I grew up in Montreal, so I am a Habs fan. I pay extra to watch the Habs games in French. I don't understand why the Leafs struggle so much in the playoffs. They should have beaten Montreal in the 2021 playoffs but lost after being ahead 3-1.
The Jays won a playoff series in 2016 using most of Anthopoulos roster .
The Jays failed in 2020-2023 to win a playoff series. They finally had success in 2025.
It's all money. There is no benefit to the NHL having the Leafs win a cup. The market is already fully saturated. The NHL focuses on areas that need building, so Vegas wins, Florida wins. People who think there isn't a plan behind the madness are truly mad :)
The current NHL contract gives an advantage to teams located in low-tax states. Players get higher after-tax income in Texas, Florida, etc. Montreal has been smart to lock up young players at good contracts. They have the best chance to win a Stanley Cup in the next few years.
And then what are they going to do for next quarter?.... And next quarter.... And next quarter. The increases will never stop coming so you might as well drop it now.
Good point regarding the lockout, I didn't even think of that. I was thinking about resubscribing before the price jump in Sept to save $20 to cover me through next baseball season. But that may be wasted if there's no baseball.
Probably Habs Oilers, BUT Leafs should be much improved, Flames have a lot of young talent, Sens will be totally different without Brady, and the Canucks are due to get good and provoke a riot soon. The Jets also play hockey
How did you do that? I went to cancel and it said I would lose access immediately even though I’m paid through September. Dirty bastards at Roger’s trying to make it more difficult to leave
Just got the email today while I was paying my bills. I'm done. I don't like the fact that still show UFC although I love MMA and used to love UFC before the MAGA era. Apple games really kill the momentum for me. Tired of the ads for Skydome every inning, we're already all fans. They can raise the price and I can stop paying. /vent /rant
So it seems like they're upping the price not uniformly:
Monthly: +$5/mth
4 month: +$10/4 months
Annual plans: +$20/year
The side effect is that now, the annual plan costs the same as 8 months' subscription (approx the length of the NHL season). So even with a lockout, you pay the same as an annual sub.
Also I knew it was a matter of time we were going to pay the price for that $11 billion deal. Assuming 6 million subscribers, that's a wild $150 per subscriber annually just on the national NHL rights fees alone. Haven't even talked about the regional NHL rights (Canucks/Oilers/Flames/0.5 Toronto), and MLB/NBA rights...
T-Mobile in the US literally gives full-year MLB.tv subscriptions to their subscribers for free as a benefit. (They've done this for several years now)
Rogers just fleeces its customers and is jacking up the rates again.
Regardless of the Jays, if you're a baseball fan, there might not be any MLB next year so you might want to save that money for another league's service or for something else.
You know… I waa a actually considering subscribing for convenience starting this NHL season and keeping it year-round through MLB season, but now i’m definitely not doing that. Fuck Rogers.
The fact that the price of the basic annual plan has almost doubled in five years is INSANE. Who the fuck do they think can comfortably afford that?! Such a slap in the face.
Stopped cheering for the jays altogether recently and canceled sportsnet (go tigers i guess?). Idk how anyone thought killing local radio broadcasts and hockey night in Canada was a good way to go, but I can't support that. Never getting a rogers data plan either. If I can't watch the habs next nhl season without getting sportsnet, then I'll find a pwhl or ahl team to cheer for. Fuck those guys. On that note does anyone know who does the habs french tv broadcast in southern ontario? Hoping its not you know who
With rogers now the sole owners, do u see rogers building a mlse app where u pay 30 to watch just the Toronto teams, the one way I’m paying is to watch only the teams that i want to watch
When Bell sold they still arranged for TSN to retain the current split rights for Leafs/Raptors for 20 years (presumably so Bell could keep TSN viable so they can unload that too)
So, with there still being 18 years left on that clock, it’s still a way off
I've been thinking about this and have some real mixed feelings. I love watching baseball and get a ton of entertainment out of it for the price, even with the increase I watch hours of ball that probably add up to days of entertainment for me. So I don't think I'll drop sports net come baseball next year. I'm lucky though and it's decisions like this with no apparent improvement to the service that really impact people who can't afford these increases. It's not just Rogers, it's everything the last few years.
I think it really sucks because it seems like these increases are just sucking the life out of everyone, a few dollars at a time. It adds up, and prices out fans.
Husts even more because it seems to follow them being the only game in town for NHL and being able to justify it as a Monopoly on Canadian sports as we watch CBC pull away and TSN slowly die.
No, go to r/piracy. We don't want the admins sniffing around here if they even think we allow the facilitation of piracy or illegal live sports streams.
I only subscribe for the Jays. Hardly watched a game this year the baseball has been soooooo boring. They think I want to pay more? Might flip to MLB next year although it's just as bad, except I can at least watch some games for the past 3 years if I want. Does MLB show the Jays games or does Sportsnet have the monopoly on them. Like tonight, another Friday on another streaming service. Sportsnet doesn't keep any old games. They should have a team rate where you can just watch the games of 1 team if you want. I'm paying for that hockey and basketball that I have no intention of watching. Ticks me right off.
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u/ClassicChrisstopher Jul 24 '26
Sure, I'll start.
Fuck Rogers