TORONTO – As if Rogers isn’t serving up enough hockey, Sportsnet’s coverage of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) kicks off Monday.
As Cartt.ca reported in February, Sportsnet signed a 12-year partnership extension with the development league through the 2025-26 CHL season, continuing its hold as the exclusive broadcaster of the CHL and the Memorial Cup in Canada. The new agreement also includes multimedia rights for television, online and mobile.
Sportsnet’s coverage will include more than 50 games in 2014-15, including the return of Friday Night Hockey every week of the regular season and playoffs, 11 Sunday afternoon matchups, as well as the 2015 BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospect Game (January 22, 2015), Subway Super Series (November 10 to 20) and the 2015 MasterCard Memorial Cup, taking place in Quebec City from May 21 to 31, 2015.
The Canadian Hockey League is the world’s largest development hockey league with 52 Canadian and eight American teams participating in the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League. Sportsnet has been broadcasting CHL games since the network’s inception in 1998.
