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Tuesday’s announcement that Major League Soccer’s streaming rights will be shifting to the soon-to-be-launched online-only ESPN+ sometime this spring has left Canadians somewhat in the lurch.

When it launches “this spring” (that’s as tight a date as is being offered right now), ESPN+ will bring MLS games to digital subscribers who likely have cancelled their cable subscriptions, along with Major League Baseball, the NHL, golf, NCAA sports and more, all for $4.99 a month. (MLS Live cost $79.99 U.S. for a full season.)

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The catch, of course, is that the service won’t be available to Canadians as ESPN’s streaming broadcast rights are geo-blocked north of the border.

More often than not, ESPN’s rights land with TSN, as ESPN owns 20 per cent of the Canadian broadcaster. And yes, TSN holds MLS rights in Canada.

But TSN hasn’t made any moves to suggest they’ll be setting up an online-only subscription service like ESPN+, even after archrival Rogers Sportsnet launched their standalone Sportsnet NOW service in 2016. (You don’t have to be a cable subscriber to get Sportsnet NOW.)