[kgilpin]

This has been said elsewhere but both GamePass and NHL.tv are good unless you want to watch local teams. Which of course is the primary desire of anyone who's a cord cutter (like me). I'm sure they are prohibited from providing local streams by the contracts they have already agreed to. Here is how bad those contracts can apparently be: here in Boston you can listen to NFL games on the radio, but if you try and stream that same radio station over the internet while a game is going on, it's blacked out.

The contract structure is totally unsuited to the internet-using public. Sooner or later the situation will change due to cord cutters. When it does happen, my bet is that the leagues will have to accept an overall decrease in available revenue. Player salaries will descend. The revenue of these enterprises probably peaked a couple of years ago. And like with newspapers, the product will need to change.