''TSN Hockey'' (formerly the ''NHL on TSN'' and ''The NHL Tonight on TSN'') is the blanket title used by TSN's broadcasts of the

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. After holding the Canadian national cable rights to the NHL from 1985 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2014, it was announced in November 2013 that TSN and Bell Media had lost these rights to

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and

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as part of an exclusive, twelve-year media rights deal that took effect in the

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. In August 2014, following its loss of national NHL rights, TSN split its singular national feed into four

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channels (itself an imitation of the structure of Sportsnet), allowing the network to air its regional NHL games on the main TSN feeds, still subject to blackout, rather than on part-time channels. With these changes, TSN will only broadcast regional NHL games for the foreseeable future; however, its regional coverage expanded in the 2014 season—while losing the

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to Sportsnet, TSN added regional coverage of the

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and

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, alongside its existing rights to Winnipeg Jets games. The ''TSN Hockey'' name is used primarily as a blanket title for TSN's regional NHL coverage, and national segments featuring its analysts, and not used as the on-air title of the broadcasts themselves, which are branded as ''Leafs on TSN'', ''Sens on TSN'', ''Jets on TSN'', and ''Habs on TSN'' respectively.

Regional broadcasts

Toronto Maple Leafs

TSN began airing Toronto Maple Leafs games regionally, presented by

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as ''

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Leafs Hockey'', in the 1998–99 season, when they first lost the national contract. The package was originally for 30 games, but reduced to 17 once TSN re-acquired the national rights in 2002. Ten of those games were ones that TSN acquired from the NHL to air nationally. The other seven, TSN acquired from the Maple Leafs as regional games. However, TSN eventually came to an agreement with the other five Canadian clubs to air these games nationally. Originally

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and

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called the regional Leafs telecasts in the booth, with

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serving as "''Inside the Glass''" reporter from

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to 2006–07 season, when their deal expired, and from the 2007–08 season through 2013–14, every Maple Leafs game on TSN was broadcast as a national ''NHL on TSN'' game. Beginning in the 2014–15 season, owing to

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's ownership stake in the Leafs' owner,

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and the loss of TSN's national cable rights, TSN began to air 26 regional games per season, split with

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, and aired by

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Ottawa Senators

On January 29, 2014, the

announced a new, 12-year regional broadcasting deal with Bell Media that took effect in the 2014–15 season;

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began to air regional Ottawa Senators games beginning in the 2014–15 season. The deal also included an extension of Bell's radio rights with

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, and French-language regional television rights for

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Winnipeg Jets

Upon their return to the city, TSN began broadcasting regional

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games beginning in

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, under a 10-year media rights deal with Bell Media that also included radio rights for co-owned

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. Winnipeg Jets games not televised nationally by the NHL's national broadcast partners are broadcast by

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, and are available in Manitoba,

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, the

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, and parts of

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. Regional Jets games were previously carried by TSN Jets, a part-time multiplex channel of TSN exclusive to the Jets' market. The TSN Jets channel was a subscription-based premium service, costing $9.95

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per-month during the NHL season, but was available on a free preview basis for the start of the inaugural season. Despite the fee, representatives from both MTS and

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stated that "thousands" of their customers had subscribed to the Jets channel. On August 18, 2014, TSN officially confirmed that the TSN Jets feed would be discontinued, and that regional Jets games would be moved to the new TSN3 channel for the 2014–15 season.

Montreal Canadiens

TSN has occasionally held regional, English-language rights to the Canadiens. Its most recent deal ran from

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through

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. They were broadcast on a part-time TSN feed available to digital television services in the Canadiens home market, with

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on play-by-play, alongside Dave Reid. Bell Media declined to renew its English-language rights through the 2013–14 season, although

TSN Radio TSN Radio is a semi-national sports radio brand and part-time network in Canada carried on AM radio stations owned by Bell Media.CKGM still owns English radio rights, and

replaced its national French-language rights with regional rights for the 2014–15 season. English-language television rights to the Canadiens were acquired by Sportsnet East under a three-year contract. Prior to the 2017–18 season, TSN announced that they had reacquired the English-language rights to broadcast Canadiens games, replacing Sportsnet, and now airing on

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. John Bartlett, who handled play-by-play for Canadiens games on Sportsnet East, also moved to TSN, but returned to Sportsnet the following season. Soon after, long-time TSN talent

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took over play-by-play duties.

Past coverage

National games

TSN owned the national cable rights to the NHL in Canada from

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through 1998, after which what was then called

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purchased the national cable rights to NHL games. Prior to this, TSN's NHL coverage was sparse as they only acquired games

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. From 1987–88 to 1997–98, they usually showed games twice per week through the regular season and in the first round of the playoffs they provided extensive coverage of series not involving Canadian-based teams. TSN was the first ever holder of cable rights to the NHL in Canada, although the task of acquiring these rights were complicated by contradicting statements by CBC that it did own the cable rights to the NHL, along with the involvement of competing beer company

in Canadian NHL rights at the time (TSN was founded by its competitor,

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). With the help of a Molson employee who was a friend of TSN's founder Gordon Craig, a deal was reached between TSN, Molson, and the NHL. TSN's most recent period as national rightsholder lasted from

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. During this period, TSN usually televised three or four games per week during the regular season, with its flagship broadcast, ''Wednesday Night Hockey'', airing on Wednesdays. In some cases, TSN took the American feed of the game (i.e. ESPN/ESPN2) if it didn't involve a Canadian team. During the

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, TSN had third, fifth, seventh, and eighth choices of first-round series, second and fourth in the second round, and second in the Conference Finals. These changes allowed TSN to broadcast playoff games involving Canadian teams, such as at the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs, as TSN televised the

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' first-round series against the

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, the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs when the

defeated the

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in seven games, and the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs when the

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lost in four straight games to the

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. In January 2015, after it was announced that the NHL-organized

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would be revived in 2016, Bell Media attempted to make a bid of nearly $32 million for its Canadian broadcast rights during a blind auction. However, broadcast rights to the tournament were instead awarded to Rogers; although Bell Media representatives refused to elaborate, the company believed that Rogers' national rights to the NHL had contained provisions allowing the company to match outside offers for such events. The

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Canadian coverage of the

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was to be provided by CTV. However, CTV had a prior commitment to carry a U.S. miniseries. As a result, TSN took over coverage of the game in

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On-air staff

James Duthie serves as the lead in-studio host with analysts including Bob McKenzie,

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, and Pierre LeBrun.

