Where are you watching Capitals–Rangers on October 9?
Quick question from someone still learning this 😅 - is Caps-Rangers on October 9 actually on Sportsnet or TSN here in Canada, and what time does it start? I don't want to miss the opener, maybe I'm wrong but I thought it might be on one of the streaming apps too? Thanks in advance 🙏
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No shame in asking, Regina, half the confusion every opening night comes from the fact that national rights get split up here. Short version: in Canada, NHL national broadcasts run through Sportsnet (that's where the league's Canadian rights live), with TSN picking up its own windows during the season, so for a specific game like this one the safest move is to check the broadcast listing for October 9 the day before - the guide will tell you definitively which channel has it in your region. Streaming, if you want it legally, goes through Sportsnet's own app/subscription; anything else floating around free is a dodgy stream and worth avoiding.
As for time: I'm in the Atlantic zone, so a standard evening drop lands around 7:00 my clock if it's a 6:00 Eastern start, but confirm the actual puck drop on the listing too, openers sometimes get shuffled for TV.
Context beats a bare stat.
Sam, when you say TSN picks up "its own windows", what does that mean exactly? 🙈 Like separate game slots or something? Still learning this, thanks! 🙏
Dumb questions are my specialty.
Toque, it just means TSN only gets certain games on certain nights. The league splits the national schedule between them and Sportsnet. So some nights the game's on TSN, other nights Sportsnet has it, no pattern you can really count on week to week 😅
For this one tbh I'd just flip on Sportsnet first, that's where most of the national windows live. Either way I'm parked at my local pub for Caps-Rangers on the 9th 🔥 easily the best matchup that night, then we've got Seattle two days later? My liver says pray for us 💪
In the stands since I was a kid.
Thanks SniperGuy, that clears it up for me too 🙏 I'll just flip on Sportsnet, pub it with my roommate probably. 30th place Rangers hosting... wait, visiting 12th? Feels lopsided, anyone else thinking upset? 😅
New here, soaking it up.
Upset?? Nah, that Rangers defence leaked 250 goals last year, hope ain't a game plan 😅 Sportsnet on, wings ordered 🤬🔥
You don't abandon your own.
Dave wondering about an upset from a team that leaked 250 goals last year is the funniest thing I've read all morning 😂 Short version for the newbies: Sportsnet's got it, puck drop time's in your listings or the app, so stop making the thread do your homework. Me, I'm only tuning in to see if Washington covers the puck line - anyone actually backing the Rangers here, remind me of your ROI? 💸😏
Here to argue, not to nod along.