Canadiens: RDS announces it will remain the official French-language broadcaster for several years

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Crédit: MONTREAL, CANADA - APRIL 16: Nick Suzuki #14 of the Montreal Canadiens celebrates his goal with teammates Juraj Slafkovský #20, Alexandre Carrier #45, Mike Matheson #8 and Cole Caufield #13 during the second period against the Carolina Hurricanes at the Bell Centre on April 16, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

Next year, there will be 84 games per club in the NHL. But for the Canadiens, it was still unclear how many games would be on which channel, and now the answer is in: RDS has announced that it will remain the official French-language broadcaster for the next several years. And 45 Canadiens games will be on RDS – instead of 60.

TSN, on the other hand, will have 50 Habs games. Why the five-game difference? The question arises, but it’s safe to assume that some of these duels will end up on a broadcast platform. Why? Because Geoff Molson has said that “the vast majority” of games should be broadcast on cable. Does this mean that the five games of difference could be on a platform? Maybe. We don’t know. [content-ads]Let’s remember that 39 other games, at least 34 of which are national rights games, are still on the market. Will TVA Sports and/or Amazon get them? We’ll see.

Several weeks ago, our colleague Félix Forget talked about this drop in RDS games. It remains to be seen whether everyone involved in broadcasting Canadiens games on RDS will also be back in 2026-2027. spacer title=’Overtime’]- One game for Jonathan Drouin.

– Worth a read.

– Interesting.