The Canucks and Oilers meet for each team’s 2021-22 season opener on Wednesday night. Here’s how you can watch the game if you live in the US.
Getty Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers Competing to be the best of the rest in the NHL’s weak Pacific Division is the main goal for the Vancouver Canucks and the Edmonton Oilers entering the 2021 season. Their respective journeys to finish behind likely Pacific pacesetters the Vegas Golden Knights begin at the Oilers’ Rogers Place arena in Alberta on Wednesday. In the United States, the game (10 p.m. ET start time) won’t be televised, but anyone in the US can watch the Canucks vs Oilers live on ESPN+: Get ESPN+ includes every out-of-market, non-nationally televised game (about 1,000 games in total), as well as 75 exclusive national NHL games (no blackouts for in-market viewers) this season. It also has dozens of other live sports, every 30-for-30 documentary in existence and additional original content (both video and written) all for $6.99 for a month or $69.99 for a year (or about seven cents per NHL game if you want to look at it that way). It’s a clear must-have option for NHL fans in the United States. If you also want Disney+ and Hulu, you can get all three for $13.99 per month. Separately, the three streaming services would cost a total $20.97 per month, so you’re saving about 33 percent: Get the ESPN+, Disney+ and Hulu Bundle Once signed up for ESPN+, you can watch the Canucks vs Oilers live on the ESPN app on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation 4 or 5, Xbox One or Series X/S, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), Samsung Smart TV, Oculus Go, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet.
