Free access to video of NHL games

[MC Habber]

They aren't live, but they have a bunch of the Habs' games from this year available, as well as some classic games. Apparently it's only free for the first half of November, but it's possible to download them if you want to hang on to them.

video.google.com/nhl.html

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The National Hockey League has annunced a new multi-year video content deal with Google Video making full-length games from the '06-07 season and some classic games available for online purchase on a 48-hour, tape-delay basis.

Pricing is still being finalized, but games are likely to cost $2.99 each after a free trial for the first two weeks of November. The deal arrives after a beta test on Google Video, as well as an offering last spring in which condensed NHL playoff games were sold on Apple' iTunes store.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal is a revenue-sharing pact common to video download agreements. Google will create an NHL-themed portion of the store where the official league content will be joined by hockey-oriented, user-generated videos.

"This is obviously an on-demand world where people want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it," said NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises President Keith Ritter. "Google is a place where we definitely need to be."

Discussions about a future video content deal with Apple are still ongoing, Ritter said, as are efforts to offer live streaming of games online. No timetable exists for either initiative.

buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/10/30/daily31.html

Perhaps not that Hab related, but I thought people would want to know.

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Edit: MC, I hope you don't mind that I changed the subject line. I wanted to make this thread a sticky because it's a valuable resource for NHL and Habs junkies. - M. B-E

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Much grass, MC.

[HFTO]

I'll give the NHL credit for looking at every avenue and for many who don't get the games especially overseas it is a nice thing to see.
Unfortunately in the world of instant replay and all the highlight packages I wonder how well it will be recieved in North America.
For die hards of a team who don't have a sports package it may work but come 48 hours later how many will really bother?
HFTO

[Willie Dog]

If you have Sympatico they have a site you can access to see 20 minute clips of games. It's great because the quality of the video is quite good and you get to see about a third of the game.

sports.sympatico.msn.ca/NHL/Snapshot

edit: Nice to have some classic games on google but why would they put the '89 series against Calgary and not the '86 series.

Also the Habs Red Army would be great to have on there. I have it on DVD and watch it once in a while. My daughter watches it with me and she tries things out when she plays for her team. I'm so happy my girl loves hockey as much as I do.

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

myhabit said:

If you have Sympatico they habs a site you can access to see 20 minute clips of games. It's great because the quality of the video is quite good and you get to see about a third of the game.

sports.sympatico.msn.ca/NHL/Snapshot

Thanks. I had forgotten to bookmark this when I was using it during the last ice age.

[MC Habber]

mrbozo said:

myhabit said:

If you have Sympatico they habs a site you can access to see 20 minute clips of games. It's great because the quality of the video is quite good and you get to see about a third of the game.

sports.sympatico.msn.ca/NHL/Snapshot

Thanks. I had forgotten to bookmark this when I was using it during the last ice age.

It works even if you don't have Sympatico. It used to be that non-Sympatico subscribers only got some of the games, but now it seems to be all of them.

[MC Habber]

Yahoo has live streaming of about 1 game a day, but only for those who live in the US. However, anyone can access it if they can get the stream URL (via a proxy server, or from someone else).

[roke]

Another "classic" game is up. Game 7... MTL vs BOS... 1979.

[jkr]

machabby said:

Yahoo has live streaming of about 1 game a day, but only for those who live in the US. However, anyone can access it if they can get the stream URL (via a proxy server, or from someone else).

I discovered this during the playoffs but it only worked once.

Any suggestions about how to get the stream URL?

[MC Habber]

jkr said:

machabby said:

Yahoo has live streaming of about 1 game a day, but only for those who live in the US. However, anyone can access it if they can get the stream URL (via a proxy server, or from someone else).

I discovered this during the playoffs but it only worked once.

Any suggestions about how to get the stream URL?

There's a lengthy guide that may be a lot more information than you need/want, and may or may not work. But supposedly people post the URLs in this forum.

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There's a guy in the US with a satellite dish who streams several games a night using TVU.

[jkr]

machabby said:

jkr said:

I discovered this during the playoffs but it only worked once.

Any suggestions about how to get the stream URL?

There's a lengthy guide that may be a lot more information than you need/want, and may or may not work. But supposedly people post the URLs in this forum.

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There's a guy in the US with a satellite dish who streams several games a night using TVU.

Thanks. I'll give it a try & let you know how it goes.

[MC Habber]

I can't vouch for the quality of this since I haven't tried it, but you can download Canadiens games here. Supposedly they get posted the day after the game.

[FormerLurker]

Guys, the best way to watch live Habs games outside the tv viewing area is TVU. They stream NHL Center Ice and now have three channels, so there's a good chance that one of their games each night will be the Habs.

I'm living in the UK and this service has been a godsend for me. I've been using it since the beginning of the season. The stream quality is not always great, but it's better than radio.

Download the TVUPlayer here

This website is updated daily and shows which games are streamed each night.

I'm going to PM spidey and ask him to include a TVU link in each game day thread if the game is streamed.

[514tvfiles]

Hi everyone, I posted a link earlier to web.mac.com/ramy121/

I know it is no yahoo or google, hehehe, but i can promise that you will get all the games, all season long

I also checked out www.myp2p.eu/ and it is very nice. only thing is that it usually has the opposing team commentating and not RDS. no big deal for some i know, but i sure some of you rather have the commentating going the habs way ;D

Also, i would love to get some feedback!

Cheers,

Ramy