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After an exciting Stanley Cup run, Carolina Hurricanes fans are eager to see how the team responds in a new season that starts this month.
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How they will see the games will be different.
The Canes have had their games televised through the past decade by Fox Sports Carolinas, Bally Sports and the FanDuel Sports Network. With regional networks folding and ending their coverage, it will be the Hurricanes Hockey Network (HHN) with the game production in 2026-27, working in conjunction with the NHL.
The Canes have announced the new regional network will be available on a streaming, direct-to-customer basis through a subscription with Amazon Prime Video. The team has not yet announced the cable and satellite distribution partners, or any planned over-the-air games.
Pricing for the new network on Prime Video will be $19.99 a month through a monthly subscription or $99.99 for an annual subscription.
Fans who are not already Prime Video subscribers will not have to pay that additional fee, which varies from $8.99 to $19.98 a month depending on the various plans. Prime Video subscribers will pay the Hurricanes Network fee in addition to their Prime fee in order to watch the games.
Canes fans outside the Hurricanes’ television territory can see games on NHL Power Play on the ESPN App, or NHL Center Ice.
Canes fans won’t notice any different in the booth. The on-air talent remains the same: play by play announcer Mike Maniscalco, television analyst Tripp Tracy. Hanna Yates will be back as a broadcast and digital host, and Shane Willis will continue to offer analysis in pregame and postgame.
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Behind the scenes, Mike Sundheim, the team’s vice president of communications, will manage the network’s production, distribution, sales and marketing.
Hurricanes Hockey Network is owned by Hurricanes Holdings. The Canes are one of six NHL teams that will have their own networks this season.
The Canes’ 84-game season begins Sept. 29 with a home game against the Florida Panthers, with the Canes set to raise the 2026 Stanley Cup banner.
The Hurricanes will have a new head trainer in the 2026-27 season, the team announced Friday, as Doug Bennett is stepping down after 16 years in the organization — the past nine as head trainer.
The Canes said Bennett will be replaced by Donnie Fuller, who spent 16 years as head athletic trainer for the Minnesota Wild and has worked with the U.S. Men’s National Team. Yuji Katsuta has been hired as assistant athletic trainer/massage therapist. Katsuat worked at Duke the past eight years.
In other personnel changes announced Friday, former Canes goalie Cam Ward was named an assistant goalie development coach. Ward will work with goaltending prospects who are on loan to the team’s ECHL affiliate in Greensboro.
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