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CBC broadcasts of the Professional Women's Hockey League in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is a long-running program which broadcasts ice hockey play-by-play coverage, initially of National Hockey League games on radio and later television in Canada from 1931 until 2026 and then coverage of Professional Women's Hockey League games on television from December 2026 onwards. Its roots are pioneering hockey coverage that was carried on local private radio stations as early as 1923. The national radio broadcast began in 1931 as the General Motors Hockey Broadcast, featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs, and by 1933 was also broadcasting Montreal games in Quebec.
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The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams, 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier ice hockey league in the world. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) views the Stanley Cup as one of the "most important championships available to the sport".
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Canada's public broadcaster lost longstanding television rights for Saturday night National Hockey League (NHL) games, but online claims that it eliminated all hockey coverage and filled the timeslot ...
"Rogers Saturday Night Hockey" debuted on Sportsnet over the weekend. But when the games finished, something else was missing.
CBC went into its first NHL season in 74 years without broadcasting Saturday-night NHL, choosing cricket for its primetime sports lineup on opening weekend instead.