CBC Loses NHL Games as Sportsnet Deal Runs Out

CBC’s long run with “Hockey Night in Canada” is hitting a hard stop as its NHL game coverage falls away when the Sportsnet agreement ends. That is the kind of quiet rights shakeup that looks tidy on a release but lands like a gut punch in Canadian hockey circles. The national broadcast picture is shifting, and anybody who has lived through these television marriages knows they rarely end without a few bruised feelings and a lot of backroom math.