Imaravencawcaw
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- Jul 19, 2018
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So you subscribe to ESPN+, but they won't let you watch the games that are exclusively on ESPN+ live!?!? What the f***...I subscribe to ESPN+ and use NordVPN. You open the VPN and pick a city/area on the map to stream from, I use an East Coast city for majority of Coyotes' games and then change it when they go out East to San Francisco say. You can watch every single non-ESPN Coyotes' game this way, live or recorded. You can choose home or away broadcast.
For Coyotes' games on ESPN+, you can't watch them for like 48 hours. There were like 8 last year I think. You can set it all to spoiler free easily too. When those ESPN+ games showed up, I'd just avoid all hockey news for like 3 days until I caught up. I'd end up watching the game the next day right after the ESPN+ one came available.
That's the drawback. The other benefit is you can watch pretty much any team whenever you want unless it's the ESPN+ game. I can't remember how Canadian feeds went and I don't remember if I ever geolocated from Canada.
You might be able to find a country that has the perfect blend of zero NHL contract that would let you watch everything because the NHL has no hockey contract there. I am not yet re-subscribed so I can't look this up, but you might be able to get some NCAA games via it too.
As for watching it on TV, you can stream it to a device/TV via those means. I did find the quality wasn't as good so I tended to not cast it to the TV, but I live in Australia and we have DSL still... I did the streaming from the computer to the TV, but the VPN has an app. The issue is that you need to figure out how to put your phone onto a VPN, log into ESPN+ while VPN'd somewhere, and then you cast it. I didn't want to deal with it, but I think it's feasible if you really want to run an app through a VPN on your phone to cast it to the TV.
I was gonna go ESPN+ and VPN from Arizona, but that is a dealbreaker.