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is a secondary studio host, primarily working Canadiens games.

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, Mike Johnson, Glenn Schiiler and Aaron Ward also contribute periodically in the studio. Mark Masters (Maple Leafs), John Lu (Jets) and Kenzie Lalonde (Canadiens) serve as in-arena hosts. Gord Miller does

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for both Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators regional games. Mike Johnson primarily works Maple Leafs games while

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and

serve as colour commentators for a majority of Sens games. In some instances where both the Maple Leafs and Senators either play each other or were assigned a game on TSN on the same day, Miller would call the Maple Leafs game while Jon Abbott would fill in during Senators broadcasts. On Winnipeg Jets broadcasts, Dan Robertson does play-by-play and

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provides colour commentary. For Montreal Canadiens regional games,

work play-by-play duties while colour commentary is rotated between Dave Poulin, Mike Johnson, and Craig Button. Miller, Beyak, Johnson, and Button are also assigned to work the World Junior Championships in January. During their absences, McLennan and an alternate play-by-play announcer would work both Maple Leafs and Senators games, with Mudryk substituting on occasional Senators games. Then-Canadiens radio voice Dan Robertson would replace Mudryk on its television broadcasts, and

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would substitute on Jets broadcasts.

Former staff

The studio hosts were

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(–), John Wells (–), and Gord Miller (–), with Bob McKenzie providing studio analysis. Lead play-by-play broadcasters were Wells (1985–86),

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(–), and

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(1994–1998). Color commentators were Meeker and

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(1985–86),

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(–), and Gary Green (–). Howie Meeker was also often part of the game-night crew, providing highlights and analysis with the

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. When TSN re-acquired the national cable rights to the NHL in 2002,

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was hired as its lead hockey analyst. After the

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, it was announced McGuire had taken a full-time position as a reporter for

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, effective as of the 2011–12 season. Pierre still makes occasional appearances as an analyst during TSN's hockey coverage and on

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(1994–1998),

Pierre Houde Pierre Houde (born July 14, 1957) is a Canadian play-by-play sports announcer for RDS. He has announced broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens games since 1989. Over the years he was partnered with Pierre Bouchard and Yvon Pedneault. From 2007 to 201 ...

(1996–97),

Vic Rauter Victor "Vic" Rauter (born 1955) is a Canadian sportscaster for TSN, having joined the network in 1985. Rauter has anchored TSN's curling coverage for more than 25 years, providing play-by-play curling commentary for the Season of Champions on ...

(2002–2003),

(2002–2014) and

Chris Cuthbert Chris Cuthbert (born September 20, 1957) is a Canadian sportscaster. He is the lead play-by-play commentator for ''NHL on Sportsnet'' and ''Hockey Night in Canada'', since 2021. Formerly, he worked for TSN, NBC, and CBC Sports in a multitude of ...

(2005–2020); and colour commentators

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(1993–1998), Randy Gregg (1994–1995),

(2003–08), and

Ray Ferraro Raymond Vincent Ferraro (born August 23, 1964) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey player and currently sports commentator, broadcaster for NHL on ESPN, ESPN/NHL on ABC, ABC and formerly of TSN Hockey, TSN. He played for 21 se ...

(2008–2022).

Staff changes after losing national rights to Rogers

After the NHL announced that it had accepted Rogers' bid over TSN's to take over national cable rights, news sources such as the ''

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'' and the ''

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'' speculated on where TSN's hockey personalities (such as James Duthie, Bob McKenzie, Darren Dreger, Chris Cuthbert, and Gord Miller) would end up. Initially, Rogers was only able to lure Dave Randorf and Mike Johnson among TSN's major personalities. However, Mike Johnson re-joined TSN in September 2017 after being terminated by Rogers Media on August 10, 2016, and would later make appearances on American television for NHL Network and NBC Sports. Despite getting offers from Rogers, Duthie instead signed a long-term contract with TSN. In addition, not only did McKenzie, Dreger, Cuthbert, and Miller also decide to stay with TSN, but all four started to appear on a regular basis south of the border on NBC's hockey coverage (McKenzie, Dreger, and Cuthbert officially joined NBC, while Miller, who did occasional play-by-play work for NBC since 2011, saw an increased role). Cuthbert moved to Sportsnet in 2020. After

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(a part-owner of TSN) reacquired the American NHL national rights in 2021, the network added Ray Ferraro as one of its lead analysts (alongside former NBC talent

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). Ferraro continued to work on TSN's Maple Leafs broadcasts while appearing concurrently on ESPN until 2022.

Theme song

In June 2008, CTVglobemedia acquired the rights to "

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" after the CBC failed to renew its rights to the theme song. A re-orchestrated version of the tune, which had been the

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of ''

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'' for forty years, has been used for hockey broadcasts on TSN and RDS since the fall of 2008."CTV acquires rights to hockey theme song"
''CTV News'', June 9, 2008 TSN announced on the September 24, 2008 edition of '' SportsCentre'' the debut date for the song. It began on October 14, when the

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visited the

References

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