN, SNY and a handful of other regional outfits. Amazon also holds the 12-year national deal for Wednesday night games that kicks in this season.
Out-of-market viewers are unaffected. NHL Center Ice and NHL Power Play on the ESPN app still handle those games.
Josh Bogorad and Daryl Reaugh stay in the Dallas booth, and the rest of the new setup goes live when the season opens Sept. 29.
