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The good news is that very little has changed since last year in the way people get access to live Canadiens game broadcasts on TV and online. After the 2014 switch of National Hockey League TV rights from CBC to Rogers in a 12-year, $5.2-billion deal, things have settled down.

The bad news is also that very little has changed. And the Rogers/TVA national rights deal with the NHL and RDS’s regional deal with the Canadiens won’t expire until 2026.

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The one question mark rights-wise in the near future is Rogers’s deal with the Canadiens for English-language regional TV rights. This season will be the last of a three-year deal with the team, which marked the first time all 82 regular-season games were available in English.

In English: Like last season, most Canadiens games will be available on Sportsnet East, and 38 will be available only to the Canadiens broadcast region, which includes Atlantic Canada, Quebec and part of eastern Ontario. The 44 broadcast nationally (more than any other Canadian team) include all Saturday games, all Wednesday games and all but one Sunday game. They’ve also helpfully included the game on March 2 when P.K. Subban returns to the Bell Centre with the Nashville Predators. Gone are Canadiens regional games being bumped from Sportsnet to City Montreal on Thursday nights when they conflict with NFL games. Instead, Canadiens Thursday games until Christmas will all be broadcast nationally on Sportsnet 360. A total of nine games are scheduled for Sportsnet 360, and four for Sportsnet One (including some games on multiple channels), but that could change if new conflicts arise in 2017, particularly with the Toronto Blue Jays, which have priority on Sportsnet.