The single biggest frustration for hockey fans who have moved away from their home city is the out-of-market problem: the games are broadcast locally back home, but not where you now live, leaving you blacked out of the very team you care about most. Traditional television handles this badly, if at all. Streaming the live channels solved it for me completely. Being able to check nhl streams tonight and actually watch my out-of-market team, from a different city entirely, without the blackout restrictions that plague official broadcasts, was the whole reason the switch was worth it. The live coverage came through cleanly on the main television, stable through full games, at a fraction of the cost of the various packages I would otherwise have needed. I tested it across a run of games before relying on it. The lesson for any displaced hockey fan is that the out-of-market problem is exactly the kind of thing streaming is good at solving. When your team plays hundreds of miles from where you live, a service that lets you watch them anyway, reliably, is worth far more than a local package that blacks out the one team you actually follow.